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Nevermind where you guys get the money to get over 100s of SF, where the heck do you put these lights? Also, how did you get your significant others to play nicely?

I try hard keep my total flashlight population between 30-40, with about half of them being Surefire. Occasionally, I would sell some of my lights to make room for new ones. It seems like most people just keep them.
 
I voted 10 or more. Since we're counting here I did. 17 with a lot of spare parts. 7 weaponlight's alone. Although I've easily bought 50+ I've either sold/traded/given away the rest.

I try not to bet my life on any piece of equipment... they all fail sooner or later. That being said I only use SureFire light's. I love the quality... and warranty. There are other good light's, but the last thing I need is another product line to look through:ohgeez:

BTW several... many:shrug: ...are modded. I'll explain a light to a flashaholic in detail, but everyone else is told it's a SureFire that I modified. No light is perfect for each of us. While I'm sure SureFire pays attention to us.... for that reason they won't be bending over for us. No company can base itself off of the fanatics.

I'm trying not to, but I'm sure I'll buy more SureFire's:broke:

Radio :wave:
If you're serious I demand some pics... or links to pics.lovecpf I've seen DaFab's collection and it's crazy. You're talking about 2-3X that many😱
 
Zeruel said:
Where's Stuart when we need him for these info? 😀
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In another thread he seemed to be saying that police/military sales are what got the company started but don't represent their largest market today. If Surefire really does make 2,000+ lights per day you could sell one to every law enforcement officer of any kind in the USA and still have more left over than you were able to sell. Even if you ignore that the number of people who responded to this poll is going to be way smaller than the number of people who have owned Surefires, been on CPF and just stopped posting or don't participate in polls you still have to consider that there aren't many opportunities to find groups of hundreds of people who really understand the intricacies of how high performance flashlights work and have,

A: thousands of your flashlights
B: collectively hundreds of thousands, possibly millions? of manhours using your lights
C: experience with a wide variety of your products and the competition's products

There are markets bigger than CPF. I'm sure that Lowes moves more 6P's and G2's than CPF has membership. I'm also sure you'd get higher quality feedback from CPF than randomly questioning Lowes shoppers who buy Surefires. Other large markets could probably offer similar insight, knowing Surefires work better than anything at WalMart but not really having any other basis for comparison.
 
Mikey V said:
I have 12. Two E1b's w/ Z68 tailcaps, two E2DL's, an L1, an L4 (100 Lmn), U2(A), Milspec Kroma, regular Kroma, 6PDL, Z2L w/Z59 tailcap, 6PL w/Z59 tailcap. The last 3 have R2 drop-ins.
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SitRep. Since above post, total now up to 16. New additions: 120 lumen L4, an E1L, an E2L and a Viking Tactics VTAC L4. The last is basically a single stage E2DL without a strike bezel and standard Z68 clicky. It has the KX2C head with TIR lens and is black type III HA.

Life is bright.
 
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Who then is their largest market? .....think.....think.... :thinking:
Does that mean....civilians?! Us?
 
Police are civilians, in the US anyway. So if you're talking markets you'd probably have to break it down to government sales versus sales to private citizens. On SureFire's own website we see the following,

The world's finest compact high-intensity flashlights for outdoors, self-defense, military, law enforcement, and general applications.
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3 out of 5 of the suggested uses apply to private citizens. That's probably a clue as to where the bread and butter is, at least these days.

I believe the original point of contention was whether or not feedback from CPF matters. Clearly CPF knows a lot about flashlight performance, clearly SureFire is marketing lights to the entire spectrum of CPF members be they government users or private citizens, clearly there are thousands of SureFire lights in the hands of CPF members and this thread has established there are over 300 active SureFire users/owners on CPF. That's a pretty good study group any way you cut it. If I made a product I'd be interested in feedback from such a group.
 
I clicked 1, but currently own 0...I have had : 6p,9p,9n,gpz,M3,M4,e2e,e2l(lux3 and new), 6pl,e2dl and g2.

I look forward to buying more...though there are none that really interest me now. I am excited about my next SF purchase though because I know it will have to be an extrodanary light to get my $$$ from great new companies like Fenix and Olight with their cutting edge emitters and ui.
 
american lockpicker said:
Wouldn't a poll on did CPF influence your decision to purchase a Surefire be useful?
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Interesting question. I know it did for me. I was amazed by a Coast V2 Tactical from Lowes and went searching for something better. Ended up at CPF. Didn't take long before I had a E1L. It was quite a spiral from there...
 
Interesting calculations - perhaps 'a morning's work' would be more like it then. This is something almost impossible to verify and I can't prove it or provide any support.
My point was that even though this snapshot shows ~2,000 SureFires - I think this is actually a pretty low number. It would be interesting to get a better picture of how SureFire ownership sits within the context of overall flashlight ownership. Are there more Fenix flashlights for example?
 
I think the greatest number of lights out there are the cheap plastic 2D flashlights you can get anywhere.

Oh yeah, I just bought another SF, my 1st C series, a C3. Where the hell is UPS!!!
 
kelmo said:
I think the greatest number of lights out there are the cheap plastic 2D flashlights you can get anywhere.

Oh yeah, I just bought another SF, my 1st C series, a C3. Where the hell is UPS!!!
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I was considering CPF members rather than people in general.
Designing an online questionnaire to explore the brands owned by CPF members of which SureFire is but one. Do the ~2,000 SureFires represent a good proportion of the overall number of flashlights owned or are there other brands that trump SureFire on quantity?
 
Size15's said:
My point was that even though this snapshot shows ~2,000 SureFires - I think this is actually a pretty low number.
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Agreed, 2000+ Surefires is a very small number.

Size15's said:
Are there more Fenix flashlights for example?
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Of course, no doubts about it.

The interesting part about this online poll, is that there are only 333 Surefire owners among the thousands of CPF members. Out of the 333 Surefires owners, 89 are hardcore Surefire fanatics who own more than 10~100+ SF.


woodrow said:
I clicked 1, but currently own 0....
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If you currently have no Surefires light. Don't mess out the poll results.

1wrx7 said:
Radio :wave:
If you're serious I demand some pics... or links to pics.lovecpf I've seen DaFab's collection and it's crazy. You're talking about 2-3X that many😱
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hey Radio, I would be interested to see your Surefires flashlights. Where are the pictures?
 
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