Jash
Flashlight Enthusiast
So I'll admit, I'm a lumens junkie. I don't care about tint, beam quality and that stuff all the time. Sometimes I just want lotsa lumens. Now I don't own any of the big hitters, but to the mere mortals out there in the dark most of my lights are insanely bright.
A little story of what happened tonight. I took the dog for a walk as I do 4-5 times a week. My route takes me through dark parkland, semi-lit streets and back into dark parkland. It's a fairly safe area and in the 14 years I've been walking these streets I've never had a problem or felt unsafe.
Anyway, I was walking tonight and decided to take my Mac's Customs modified maglite, the SST-50 drop-in. As I was walking I came upon a stretch of poorly lit road walking with my light off but set to high mode. Another walker on the opposite side of the road was walking with a flashlight that was throwy, but only made what looked like about 30-50 lumens.
As I got within about 40 metres of this guy he shone his light at me and kept in on me which I thought was a bit rude as I'm just a guy walking his dog, so what to do? Well I lifted my modded maglite upon my shoulder, pointed it straight at him and hit the fire button at about 30 metres.
Lit him up like daylight and he nearly fell over. I gave him about a two second blast, switched it off and kept walking. I heard the faint sound of swearing but really, I don't care.
These mere mortals, will they ever learn...
A little story of what happened tonight. I took the dog for a walk as I do 4-5 times a week. My route takes me through dark parkland, semi-lit streets and back into dark parkland. It's a fairly safe area and in the 14 years I've been walking these streets I've never had a problem or felt unsafe.
Anyway, I was walking tonight and decided to take my Mac's Customs modified maglite, the SST-50 drop-in. As I was walking I came upon a stretch of poorly lit road walking with my light off but set to high mode. Another walker on the opposite side of the road was walking with a flashlight that was throwy, but only made what looked like about 30-50 lumens.
As I got within about 40 metres of this guy he shone his light at me and kept in on me which I thought was a bit rude as I'm just a guy walking his dog, so what to do? Well I lifted my modded maglite upon my shoulder, pointed it straight at him and hit the fire button at about 30 metres.
Lit him up like daylight and he nearly fell over. I gave him about a two second blast, switched it off and kept walking. I heard the faint sound of swearing but really, I don't care.
These mere mortals, will they ever learn...