There are only a handful of lights I've ever reviewed where I had written the review and before I posted "something came up" that caused me to realize I had to scrap my review and start over because I wasn't doing the light justice.
I had a 2 hour "dog search" with the BLF-Q8 in some pretty rough country and it was amazing.
So the BLF-Q8 "Real World Review" is delayed until I am able to whip up prose adequate to the performance of the light.
Oh and as a side note. I know a lot of folks say go unprotected and so forth for max performance, but I have 4 of these EBL 18650 in my light and I've been very happy with how they are playing together.
I do recommend that you commit the batteries to the light as a set though just to keep the use balance equaled out 'cause on high power the light sure does draw on the cells hard.
My Q8 was a bit of a novelty for me until I swapped the XP-Ls for 219Cs. I’m always amazed at how everything pops out in the woods at night instead of just being a dull drab brown. Plus it’s still pretty damn bright (~3800 turn-on lumens).