I like this for floody, outside around the house stuff. I make a few walks around the perimeter at night. I like it. It’s built like a tank. Over 3000 lumens on a good high drain cell. Nice simple UI. No onboard charging though. If that is a deal breaker I better quit suggesting things. I don’t think I have a single light with onboard charging.
I don’t think the Elzetta brings anything to the table in particular that can justify the $150 price.
I’m also firmly in the camp that doesn’t support thinking of a flashlight as being defensive in any way. I can understand using a flashlight to illuminate and disorient a target, but I don’t think the flashlight is doing the defense. The closest we get is the MagLite effect, where the light is also a baton.
I would get a emisar d4s.
So what happens after the intruder recovers from being blinded by the flashlight? Is the assumption that they will run away? Or is it time for hand-to-hand playtime? Just wondering what the game plan is after this happens.
What’s the reason home defense is your main concern?
If bad things tend to happen in your neighborhood, then what you really need is a new neighborhood.
I can sympathise if someone can’t afford to move to better digs.
Still, I can’t quite figure someone hacking his way through a door with an axe, “Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!”, and the response is to shine him in the face with a flashlight. Mmmmnope, won’t work.
At the very least, pepperspray with dye, a machete, something.
Exactly. I would keep every penny possible in savings to help get out of the neighborhood asap, before something bad does happen.
I want a “sentry” like in “Aliens”…
Ha! I should’ve known there’d be a vid…
It’s very easy to tell someone to move out of a bad neighborhood, even easier to tell a stranger on the internet. But some live in the safest neighborhoods of all of us, and still have home security systems and concealed carries etc. I’d prefer to address OP without assuming nearly so much.
I wasn’t assuming, I was talking from experience.