We attended a class yesterday devoted to home protection and gun safety. One of the topics they taught had to do with equipment for the home. Of course, we already have firearms but we need to research some of the other tactical gear that we ought to have on hand.
UPDATE Image: Smith & Wesson Galaxy 13 LED Flashlight. This is the model we ordered.
The course instructor advised that if we’re going to have firearms handy that it is a very good idea to have a high-quality flashlight on hand to aid in locating and identifying potential targets. Not the cheap Chinese crap that you find at the discount stores, but a good, reliable and BRIGHT tactical flashlight similar to those used by military and law enforcement. Pursuant to that end, I have started a ‘wish list’ on a well-known on-line retailer site where I have entered several candidate flashlights. Over the next few days, Damsel and I will down-select to a single flashlight and then order two of them. One for her and one for myself.
Surefire flashlights are good, solid lights, and they have some tactical lights as well.
I saw some Surefire tactical flashlights on MidwayUSA. They were nice but a little more expensive than we expected.
I’ve tried several of these multi-LED flashlights at the “Low Light” course I took.
I tossed them all into the car and went back to my SureFire!
You can get SureFire flashlights on eBay, from reputable sellers, for much less than what the big sporting goods places charge.
We have a couple of different flashlights on order. Crotalus also recommended SureFire (thanks Mr. C) so if we see a bargain somewhere, we might just pick up a couple of those and sell the others at one of our gun shows.