TeacherRo,

NICE collection, would you please share the make and model of the case you have them in? I can think of a number of uses for it.

I'm looking at the flashlight on my night stand and the flashlight on my bureau while typing from my smartphone that has a flashlight widget on the home screen and thinking there is no such thing as enough flashlights.

Flashlights are without question one of my EDC that gets used daily.

Nice! I've been eying a Malkoff turn-key light, too...if I can lay off the gun buying for awhile! Two new HK's in the last two months and one more on layaway.

I have to take the opportunity to sing the virtues of the Micro Photon. I don't have the Doug Ritter version but a black one with orange bulb. It's a single squeeze LED with an on off switch and about the size of a quarter but thicker. I wear mine on a paracord lanyard and never take it off. (I have knock-offs on my keychain, FAK but this one is the real thing.) It's simple to use and dependable. I chamge the battery twice a year at daylight savings time and it's never failed me. I got mine shortly after joining ETS and I use it multiple times a day. I use it for many things but have it to be brilliant for finding lost soother in the wee hours or checking on the baby after she makes a weird noise in the middle of the night. Trust me when I tell you that that's high praise.

I love HKs, those heavy, ugly, glorious REDACTED. Carry an MP-5 and a 91 plus one of thier pistols in my weapons bag when I work. recently saw a VP70Z I think it was, for sale. Looked a bit to much like a star trek weapon for my taste. Been snatching up Beretta and Sigs when I can.

Phaedrus... OK you cost me another $12.50.... I just had to order a SolarForce 820 lumen LED module (on sale) ...a pocket sized 820 lumen light should be seriously distracting...and I thought the 320 lumen light was neat....

Hahaha! You can never have too many flashlights! My current "short list" includes a Malkoff drop-in for my Surefire Z combat light, a turn-key Malkoff and a Surefire EB1. I'm also itching to get one of the new Streamlight weapon lights with the bumped up 650 lumen rating. Right now I have a Surefire X300 Ultra on my FNP45 Tactical, and it was the king of the hill for what, six months, before Streamlight came out with a brighter one? The new Streamlight will go on my Remington 870 and I'll keep the Surefire for whichever sidearm I'm using for HD at the time.

I gotta lay off the HK's! Flashlights are bad enough, guns are even worse! A few weeks ago I found a used USP9 that you seriously can't tell from new; it was only $699! Not a bad price at all. So even though I didn't strictly need it I couldn't pass it up. Now I have two USP9's! I have a P30S on layaway but that's gotta be it for awhile. Only exception would be if I was to find a HK45C somewhere.

I am really impressed at what current technology has done to portable lighting. I come from a time when the state of the art flashlight was a clunky 2 D cell (Ready Leak) that would occasionally put out a dim, flickering light on a good day. Almost any el cheapo light today is far superior.For me the most important quality of a light is dependability (when you mash on the button,do you get light?) and run time. I am far less concerned about lumens, although I really like multi level lights so that you have options. And I like compactness and light weight, since that means you will have one when you need it.

I currently pack an LD01 on my keyring, with a Zebralight headlamp (one AA) in my bag. Both lights have spare batteries in the bag. With either one I could hike all night before I would need to replace the batteries.

It would seem that the upper limit of the lumens race would be daylight. What is the lumens rating of that big bright object in the sky we see every day?

in addition to putting on an excellent 3 gun match, the Army Marksmanship Unit at Ft Benning amassed an excellent prize table... and thanks to the many sponsors of high end equipment, even finishing in the 50s there were plenty of goodies to choose... a thanks to Sure Fire for the 05 match where they had a bunch of the Scout Lights on the table...