03-01-2014, 05:42 AM
One thing to consider with high-output flashlights is the blinding factor inside your home. They make great carbine lights outside, but once you get in a house, the reflection from even matte white indoor paint on most residential walls can really blind you. In the "bump in the night" scenario, you're racked out, hear something that takes your alertness up from zero to hero, and you reach for the bedside blaster...
Your eyes were fully adjusted to blissful REM sleep, and then you toggle or activate the high-intensity white LED with hundreds of lumens output, and it looks like the heavens opened up in your bedroom, your pupils recoiling in painful shut-down horror from the wave of starry radiation that was allowed direct access into your slumbering grey matter. Not so fun.
Even the little Microstream will do that to you to an extent. The technology has matured so much in the last 25 years, that my microstream makes the old 4 D-cell Maglights totally worthless, other than their most practical use, which those of you with LE backgrounds are quietly thinking to yourselves.
I like to have my Petzl headlamp for general outdoors use, but it wouldn't be so great in a gunfight, but does come in handy immediately after incident resolution sometimes, especially treating casualties, accounting for people and items, searching while 2-hand working, etc.
Your eyes were fully adjusted to blissful REM sleep, and then you toggle or activate the high-intensity white LED with hundreds of lumens output, and it looks like the heavens opened up in your bedroom, your pupils recoiling in painful shut-down horror from the wave of starry radiation that was allowed direct access into your slumbering grey matter. Not so fun.
Even the little Microstream will do that to you to an extent. The technology has matured so much in the last 25 years, that my microstream makes the old 4 D-cell Maglights totally worthless, other than their most practical use, which those of you with LE backgrounds are quietly thinking to yourselves.
I like to have my Petzl headlamp for general outdoors use, but it wouldn't be so great in a gunfight, but does come in handy immediately after incident resolution sometimes, especially treating casualties, accounting for people and items, searching while 2-hand working, etc.