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As a home inspector (now retired) I was a flashlight junkie. Used the regular battery Maglights, then switched to rechargeable Maglites Both home and car chargers.
But I got tired of having several pounds of metal hanging off my hip.
I started using C123 rechargeable flashlights, and then moved up to rechargeable 18650 battery units. I have several Fenix brands, as well as a bunch of other off brands. I would never go back to old D cell flashlights, or conversional battery lights. The LED flashlights are so much brighter!
We have a flashlight in each car, on each nightstand, and hanging next to each exterior door.
By the way, just about all tactical style flashlights have a strobe feature that is much more effective than trying to go tow to toe with an intruder armed with a large flashlight for a weapon. If push came to shove, the ends of a tactical flashlight could do a lot of damage.
All that said, the big Maglight did save me from a dog that was attacking me.
As a home inspector (now retired) I was a flashlight junkie. Used the regular battery Maglights, then switched to rechargeable Maglites Both home and car chargers.
But I got tired of having several pounds of metal hanging off my hip.
I started using C123 rechargeable flashlights, and then moved up to rechargeable 18650 battery units. I have several Fenix brands, as well as a bunch of other off brands. I would never go back to old D cell flashlights, or conversional battery lights. The LED flashlights are so much brighter!
We have a flashlight in each car, on each nightstand, and hanging next to each exterior door.
By the way, just about all tactical style flashlights have a strobe feature that is much more effective than trying to go tow to toe with an intruder armed with a large flashlight for a weapon. If push came to shove, the ends of a tactical flashlight could do a lot of damage.
All that said, the big Maglight did save me from a dog that was attacking me.
Several years ago I was walking our 6 lb chihuahua when a large dog came to attack. I hit the strobe on the flashlight (with lens set to wide) and the dog froze in his tracks. He could t see unless he turned away from us.
Several years ago I was walking our 6 lb chihuahua when a large dog came to attack. I hit the strobe on the flashlight (with lens set to wide) and the dog froze in his tracks. He could t see unless he turned away from us.
Im sure it would. I was just relating an experience when all I had was the MagLight.
We do keep a large D battery one in the kitchen cabinet, I have one in my office plus my hub has one on his work bench in the basement
Agree, it's good to keep at least one large flash light. We have the blue, red and silver maglite D battery ones. Too bad they don't make different colors by now. They've held up really well in the 12+ years we've had them except one lost the push button. I contacted Mag lite support today to see if they'll send me a new button
I thought they were well made too until the button fell out of my silver one. I have no clue how it even fell out.
Maglite emailed me today to say they're sending me a replacement button for free and to make sure the info I provided was correct. I made sure to recheck the flashlight serial number so they know exactly which flashlight I have.
Pretty happy to know they'll stand behind my flashlight that I bought before we moved in 2008.
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