Flashlight Thread!

[BillGates]

Check out Surefire or Streamlight flashlights. Maglights are a freaking joke after you use this type. There's a reason police/military use the ones I mentioned - they're BRIGHT. (I actually got my Surefire as a gift from a police officer I worked with)

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Check out Surefire or Streamlight flashlights. Maglights are a freaking joke after you use this type. There's a reason police/military use the ones I mentioned - they're BRIGHT. (I actually got my Surefire as a gift from a police officer I worked with)

While I would like to save up and get one for tactical training, I don't have the money to justify one right now.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: yamahaXS

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: yamahaXS
Your job requires a flashlight and they don't pay for your batteries? bastages...

why not just set yourself up with some rechargables?

They provide us with sh!tty flashlights... it's just better if we get our own. The division we work for is also one of the most mismanaged agencies of the university.

You might be able to convince them to buy better flashlights if you work out an analysis of total cost. Give it to your boss and let him take credit, you get the flashlight you want for free.

Trust me, that's not gonna happen. Our department (Parking Services) was supposed to pay for new work T-Shirts that we were supposed to have at the beginning of last semester, and we still haven't gotten them. We generate literally thousands of dollars in revenue for them every night, and we are constantly increasing our numbers, they are just so mismanaged that they wind up with nothing for us.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: Rogue

Originally posted by: agnitrate

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
I like my Mag.

Mags are good and cheap, but a 4D light only has about an hour of battery life. I'd be getting killed paying for D batteries all the time 🙁

-silver

Do you keep it on constantly? If not, then a Maglite will be just fine. Besides, you don't want to keep it on all the time anyway. Criminals have learned to shoot center mass at the origin of the light to kill cops now. That's why you turn it on and off frequently, etc. I can go for months without having to change mine out when I was working swing shifts.

We usually don't get shot at.

I jst found another thing I love about my job.

I NEVER get shot at.😀

"we usually don't get shot at is a little too often for me😛

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: yamahaXS
You might be able to convince them to buy better flashlights if you work out an analysis of total cost. Give it to your boss and let him take credit, you get the flashlight you want for free.

No way is that going to happen. In order for anything to get done around here it has to be approved by everyone and their brother. By the time approval is completed, Macbaine and agnitrate will have graduated.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Rogue

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: Rogue

Originally posted by: agnitrate

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
I like my Mag.

Mags are good and cheap, but a 4D light only has about an hour of battery life. I'd be getting killed paying for D batteries all the time 🙁

-silver

Do you keep it on constantly? If not, then a Maglite will be just fine. Besides, you don't want to keep it on all the time anyway. Criminals have learned to shoot center mass at the origin of the light to kill cops now. That's why you turn it on and off frequently, etc. I can go for months without having to change mine out when I was working swing shifts.

We usually don't get shot at.

Then I guess you haven't written enough tickets yet! Get out there and revenue damnit! 😀

Seriously though, a mini-Maglite should be more than sufficient. Get some rechargeable batteries for it and you're good to go. I have a large flashlight for security checks, etc. and a small one for when I write tickets or do paperwork so that I can hold it with a finger or two or hold the end in my mouth or whatever. Considering what you use them for, a mini-Maglite should suffice then carry a larger 3D or 4D cell one on a belt loop or something.

I have a mini mag as a backup, but I like using an actual mag a lot more... brighter, and it's really our only defense in the event that something does happen.

 

[Rufio]

mags suck
surefire rocks