So I just got a couple of throwy lights, a c8t and an l2. Lots of fun to play with and I can imagine to what uses I can put them to but I have read of some lights that have very narrow beams and little spill. So what kind of uses do these lights excek at? And what uses do really throwy lights like the GT have?
Lighting things far away… 
Wow! Mind blowing.
I don’t ever hike on low vegetation and plains, since I live near a mountain range and tropical vegetation, but I imagine hiking in open environment is an ideal use case
Ahh yes. That would do the job.
8 reasons right here:
Understood but let’s say we’re talking about man portable lights. Or even pocketable lights.
9th reason: keep Enderman busy, hehe. 
Most of those can still apply to portable lights, like illumination for search and rescue, military, perimeter search, etc.
The majority of people that buy lights like the GT is to have fun with a giant beam of light at night and to show other people.
Only a few people bought it for searching their large property for intruders or actual work that requires that kind of light.
xD yup
I think for most people there are very few uses. One recent use I saw was a friend that was docking his small ski boat on a lake and needed a throwy spotlight type light to see where the pier was.
This guy is a wind turbine technician who legitimately needs a 1 mile long thrower to check if the turbines are turning at 2am.
https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/7i4ahh/flashlight_for_remote_areas/
Thanks. Just like I thought, there are plenty of uses that I couldn’t have imagined with my limited experience and imagination. I do find a floody light that can throw around 150 to 200 meters much more relevant to my uses but I can do a more detailed search with a throwy light. I am comparing a A6 to a C8T. While I can see the big picture almost immediately with the A6, I can see better into the brush with the C8T.
What I am mostly concerned with is turning into the large vacant lot in front of my house and looking if there’s anything to be concerned with. Prowlers are common on our side of the woods.
However when the boys are together and the lights come out, us less well endowed individuals can feel big with the L2.
If you can dodge a flashlight, then you can dodge a ball.
I’m always trying to spot something down the road or on the other side of the valley or on the shore from a boat.
Throwers are like a car’s spare tire: it only does one thing and you won’t use it often but when you need it, you’ll be a lot happier when you have one with you.
Nobody’s saying it? Shining or jack-lighting deer. Not that I’ve ever done it.
Yeah, spotting creatures on the other side of the yard, in trees, whatever.
Had a ruckus going on, all sorts of Hellish screeching, and it turned out to be a family of little raccoons yelling at each other.
Was so long ago, only had my 2×D Maglight prefocussed to a tight spot, that let me light ’em up way up high. And I was kinda proud of the “reach” that light had.
Now? Hell, any light I got would outthrow it. L2, F13, C8, you name it.
I buy thrower lights cause they’re more impressive than my johnson
I had one of those squarish plastic lights with a handle on top and 4 D or C cells in a carrier and that was the shitz for me back then. I think my jet2 mk is brighter than that light ever was
I remember these more than most.
Oh yah. Those. My father had one and I was always running down the batts so he gave me one for Christmas. Then I kept swapping out my batts on his light.
Seems like most things I like now are things I liked as a kid. Radios, guns, knives… Wonder why that is. Haha