Best Flashlight

[DesertDude]

I sure like Coleman aluminum body flashlights. I have a 700 lumin (6xaa). A couple of the 200 lumin small (3xaaa). All work great and don't break the bank   Led has sure made a big difference

[hunt it]

Fenix PD35 with the charger and 1860's is the way to go 975 lumen in very small package. Bright white light for blood trailing. Personally I find the cheap blue light from most low quality lights makes blood trailing very difficult. The yellow light from 6vlt lantern would never cut it with me. Coleman lantern is better option if you want to haul some big a$$ thing around.

[toddster]

awesome information, I usually use a few different lights when I blood trail,  I have a fenix headlamp and a fenix handheld.  I keep a incadecent light in my pack at all times.  Why?  Well, LED lights are great unless fog or smoke, then it just whites out, having high beams on in fog, (why firemen use them), I found this out the hard way tracking a trail in fog one morning.  If I had a choice of a light for tracking a blood trail, it would hands down be a coleman lantern, but hard to carry one hunting.

[LB_hntr]

I have now owned surefire, fenix, eagle tac, 4 sevens, oloight, jetbeam and zebralight. All good lights.
Here is how its all ended up for me.
Zebralight best headlamps available... Period.
Eagletac..Best flashlight ever used (now own 6 of them)
Fenix gave to a buddy.
Olight in tackel box
Surefire sold
Nitecore in truck
Armytek on boat.
Jetbeam gave to daughter.

Ive been into lights for 5 years pretty hardcore as I rely on them so much.
Imo. Best flash light eagle tac. Best headlamp zebralight.
Nothing else will be in my pack until something better comes out.

[olddogrib]

x2 on the EagleTac. I believe mine's a D25 that a couple years old now, so I'm sure there's a better version out by now! Whatever you get, go for what I believe the manufacturers refer to as neutral or natural white.