sigsour
Newly Enlightened
My mother-in-law called me on her cell at around 10:30pm last night saying their was a person laying in a ditch on our dirt road. (we both live a half mile down the same dirt road) She asked me if I could come with her to check him out (she is a nurse). I said "sure" and I grabbed my Ruger SP101 and my Novatac 120T. As we were coming up to the point she told me I should be seeing him any second now on my side of the car. "He is gone" she said so I figured it was some drunk that had fallen and had gotten his senses back enough to head back down the road.
We were proceeding to turn around when I caught a flash (his reflective shoe) in the woods. There he was laying down totally prone with his arms wrapped over his head. As I was approaching him I saw a second guy a few yards behind him in a prone postion also. I put the Novatac on its second highest setting (70 lumens)and proceeded to ask these young adults what in the world they were doing out in these woods. They were both having trouble seeing me with this intense brightness shining in their eyes. (It was quite obvious that I had an upper hand at this point since I saw that they both were carrying cheap 2C plastic flashlights and the blinding light was making them both very uncomfortable) They said they were just fooling around in the woods. They were both actually in appearance two very clean cut 18 or 19 year old kids that both appeared to be sober and not high on any drugs. I asked where they lived and they said that their house was right down the road and I told them that maybe it would be best that they head off that way...As the second guy is getting up, I notice a crow bar under from where he was laying. He gets up and grabs the bar in a manner they had me a little concerned so I hit the blast mode on the Novatac and he immediately dropped the crow bar and they both headed away from the light toward the paved road.
I truly believe that the Novatac kept the whole situation under control simply by me keeping the light in their eyes the entire confrontation. I never even showed them the Ruger 357 that I had in my front pocket the entire time and I am sure they never knew it was there.
I do regret not seeing where they took off to...since my mother-in-law wanted to head to the house ASAP. She had already called 911 and I met the sheriff 15 minutes later when I drove back to get the free crow bar they had left.
I never actually thought about my Novatac as a real defensive tool; but it sure was tonight. It turned what could have been a violent event into a simple exchange of words and 2 very scared young adults. (and that free crow bar)
We were proceeding to turn around when I caught a flash (his reflective shoe) in the woods. There he was laying down totally prone with his arms wrapped over his head. As I was approaching him I saw a second guy a few yards behind him in a prone postion also. I put the Novatac on its second highest setting (70 lumens)and proceeded to ask these young adults what in the world they were doing out in these woods. They were both having trouble seeing me with this intense brightness shining in their eyes. (It was quite obvious that I had an upper hand at this point since I saw that they both were carrying cheap 2C plastic flashlights and the blinding light was making them both very uncomfortable) They said they were just fooling around in the woods. They were both actually in appearance two very clean cut 18 or 19 year old kids that both appeared to be sober and not high on any drugs. I asked where they lived and they said that their house was right down the road and I told them that maybe it would be best that they head off that way...As the second guy is getting up, I notice a crow bar under from where he was laying. He gets up and grabs the bar in a manner they had me a little concerned so I hit the blast mode on the Novatac and he immediately dropped the crow bar and they both headed away from the light toward the paved road.
I truly believe that the Novatac kept the whole situation under control simply by me keeping the light in their eyes the entire confrontation. I never even showed them the Ruger 357 that I had in my front pocket the entire time and I am sure they never knew it was there.
I do regret not seeing where they took off to...since my mother-in-law wanted to head to the house ASAP. She had already called 911 and I met the sheriff 15 minutes later when I drove back to get the free crow bar they had left.
I never actually thought about my Novatac as a real defensive tool; but it sure was tonight. It turned what could have been a violent event into a simple exchange of words and 2 very scared young adults. (and that free crow bar)
