Templar223
Newly Enlightened
I'm a relatively new CPF flashaholic, although I've enjoyed collecting the latest "stock" flashlights for years. Only recently have I learned of the envelope-pushing abilities of flashlight uber-techies.
Anyway, got a Mag85 (or a Mag951-II as Juancho / Black Bear likes to call it) for my first "super light."
Yeah, it's really, really bright. Blindingly bright... It shines nicely on ceilings and on walls, but I had a chance on Christmas Eve to use it like it deserves to be used.
I was coming back to my girlfriend's place in the "not always such a nice part of town" when I noticed four guys running away from a house, hiding behind bushes and running through people's front yards. Now, it's 11:00pm and the thing that really caught my attention was the guy carrying the one-gallon can of gasoline.
I took a second run around the block and saw many more people converging on a house near where the four guys had been running away from earlier. I pulled into my gf's driveway and she stuck her head out of the door and told me she just confonted a man trying to climb over her 4' fence on the side of the house.
I grabbed the Mag951 and called 9-1-1 on my cell phone. I walked two houses down and stood behind a large tree and reported what happened and described what had now turned into some sort of melee. About a dozen men and boys were in front of a house, with three sets of people fighting and several more throwing snow or ice balls at the front of the house in an apparent effort to break the windows (cops later tell me this was a suspected crack house).
The 9-1-1 dispatcher said the cops were in the area when a neighbor came out and told the thugs to get the hell out of there. Some of the thugs began hurling rude comments like "F-you ni**er" and so forth at the guy.
From two-thirds of a block away (probably 50-60 yards), I turned the light on the crowd. The group parted like the friggin' Red Sea as the thugs began to scatter like roaches in the light.
Two came walking my way but a direct facial blast from 40 yards changed their course dramatically as they opted to go the other way.
Of course, the cops show up 30 seconds later and all is well.
Yes, this is a non-lethal weapon. Of course, one should never use a non-lethal weapon without a real weapon as backup.
AKA "Don't take a flashlight to a gunfight."
After having this light for three weeks or so, I can't imagine going back to my UltraStinger anytime soon.
John
Anyway, got a Mag85 (or a Mag951-II as Juancho / Black Bear likes to call it) for my first "super light."
Yeah, it's really, really bright. Blindingly bright... It shines nicely on ceilings and on walls, but I had a chance on Christmas Eve to use it like it deserves to be used.
I was coming back to my girlfriend's place in the "not always such a nice part of town" when I noticed four guys running away from a house, hiding behind bushes and running through people's front yards. Now, it's 11:00pm and the thing that really caught my attention was the guy carrying the one-gallon can of gasoline.
I took a second run around the block and saw many more people converging on a house near where the four guys had been running away from earlier. I pulled into my gf's driveway and she stuck her head out of the door and told me she just confonted a man trying to climb over her 4' fence on the side of the house.
I grabbed the Mag951 and called 9-1-1 on my cell phone. I walked two houses down and stood behind a large tree and reported what happened and described what had now turned into some sort of melee. About a dozen men and boys were in front of a house, with three sets of people fighting and several more throwing snow or ice balls at the front of the house in an apparent effort to break the windows (cops later tell me this was a suspected crack house).
The 9-1-1 dispatcher said the cops were in the area when a neighbor came out and told the thugs to get the hell out of there. Some of the thugs began hurling rude comments like "F-you ni**er" and so forth at the guy.
From two-thirds of a block away (probably 50-60 yards), I turned the light on the crowd. The group parted like the friggin' Red Sea as the thugs began to scatter like roaches in the light.
Two came walking my way but a direct facial blast from 40 yards changed their course dramatically as they opted to go the other way.
Of course, the cops show up 30 seconds later and all is well.
Yes, this is a non-lethal weapon. Of course, one should never use a non-lethal weapon without a real weapon as backup.
AKA "Don't take a flashlight to a gunfight."
After having this light for three weeks or so, I can't imagine going back to my UltraStinger anytime soon.
John
