WarRaven
Flashlight Enthusiast
One night not too long ago, the son, wife and myself were heading to creek to walk trails. My son has a Fenix PD35, and Olight M22 on him, the wife, has another Fenix PD35 and a Olight M21X. And myself using a Nitecore MH20, Olight S30RII, few small Fenix lights and a Olight Javelot M3XS-UT.
We enter trails from an avenue nearby where street lights are fairly bright so our night vision is off to a bad start. No problem, we've lights.
With that said the pair of Fenix PD35s light up, both running on medium output, and I fire up my MH20 on medium.
Great we can see, strolling along path farther away from street lights we go.
A little time goes by, I see something odd way down trail in pitch dark of night but only faintly, I crank up MH20, hmm can't make it out yet but it's going from side to side in an odd pattern... I suggest to family whose packing a couple medium throwers, light it up.
Well it's lit a bit better, though with walking motion of ourselves and the floating object I couldn't see squat yet..
It takes me a minute to pull out Javelot, point it at sky, turn it on, yup low, medium, there, high mode, I turn it off.
Level light with ground towards that odd vision ahead and click rear switch... Click!
Yup, you know it, hit him square between the eyes at a much closer distance then when first noticed.
A jogger, poor bugger was dodging side to side on trail to keep his vision as he approached us, well until he was given a slight tan on his nose.
Omg!!! I yell out, mother of Murphy I'm sorry dude, as we point out lights to ground the poor guy runs up to us then and is chuckling as much as breathing hard, smiles and says no problem guys.
So yeah it sucks sometimes having great lights and nailing others in bush by accident.
I've lit up a couple bush parties trying to be quiet while my family and I are walking past accidentally, usually just go oops, sorry guys.
Any retina scorching incidents you were a part of?
I can't be only one by far to come across others in dark and scorch their vision.
Let's here them stories gang?
We enter trails from an avenue nearby where street lights are fairly bright so our night vision is off to a bad start. No problem, we've lights.
With that said the pair of Fenix PD35s light up, both running on medium output, and I fire up my MH20 on medium.
Great we can see, strolling along path farther away from street lights we go.
A little time goes by, I see something odd way down trail in pitch dark of night but only faintly, I crank up MH20, hmm can't make it out yet but it's going from side to side in an odd pattern... I suggest to family whose packing a couple medium throwers, light it up.
Well it's lit a bit better, though with walking motion of ourselves and the floating object I couldn't see squat yet..
It takes me a minute to pull out Javelot, point it at sky, turn it on, yup low, medium, there, high mode, I turn it off.
Level light with ground towards that odd vision ahead and click rear switch... Click!
Yup, you know it, hit him square between the eyes at a much closer distance then when first noticed.
A jogger, poor bugger was dodging side to side on trail to keep his vision as he approached us, well until he was given a slight tan on his nose.
Omg!!! I yell out, mother of Murphy I'm sorry dude, as we point out lights to ground the poor guy runs up to us then and is chuckling as much as breathing hard, smiles and says no problem guys.
So yeah it sucks sometimes having great lights and nailing others in bush by accident.
I've lit up a couple bush parties trying to be quiet while my family and I are walking past accidentally, usually just go oops, sorry guys.
Any retina scorching incidents you were a part of?
I can't be only one by far to come across others in dark and scorch their vision.
Let's here them stories gang?
