+1 on the Ultrafire HD2010 but the hot spot on the Jacobs A60 Throws further it’s an amazing light for $14.70
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Have you looked at the trustfire x8?
That’s my light for taking the dogs out / work / whatever, you can set it up to use a single 18650. It has a much smaller diameter lens without sacrificing much in the throw category.
On a related note, looking around for a small pocket thrower, any aspheric pencil beam torches to kick around in this discussion?
The Jacobs A60 throws a tight beam with some spill… Great light…for less than $15.00
The UltraFire 980L is a great little light, fits nicely in a pocket and while you may not consider it a dedicated thrower, it does put a lot of light out at a very reasonable distance. I have one and it is about my favourite light right now. I have not compared it at long distance with my UF 2010, or X9, but up to 100 meters or so there is not much between them I feel. The 2010 has a tighter hot spot for sure but it’s not something I would feel comfortable with in my pocket for long
I also have one of the cheaper clones of the 980L , which is very nearly as good as the original and less than half the price, THIS ONE .
The same seller has the same light without batteries and charger for around $20 AUD. To my eye, the 980L has a slightly better colour, a bit warmer tint wise, and a slightly better beam, a little smaller spot and better focus. Very marginal though considering the price difference. The clone I have is also branded UltraFire, but on the battery tube, which has three rounded flats like the X9 I have. I think the X9 is a great torch too, but a bit long to be pocket friendly.
Yeppers!
You can’t find a better thrower for the price. I doubt you will find a $30 light that will beat it in throw. And quite possibly a $40 light as well.
throw better than the smallsun zy-c10s, which is a zoomie and very well loved?
Yes, I think it does plus it gives you some spill. I have both lights.
If you can deal with the weight, HD2010—end of discussion! 
Cargo pocket will handle it fine enough. High-ballin’, bad-@ss light all the way! No joke!
I too have both the Small Sun ZY-C10-S (zoomable) and the Jacob A60 (reflectored) and prefer the latter for the nicer beam.
On my luxmeter they both read about 60 kcd and don’t have the distracting corona/spill of many XM-L throwers.
Worth noting, though, that the Jacob A60 is hard driven and due to that (combined with poor heatsinking) service life may be reduced. For not too long bursts it’s great. I use it daily.
Sipik SK98 or for more throw find an xpe like this one from Meritline
I ordered one last Thursday, i’ve been missing aspheric lights in my collection 
This’ll tide me over till I decide what I want
what about the more expensive lights i listed?? or are these not as good and overpriced or something??
I think the thing is, there’s little point paying more than necessary, and the hd2010 seems to beast pretty much everything anyway, welcome btw, another brit 8)
And I guess in this forum it is the budget offerings that we rant about 
So yes the original list of yours would seem overpriced compared to the 15 dollar jacobs or 13 dollar smallsun C10.
But I am sure others will chime in here. Have fun though and I do hope you find what you need.
Of the ones you listed, the Klarus and the Olight would be my choices. The Thrunite tn11 has had problems, the tk35 is rather bulky and is more flood than throw.
The best throwy pocket ish light I ever had was the Streamlight Supertac. Bulky head but still not as large as the Fenix tk35. The Supertac was a 135 lumens, the new SupertacX is 200 lumens and has over 40k candella (which is good) the old Supertac was 38k candella I think. I don’t know how that translates to Lux but I do know that that’s a tight beam, few hundred yards no prob
You might want to check out this style of light. Kramer5150 reviewed his version here. Viffer750 and I both bought ours on ebay which came with a different driver than the MXDL version. Viffer made a simple soldering change on the driver that kicks it to 3.8A tail cap draw and 45kcd of throw. He has beamshots of it destroying some other lights that cost 2 times as much (Ultrafire D1-8) all in a tiny, awesome looking little torch. For $23 you can't go wrong!
I modded mine with a 3A Nanjg v2 with moonlight - med - high and it's almost as nice as the HD2010 at throwing. With the original driver and wire relocation to bring it to 3.5-3.8A it would be even closer.
I think it's hard to beat the Small Sun with a modded driver. Only 1.4A stock. If it ties with the A60 before, it will be better after. Plus it's a zoomie, so more versatile.
Ordered a jacobs a60 because of this thread. Thanks guys!
If I didn’t know better I might think some of you get commissions from DX its a conspiracy man! Haha
Where did you order your a60 from?
DX?
so is that jacob a60 best for dx thrower or what?