scott.cr
Flashlight Enthusiast
...at a gun show in Las Vegas over the weekend. I was there looking for rifle parts and ended up buying a PentagonLight X2 for $45. Not a bad bargain I thought!
It's a nice light, but not at their retail asking price of $89 imho. It is similar in size to a 6P but feels heavier/heftier to me. Plastic lens. It's the hard ano version, and their hard ano is rougher feeling (like a chalkboard) compared to Surefire. Personally I like that rough military-feeling finish, but it may scratch easier than the "polished" HA finishes from Surefire.
One thing I find absolutely ridiculous and has forever turned me off of paying full price for a PentagonLight is the pentagon-shaped flats milled into the tailcap. On a Surefire it's a six-sided "nut," so you have parallel flats to stick a wrench on if you have to. With the PentagonLight this is not possible because there are no parallel flats! It's sheerly cosmetic.
It's a nice light, but not at their retail asking price of $89 imho. It is similar in size to a 6P but feels heavier/heftier to me. Plastic lens. It's the hard ano version, and their hard ano is rougher feeling (like a chalkboard) compared to Surefire. Personally I like that rough military-feeling finish, but it may scratch easier than the "polished" HA finishes from Surefire.
One thing I find absolutely ridiculous and has forever turned me off of paying full price for a PentagonLight is the pentagon-shaped flats milled into the tailcap. On a Surefire it's a six-sided "nut," so you have parallel flats to stick a wrench on if you have to. With the PentagonLight this is not possible because there are no parallel flats! It's sheerly cosmetic.