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Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:11 pm
by bsg
MISSED I didn't for a moment think you where trying to put me down.
And everything you say is quite true. The wolf eyes is by far a better torch, but for me it all comes down to the cost. I know the Romisen will at some time let me down with as you say "it dying 500m from the car".
I guess I'll just have to buy a back up :lol:
Any time I do venture out after dark in the bush in the past I've always used my 3D maglite (now 20years old) and to be quite honest it's crap. The batteries last half an hour tops before it gets slowly dimmer, I've learnt to always care a spare torch, in the past it was a minimag that was useful just to get me home safe. I've recently got a smaller AA led torch about half the size of the minimag and only a fraction of the weight so I carry that.
Nearly all of my previous after dark hunting in the past was with vehicle mounted spotlight (I'll have to post a pic of my spotlight mount that was made from the front half of a mountain bike)
After reading the adventure others are having spotlighting with torches on foot I though I'd give it a go and this torch was a cheap way of doing it.
But there is noway I'd depend on it as my only source of light away from a vehicle at night, imagine what everybody would say when I told them "I broke my leg on a bunny hunting trip when the light died and I stepped in a rabbit burrow"
Brett

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:14 pm
by MISSED
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Yeah the old maglites are poor by comparison.
Hunting by torch at night is a lot of fun but not when it starts to rain :lol: :lol:
Enjoy your torch mate and save up for a Sea lion,As soon a s my Kidney grows back that is what I am going for,

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:17 am
by 500Nitro
MISSED wrote::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Yeah the old maglites are poor by comparison.
Hunting by torch at night is a lot of fun but not when it starts to rain :lol: :lol:
Enjoy your torch mate and save up for a Sea lion,As soon a s my Kidney grows back that is what I am going for,

The Sea Lion is awesome.

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:08 pm
by MAWLER
MISSED wrote:Mate one phone call tell Glen what you want and he will advise you on what will suit, give him your credit card details and every thing will turn up packaged and ready to roll.(I ordered at 4.00pm and had the torch the next day :shock: ).If you have any problems or wish to upgrade and within what seems like hours it is on your door.
Sounds ideal, and would be the preferable way of doing it, except for the cost. As fenring has demonstrated you can get a damn good package (and very close in performance to the wolfeyes) for 50% less. Maybe one day, but atm waiting 2 weeks is a much more affordable price to pay....

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:04 pm
by fenring
Shot a few more coneys with my rig last night. 8)

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:16 am
by badger74
Still waiting.........15 days now.....not shipped yet :(

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:44 pm
by The LOTT
Check the ADA 250 lumen optically focussed torch on http://www.accurateshooters.com.au/head ... lights.htm - they're $65 to anyone who sends me a private message. I'll have scope and barrel mounts for these by the end of the week. I contribute $10 to the ADA for each torch sold. The beauty of the optical focus is the totally focussed beam (the Cree 5W LED is square and the beam focusses to a square) that has almost zero spill - good to 200m! - and a quick twist unfocusses the beam for general use. It's only 110mm long, and has a 27.5mm dia tube - fits in your pocket. A customer had a power blackout 3 days after buying the torch and she sat it on its bum on the kitchen table, pointing at the ceiling, and was able to read a book for 6 hours until the power came back on - and the torch was still throwing enough light to read by. I reckon you'd get 2-4 hours continuous use at usable spotlighting intensity. All this powered by 3 AAA batteries!

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:01 pm
by Dave.223
Nice torches LOTT. Might have to order one of those for only $75, looks the goods.

Dave

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:03 pm
by Dave.223
Oh, make that $65.

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:52 pm
by GJS
Is that $65 posted?

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:47 pm
by The LOTT
GJS wrote:Is that $65 posted?
Err, sorry + $10 postage. The Bracket set will be an additional $15 with the torch or $20 for the brackets alone.Image

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:22 pm
by GJS
Cheers Evan, looks good It'll be hard to resist! :D

Glenn

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:03 pm
by badger74
badger74 wrote:Still waiting.........15 days now.....not shipped yet :(
:( My order now shipped, except for the torch!! which is the main bit I want!!!. 24 days so far, and Im supposed to be doing some serious bunny busting over the long weekend.
Not-so-good-deal...extreme.

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:51 pm
by 500Nitro
badger74 wrote:
badger74 wrote:Still waiting.........15 days now.....not shipped yet :(
:( My order now shipped, except for the torch!! which is the main bit I want!!!. 24 days so far, and Im supposed to be doing some serious bunny busting over the long weekend.
Not-so-good-deal...extreme.

Price, quality and Delivery - you can always have 2 but not 3 at the same time.

You get what you pay for.

Re: Tactical lights

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:55 pm
by kjd
W many days would you have had a wolfeyes now? Hehehehe