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Flashlight Enthusiast
The other night as my wife and I were starting to retire for the evening, we heard these unearthly, ungodly, howling, yowling, barking sounds. I opened a window and my wife and I looked out across the road and into the deep dark fields and saw half a dozen dog-like figures: coyotes, of course. We're talking over a thousand feet here, easy. A job for the TigerLight, I thought, and ran downstairs and grabbed it. When I got back to the window and turned it on, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the TL actually could reach that far and light them up. Mostly what showed were the glowing eyes, but also I could see their bodies. They stopped whatever it was they were doing, stoped making noise, and then ran for it! The TL scared them off, even from a significant part of a mile away. Awesome. My wife, who is usually highly sceptical about the value of my handful of (to her mind) expensive flashlights, was duly impressed. She even told her friends about it later.
I easily followed several of them as they ran along the edge of the woods, and after they had all left I lit up a few cows just for fun before closing the window.
And another story . . .
Before this happened I was out getting the mail when the german shepherd that my landlord owns came up to bother me. Well, he thinks it's play and not a bother. He probably means well, but I get tired of getting jumped on or having my mittens stolen. So I turned the TL full in his face. He kept on for a bit but stopped short and then decided he didn't want to play blind and turned and left. Ah, it's so nice to have a seriously bright incan, I thought. I also wasn't sure whether or not the bright light would stop him because I have read in another thread that bright lights DO NOT stop dogs, but in this case it did. Thanks TigerLight for a little bit of light in this dark time.
[EDIT] edited for proper units, feet not yards! oops. Whatever, it was FAR.
I easily followed several of them as they ran along the edge of the woods, and after they had all left I lit up a few cows just for fun before closing the window.
And another story . . .
Before this happened I was out getting the mail when the german shepherd that my landlord owns came up to bother me. Well, he thinks it's play and not a bother. He probably means well, but I get tired of getting jumped on or having my mittens stolen. So I turned the TL full in his face. He kept on for a bit but stopped short and then decided he didn't want to play blind and turned and left. Ah, it's so nice to have a seriously bright incan, I thought. I also wasn't sure whether or not the bright light would stop him because I have read in another thread that bright lights DO NOT stop dogs, but in this case it did. Thanks TigerLight for a little bit of light in this dark time.
[EDIT] edited for proper units, feet not yards! oops. Whatever, it was FAR.