I have owned my share of Surefire lights and I have recently used the word ridiculous when referring to some of the new Surefire lights, but I was referring to the price rather than the light output. The Beast sells for a cool $4000.00 which puts it out of reach of most common folk. Other light manufacturers have appeared to bridge the gap like Fenix mentioned above. You can own a light with a higher output than the Beast, 2200 lumens, in the form of the
Fenix TK70 for about $200.00 sans batteries. Good solid build and reliable. Maybe not Surefire quality, but for the price difference, I have not heard anyone complain.
When you said $4,000, did you mean to leave off a zero?! That's just Surefire making something just because they can. I'm sure a few people at Surefire laugh at any sucker who buys that.
You can proclaim "build quality" only up to a certain price. At some point you have to question how efficient a company is at making something. At $4,000, that thing had better come with a diamond worth $3,600 or something like that. Otherwise, I don't respect Surefire's ability to design and build within a budget.
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