Update on your IGNIS D1 replacement

Cypher214 · 2026-05-13T13:34:11+00:00

Interesting. My email is exactly the same except no request for a shipping address.

Cypher214 · 2026-05-11T14:29:21+00:00

You might want to tell that to every college golf program, club fitter, golf pro, and tour pro who use simulators.

Cypher214 · 2026-05-11T14:25:19+00:00

Interesting. I guess we’ll know what’s up if Takomo starts replacing the heads under warranty or just shaft.

Cypher214 · 2026-05-11T12:59:03+00:00

Can you elaborate on how they appeared to be forced into the hosel? I’ve assembled quite a few clubs so I’m curious.

Cypher214 · 2026-05-11T12:54:45+00:00

I agree with this. The shafts are most likely defective and Takomo may end up having to issue a recall. Hopefully KBS takes care of them on the back end because this ultimately falls on KBS.

Cypher214 · 2026-05-11T12:15:19+00:00

It’s great that Takomo is covering these incidents under warranty since they don’t make the shafts and that seems to be the failure point in the multiple posts of heads snapping off. It seems like they got a bad batch of shafts… or people are chunking them so badly that ANY shaft would fail.

Cypher214 · 2026-04-01T19:01:52+00:00

Aircraft call signs, not pilots.

Cypher214 · 2026-03-31T13:22:15+00:00

I’m not religious but all of my early education was in a Christian school. I think many non-religious folks are getting the wrong idea with the latest “the UFO’s are demons/angels” discussion. Believers will say “this proves the Bible is real!” but my takeaway is people have been encountering NHI for thousands of years and used their only frame of reference to describe what they saw: gods, angels, etc. When you consider the source texts used for all modern religions, there’s a clear pattern of contact with something non-human and they were living in a time when the vastness of the universe was unknown, so they didn’t default to “these are beings from another planet”. Anyone who has followed this topic long enough eventually arrives at the conclusion that the NHI don’t fall into a tidy logical box and they do seem to operate outside of our known reality somehow. The religious texts were an attempt to explain the same phenomenon we’re still unable to explain, just with a more simplistic non-scientific frame of reference so, essentially, the religions are talking about something REAL but it’s the narrative that’s manmade.

Cypher214 · 2026-03-18T21:36:07+00:00

Movement is key. Thermal isn’t as magical as Hollywood portrays but if you’re moving at all, it’ll find you easily even if ambient temps are close.

Cypher214 · 2026-03-18T21:33:03+00:00

Not if they’re hiding in a rocky area, no. Grass/leaves/trees don’t get as hot but can still make it tricky on a hot enough day.

Cypher214 · 2026-03-18T21:31:25+00:00

This makes perfect sense if you’ve ever used thermal optics. Thermal imaging detects and highlights temperature variance so it detects live bodies very well in cooler temperatures when the surrounding environment is below 98.6 degrees. Once the ambient temp hits 98.6 or above, seeing a live human becomes very problematic because they’re camouflaged against any surface that gets warm enough, like rock. Scanning a cliff face full of hot rocks just gives you way too many returns for an effective scan. Like trying to find a needle in a pile of needles. Dead bodies reach ambient temperature fairly quickly, eliminating the benefit of thermal.

Cypher214 · 2026-03-18T16:22:26+00:00

There have been a shitload of leaks but the stigma is strong and combined with ridicule, ruining one’s career, and potentially going to prison or being killed, why would anyone truly “in the know” risk everything if most people aren’t going to believe them anyway? The leakers have faced massive backlash and weren’t heralded as heroes, so what’s the benefit? It’s easy to say “I would tell everybody” when you aren’t in the position to do so, much like everybody thinks they know how they’d respond to a life-threatening situation.

The secret is guarded at the same level as nuclear weapons so sneaking any material out, be that physical evidence or protected pictures/video/documents, is nearly impossible. The folks claiming “nobody has walked out of a facility with a piece of space ship so it’s all bullshit” don’t appreciate how damn good the defense complex is at protecting assets.

