Les Jones: Archie Gates and Some New Flashlights

November 07, 2005

Quotes > Archie Gates and Some New Flashlights

"That's what makes Special Forces so bad-ass. We've got the best flashlights."
-- Archie Gates (George Clooney), Three Kings

Speaking of flashlights, I bought some StreamLight TwinTask 3AA and 3C flashlights last week to give as gifts. They're equipped with dual LED/Xenon heads so you can go from long-life LED to high-intensity Xenon at the click of a button. The Xenon output rivals my SureFire E2D. The difference is that the StreamLights runs twice as long on the Xenon bulbs and 80-160 times as long on the LEDs.They're good flashlights for $30.

I haven't tried the Lithium models, but I promised Melissa one for her birthday later this month. She's becoming a flashlight geek just like me. She mentioned the other day that she hates our Mag-Lite 5D after using the Lithium-powered SureFire. I love the SureFire, except for the fact that it snuffs a set of batteries in the time it takes to watch 60 Minutes. I'd like to get a SureFire Aviator which also swings both ways with LED and Xenon. Thing is, it's 160 smackers and while my desires are infinite my resources aren't. If the $30 StreamLight is good I'll probably buy it for myself and pocket the 130 clams. Then the E2D would go on the Mossberg shotgun. That was my plan before I got my hands on the E2D and found out how great it was as a pocket flashlight.

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I use my TwinTask 1L as my daily use light, so as to spare the Surefire Z2 for when I really need the lumens.

Posted by: Tam at November 07, 2005

Yeah, because the Surefire goes through batteries really fast. Like if you turn it on when you drop off a shirt at a one hour drycleaner, by the time your shirt's ready the batteries will be dead. ;-)

Posted by: Les Jones at November 07, 2005