First time poster, long time creeper.
I have spent more money on flashlights then most my other hobbies.
I am probably the king of cheap-o flashlights at the moment, but who wasn't when they first started?
Few things I wanna hit on this first post as I have been waiting on posting for alooong time.
Firstly, I go to a local, family-owned sporting good store here in town and they have a large selection of lights, most surefire models in the 60~120 lumen range, browning and streamlight. The people at the store are very generous and will let you open a flashlight in the blister pack if they don't already have one on display, and they will even let you go into the lounge with a handful of torches and turn the lights off so you can test them out.
One thing I figured out is surefire is amazing for its build quality, but I would be willing to put money that maglite is up there with them..(im going to get flamed for this next part probably.) Since I got the play with a few of the surefires and streamlights, I bite the bullet and purchased a G2L with the p60 drop in. Now, it was brighter than anything I had purchased originally that was that small. After a couple weeks, I was browsing through the local HD and came up on the MagLED package that had the 3d LED and the 2AA multimode MM for 29.99. I quickly discovered the 3d mag was brighter than the surefire, and the 2AA was a step behind it. So I returned the Surefire :O and I am glad to say that I couldn't be happier. (let the flaming begin?)
Secondly, I have been searching high and low for an EDC, I have spend a couple hundred on cheapish $25 flashlights, including some energizer, rayovac, inova, streamlight, surefire, coleman and a couple no named chinese 5mm led things. I finally narrowed my search to a Streamlight stylus pro (bought it and kept it) and a surefire eb1 backup. I like the streamlight stylus pro and I like penlights (i carried a cheapo energizer at work for aloooong time before I gave it up) but I like the thought of the surefire eb1, just can't bite the bullet or pull the trigger on a $120 light. (my pockets are deep enough, but the misses hasn't taken a liking to my new hobby, she likes the flashlights and their usefulness, but after 10-12, she was done.) anywho, I have been carrying the streamlight stylus pro as my main edc for some time and it does its job well, and i use it to walk with at night along with the 3d mag, but i wouldn't want it to be my only light for camping or the only light laying around the house.
What are yalls thoughts on the edc? The streamlight stylus pro is everything I need, but of course there is better and I could swing for the EB1, but would take a butt whooping for it. I honestly think I would be better off saving for something like a p7 mod for the 3d mag. (also been thinking about the terralux dropin)
thank you for reading, i still have a hundred million questions, but ill wait and won't ask to many in one thread
I have spent more money on flashlights then most my other hobbies.
I am probably the king of cheap-o flashlights at the moment, but who wasn't when they first started?
Few things I wanna hit on this first post as I have been waiting on posting for alooong time.
Firstly, I go to a local, family-owned sporting good store here in town and they have a large selection of lights, most surefire models in the 60~120 lumen range, browning and streamlight. The people at the store are very generous and will let you open a flashlight in the blister pack if they don't already have one on display, and they will even let you go into the lounge with a handful of torches and turn the lights off so you can test them out.
One thing I figured out is surefire is amazing for its build quality, but I would be willing to put money that maglite is up there with them..(im going to get flamed for this next part probably.) Since I got the play with a few of the surefires and streamlights, I bite the bullet and purchased a G2L with the p60 drop in. Now, it was brighter than anything I had purchased originally that was that small. After a couple weeks, I was browsing through the local HD and came up on the MagLED package that had the 3d LED and the 2AA multimode MM for 29.99. I quickly discovered the 3d mag was brighter than the surefire, and the 2AA was a step behind it. So I returned the Surefire :O and I am glad to say that I couldn't be happier. (let the flaming begin?)
Secondly, I have been searching high and low for an EDC, I have spend a couple hundred on cheapish $25 flashlights, including some energizer, rayovac, inova, streamlight, surefire, coleman and a couple no named chinese 5mm led things. I finally narrowed my search to a Streamlight stylus pro (bought it and kept it) and a surefire eb1 backup. I like the streamlight stylus pro and I like penlights (i carried a cheapo energizer at work for aloooong time before I gave it up) but I like the thought of the surefire eb1, just can't bite the bullet or pull the trigger on a $120 light. (my pockets are deep enough, but the misses hasn't taken a liking to my new hobby, she likes the flashlights and their usefulness, but after 10-12, she was done.) anywho, I have been carrying the streamlight stylus pro as my main edc for some time and it does its job well, and i use it to walk with at night along with the 3d mag, but i wouldn't want it to be my only light for camping or the only light laying around the house.
What are yalls thoughts on the edc? The streamlight stylus pro is everything I need, but of course there is better and I could swing for the EB1, but would take a butt whooping for it. I honestly think I would be better off saving for something like a p7 mod for the 3d mag. (also been thinking about the terralux dropin)
thank you for reading, i still have a hundred million questions, but ill wait and won't ask to many in one thread