Maglites are still a great brute light, especially with the LED option. Streamlight still has a number of good brute light models in production. I have a wicked laser Maglite type flashlight that has an incandescent in it that is as bright as an aircraft running light.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)