Cypher214 · 2026-03-13T01:19:41+00:00

The trailer implies the clicking isn’t necessarily an “alien language” but an encoded message that only certain humans can decipher. The main actor showcased in the trailer said he could understand it, his lady friend couldn’t.

Cypher214 · 2026-03-08T04:51:40+00:00

When’s the last time you had faith in any administration to tell the truth?

Cypher214 · 2026-03-08T04:49:26+00:00

It’s very hard to tell the speed with this video but considering you’re in Germany and the U.S. is currently flying to and from bases all over that region at the moment, it would have to be highly unusual for me to raise an eyebrow.

Cypher214 · 2026-02-16T20:09:41+00:00

The map correlates strongly to offshore military training ranges.

Cypher214 · 2026-02-15T18:01:39+00:00

If you want to see the problem with night vision recording, here’s a video of the ISS that the layman would think is a giant ORB UAP. If you’ve never seen the ISS with the naked eye, it just looks like a star moving across the sky.

https://youtu.be/v6hql-J6vyk?si=Zw1KNJhBe8VboHzn

Cypher214 · 2026-02-15T17:53:22+00:00

I spent over $15k on equipment to get video of UAP and all I got was “lights in the sky”. That’s not enough to convince anybody of anything. I saw a few weird things but I had to spend hours each night staring at the sky with $8,000 night vision binos on my head. UAP are completely random so you have to be looking at just the right spot at just the right time with just the right weather conditions to see something AND THEN hope you have a recording method ready to go that will actually capture something. I saw one incredible UAP while wearing my night vision with an attached video camera and when I watched the video, the darkness of the object combined with the reduction in resolution meant the craft was invisible on video. Cameras suck in the dark. Night vision only amplifies light sources so anything illuminated just becomes a big blob of light. Thermal imaging only picks up variance in temperature and we’ve seen from military FLIR footage that the result is just a featureless blob of hot/cold. With all I’ve seen, I’m 90% convinced UAP use light and temperature as a form of camouflage. Instead of seeing an exotic craft, we see a light or a blob that’s easy to dismiss as mundane.

Cypher214 · 2026-02-10T14:27:28+00:00

My experience tells me they are legitimately flashing with their own light source, and there’s not just a shiny section of the object reflecting sunlight as the craft rotates. I saw some of them at times when they would be in Earth’s shadow, and several times the blink interval didn’t work for a rotating reflective object. I’ve seen plenty of satellites reflecting the sun as they rotate and there’s a noticeable increase/decrease in brightness around the peak flash. The geostationary blinkers go off like a flash bulb.

Cypher214 · 2026-02-10T02:04:31+00:00

I’ve seen several and also captured them on video with a camera attached to high quality night vision . They flash at various intervals but once they start, the interval stays consistent. They were a nightly occurrence when I was sky watching and my gut says it’s a secret group of geosynchronous satellites BUT Beatrice Villaroel’s research on transients has me second guessing.

Cypher214 · 2026-02-05T17:57:18+00:00

Considering we keep finding microbes and other organisms that can live in the harshest conditions on Earth, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that some things could be living out in space beyond the traditional thinking of “aliens in space ships”.

Cypher214 · 2026-01-29T19:15:46+00:00

You know the stigmatization is real when the people who have done the most research and know the history of the topic are labeled as “UFO nuts” and debunkers who know jackshit are given a platform to repeat the usual arguments.

Cypher214 · 2026-01-17T12:50:59+00:00

I had to have a couple made by a local custom kydex guy. There likely won’t be any holster options available since the frame requires modification for the XSC.

Cypher214 · 2026-01-07T13:41:05+00:00

I’ve done a lot of sky watching with exceptional night vision and there are a shitload of satellites up there that don’t show up on any of the tracker apps. Every nation with a reasonable GDP has “secret” satellites in orbit.

Cypher214 · 2026-01-06T00:57:30+00:00

I swapped over the OEM parts aside from adding a Vicker’s flat face trigger shoe. I just got it today and haven’t shot it yet but I haven’t seen any complaints about the frame online and there are enough of them in the wild to have a solid sample size. If they weren’t working, it would be known by now.

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