Depends what you need. A bright light that’s an Überthrower will reach nice and far, but to get that bright, even mild spill will be overpowering up-close and probably ruin your night-vision enough to not be able to see what’s so far downrange.
A zoomie will get a nice tight hotspot, with near-zero spill, but when zoomed, light output is maybe a third of full-flood output. So a 1000lm light when on full-flood will be only 300lm or so when zoomed and projecting the Bat Signal™.
Even shooting through trees, all the woodwork a dozen yards out will be so overly bright and washed out that what’s way out in the hole will be completely dark.
That said, Maxtoch has the rep of being designed by hunters for hunters, so look into them.
The Convoy L2 is kinda the Queen of Throw of reflector lights. Can’t go wrong with one.
For a power-zoomie, dunno, but is it Brynite that makes one? For a compact light, an SK98 takes an 18650 cell, and you can stuff the area under the pill with copper-shot and solder, and/or filled JB Weld to help with thermal conductivity, to wick away heat from the LED to the case and outside world. Lotta ’98 clones are crap, but you can get a good one.
The HS-802 has a nice deep reflector to minimise spill, and actually comes with red- or green LEDs if you want to go a-killin’. White, too, if you want. 
I got a coupla these, and while they’re not lumen-monsters, they can throw colored light pretty far.