I am very happy that you resisted for so long. I on the other hand continue to hold out.
For some reason can't get my head around a $135.00 65 lumen flashlight.
I know it's surefire. I know it is tiny. I know all that stuff. What I don't know is why I need one. Maybe I don't need one. I think I want one but I don't know why.
This is a disease....
. There is no reason "why" you want it, you just do.. lol. I guess I will share a bit into "why" I broke down and ordered it though because I was of the same opinion as yourself for a LONG time.
This is actually my first light over $100 that I've bought. Before this my highest dollar, and nicest light, was the DereeLight CL1H v2.0 followed by the Fenix P3D CE. I never really thought a >$100 flashlight would have enough value for that high of a price. That was, until last weekend.
My girlfriend and myself went to the Lava Beds National Monument in northern California to explore the caves again. Me, being a bit of a flashaholic, of course came prepared with flashlights a plenty! I had brough my 3d Mag LED, CL1H v2.0, DX U2 style w/ q5 emitter, Fenix p3d CE, Surefire G2(with DX LED dropin) and VB16. My girlfriend has a love for surefire lights since she got to use a few of their nicer models when she was in the service. So she was using my G2 while I, for the most part, was using the CL1h and Fenix lights while still carrying all of the rest excep the Mag Light..
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Alright, back to the story..
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The floor of one of the caves was made of rocks about the size of basketballs. Most of them were quite "wobbly" and it was a careful walk to get to the end of the cave. On the way back, my GF lost her footing and she caught herself with my G2 in her hand(opened up her hand so the G2 would hit the wall of the cave instead of her fingers). The rocks put a few little dents in the G2 and it still works perfectly. I, did something similar, but I dropped my P3D which damaged the head so it no longer screws in/out of the body. Also, on the way back, the high mode on my Cl1H stopped working for some unknown reason.
So I was left with 2 broken(but still usable just with diminished output) lights while the surefire was still going strong. I decided I needed something of a bit higher quality than what I had. That is when the L1 Cree really started wearing me down...
. Like people have said, you can count on a surefire when you need to. This incident has given me SERIOUS doubt as to how the rest of my lights would perform when I NEEDED it to, not just when I wanted it to.
Wow, this turned into quite a long read..
Thanks for doing so ... lol
