There are lots of ways to carry your light .... Pocket , key chain,clip, necklace,holster, pouch.. whats your method of carry.
One of my favorite yet less obvious is to clip any light with a clip on your collar a little behind your ear and the flip the shining part facing out .It always makes me feel like the Terminator or like i have a flip out rocket launcher on my shoulder ala Robo- Cop or Inspector Gadget .It works really well on almost any size light when you need both hands free. I like that it doesn't cause reflection off of me and it's out of my peripheral vision ...and it's simple.
So tell us your preferred method of carry or some neat trick you've uncovered to connect or use your light .
Before having all this clips and fancy headlights etc, I just tuck my light halfway on shirt collar on my shoulder, facing forward (maybe like you).
I do this during night fishing mostly. It did amaze people in the dark, looking at a guy with light coming out of his shoulder. Only when they come closer to have a look, and then get somewhat disappointed seeing it’s just another flashlight in a shirt. Maybe they thought it was some new gadget or something…
I wear “business casual” clothes to work, & despise the ugly “belt cancer” caused by cellphones, etc. But I need to get the light out quickly and repeatedly.
SWMBO used her incroyable skills to sew a stitch along the lower-front edge of my RH pockets, “big enough” so my 501b can easily drop into it, and she stopped before she got to the bottom so change, etc. can slip out. Standing, sitting, or climbing a radio tower, you can’t really tell it’s in there, but I can have it out and running before you can say “let there be light”. When I’m not carrying a light, it’s not really in the way as I don’t put much in my pockets anyway.
The F20s I carry as backup can be clipped to the top of that stitch; but I usually clip them inside a different pocket. If I wore a watch, I’d clip an F20 to the inside of the watch band so it would put its quaint little light where my fingers are.
Your collar idea is great!
When I’m wearing a hard hat, if I need light a lot, I’ll zip-strip one or the other to one of the hearing-protection slots on the side.
I keep a Niteye JA10 (right-angled light) clipped to the outside of a shirt pocket. If I’m carrying something other than the JA10, it’s usually in my left-side pant pocket. Pocket clip is a must for all my EDC lights.
I’ll have to look through my lights and see if any of them would work with that collar carry.
I carry at least 5 flashlights on a normal working day:
I carry my 4Sevens Maelstrom X10 in its pouch at the right side of my waist (attached to my belt);
I carry my Zinc Coating Brass Keychain Light (freebie when I bought my BTU Shocker from Ric) attached to my ID hung around my neck;
I carry my TrustFire Mini-02 which is attached to my keys in my belt bag;
I carry my UltraFire M5 in the small pocket of my back pack;
then I carry my Convoy S8 in the side pocket of my back pack;
I don’t carry a light clipped in the side pockets of my jeans because both pockets each have pocket knives in them. :bigsmile:
I usually clip carry a small keychain light with my keys and an AAA in one of my front pant pockets. Usually carry a couple big lights in what ever car I'm using.
For usage outside, I usually use a headlamp and have a big flashlight in hand if needed.
My wife also carries a small keychain light with her keys and a 26650 tube light in her purse. Can't convince her to go smaller ever since they lost power where she works. The bathrooms have no windows there. So all her coworkers used her light to go to the bathroom. She cares an SRK and 3D Maglite in her car. Keeps a Darth Shadow on her night stand at home and an SRK on her night stand at her grandparent's house.
I carry my light in my hand, coat pocket or handbag depending. I think this limitation has helped me stick to what is necessary. For the larger 18650 lights I’d like a holster just to protect other things in my bag from it, though it will probably just add bulk and deployment fuss. :~
Collar clip thing works amazingly well with a clip that attaches either direction .
I've tried a headlamp on a lanyard .You need a lanyard you can tighten up looped around the headlamp holder and tightened up ..I have a zebralight not attached to a head band just in the soft rubber holder ....Hung around your neck you end up with light coming out from your solarplexus
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After a while I can get tired of wearing a headlamp because it will heat up and start bugging me so I just pull it down around my neck where it is loose ,a lot more comfortable and still works well . Sometimes I think I like this better than wearing it as a headband . ..
this is an easy mod
even noobs can do it with a little practice .
- step one .
buy expensive headlamp
- step two
put on head
-Step three (this is the hard part)
p u l l d o w n w a r d
* If you feel any pain ...stop immediately and seek professional medical attention
This is how I wear my headlamps, I hate the pressure the factory bands put on your head so I use a piece of paracord and a cord lock-
(the dark spot is the cord lock)
As for my EDC, I carry one light (usually my Quark QP2L) in a holster I made out of recycled seat belts and I carry my smaller EDC (usually my Fenix E12) loose in my left front pocket. I never clip lights to my pocket, light clips are to weak to not bend and I loose them.
LOL! Can’t help it. If only there was a way to carry my BTU Shocker with ease wherever I go and have it properly concealed, I could have added that to my EDC long ago. :8)
