What is your favorite flashlight?

[Cbarnett]

Mine is the Surefire G2
Surefire has good customer service too.

 

[rhino]

SureFire does make good stuff and it's as sturdy as you can get. You might want to consider an LED module for your G2. You'll get more light with slightly better battery life, and LEDs last essentially forever ... they aren't fragile like the filament inside the incandescent lamp in your G2.

My favorite light that I currently own is my Fenix T11. It's crazy bright (rated at 225 lumens, I think), will throw a beam over 200 meters (this is an LED too), and had a built-in ring so I can use a "Rogers" hold if I so choose. It has a clicky switch, so I can have either momentary "on," or "on." The switch is also recessed just enough it minimizes accidental pushes, but still protrudes enough to bump with your palm if you hold it Rogers-style.



What my favorite flashlight really is remains to be seen ... there so many.

 

[Blaze261]

+1 on the Fenix line. I carry a P3D daily. Paid around $55 for it. Have had it for a year and a half.

Utilizes a Cree 7090 XR-E LED with a life of 50,000 hours
Two modes of output, selected by turning the bezel
General Mode: 9 lumens (65hrs) -> 40 lumens (13hrs) -> 90 lumens (4.8hrs) -> SOS
Turbo Mode: 160 lumens (1.8hrs) -> Strobe
Love the different modes. Great light.

My other light I used before this one is a E2D surefire. Max Output: 60 lumens Runtime: 1.25 hours

Good light paid around $110 for it. Has the strike bezel, which is nice. The surefire has gotten retired duty since I got the Fenix. Surefire has hardly any finish left on it. Advantage for me goes to the Fenix. Next one will be of the more tactical type that Rhino is talking about.

Both lights are better than nothing when taken on a flight. They are both alowed in carry-on.

 

[bigcraig]

I have a SF E2e and a handfull of G2's, none are LED as I have had them for a while and they all work as is.

 

[rhino]

Few things are more fun than getting together for dinner in a restaurant with a bunch of "gun guys," and trying to blind each other with the flashlights you carry.

 

[clt46910]

Wow, very hard question for me. I love good flashlights...LOL Got so many sitting around it is just hard to tell. Have a rechargable Maglight in the charger mounted to the headboard of the bed.

Keep a Streamlight Strion in its charger mounted to the right side frame at the front door and a Streamlight Ultra Stinger mounted the same way at the back door.

Keep a Pentagonlight X2 Xenon next to my chair. Both the truck and car have a couple good flashlights in them with extra batteries. Not counting all the lights I have hanging aroung in other places in the house. Have a whole drawer of lights I have brought and for so reason I found them wanting.

Think I might have an addiction...

 

[shooter521]

I have a SF E2e and a handfull of G2's, none are LED as I have had them for a while and they all work as is.

+1. My first "tactical" light was a Surefire 6P (so old it is marked "Laser Products" on the tailcap); I still have it and it's still going strong. I have since bought a second 6P, several G2s, and have built up a "Classic"-style weaponlight from spare parts I had laying around. I've been through a crapload of batteries but have yet to change a bulb in any of them.

 

[Bubbajms]

Novatac 120T is my carry light, but my favorite light is the Barbolight series. They're just too cool.

 

[bigcraig]

Few things are more fun than getting together for dinner in a restaurant with a bunch of "gun guys," and trying to blind each other with the flashlights you carry.

This is very true.

Nothing like watching rhino temporarely blind himself showing off his new fancy pants flashlight!

 

[spainy79]

I keep a Maglite 6 cell in each vehicle mounted to the drivers seat where it does not interfere with my feet.

 

[obijohn]

This is very true.

Nothing like watching rhino temporarely blind himself showing off his new fancy pants flashlight!

that's just good clean fun.

for me, i like my first light's. the tomahawk is a bit easier to carry.

 

[tyler34]

another vote for fenix here

 

[Cwood]

G2 LED it's a great light.

 

[cougar_guy04]

Just got a G2 LED model for my birthday . . . I'll be replacing the P60 in my G2 w/ a G2LED module soon. Also, played with a E2DL (LED model of the E2D) and I think when the money is there, it'll become my EDC light.

Though, I'm also still a fan of the big'ol Maglite 4 D-Cell model.

Few things are more fun than getting together for dinner in a restaurant with a bunch of "gun guys," and trying to blind each other with the flashlights you carry.

Says the person who whipped out the Surefire so they could run the Coach's calculator at dinner in June. At least you weren't trying to blind us . . . or yourself.

 

[Vigilant]

I carry an e2d everyday, have a G2 in each vehicle, and 6P and 6Z in the house. Thinking of converting everything over to led though.

 

[rhino]

This is very true.

Nothing like watching rhino temporarely blind himself showing off his new fancy pants flashlight!

You only say that because it's true.

 

[rhino]

Says the person who whipped out the Surefire so they could run the Coach's calculator at dinner in June. At least you weren't trying to blind us . . . or yourself.

And it worked!

And, I did not bore anyone with a monolog about Einstein and the Photoelectric Effect!

 

[Sweetums]

I keep a Maglite 6 cell in each vehicle mounted to the drivers seat where it does not interfere with my feet.

I keep a 6 cell Mag in my truck as well, also serves as an excellent blunt force weapon...

 

[PM66]

+1. My first "tactical" light was a Surefire 6P (so old it is marked "Laser Products" on the tailcap); I still have it and it's still going strong. I have since bought a second 6P, several G2s, and have built up a "Classic"-style weaponlight from spare parts I had laying around. I've been through a crapload of batteries but have yet to change a bulb in any of them.

I have a 6P with the Laser Products logo on it, too. It's almost bare aluminum now, and the knurling is nearly worn off, but I've been a mechanic for almost 23 years and this one's been either on my belt, or in my hand for maybe 9 or 10 of those years. Lots of 123 batteries, and several bulb replacements. Might have to invest in an LED bulb, as I burn batteries!!
Also use an M2, and M3 Combat Lights out on the town, or hunting. Comes in handy for that after dark blood trail.

 

[james e]

surfire

its the only way to go!!!