Tactical Flashlights

10 Best Headlamps (2023 Update) Buyer’s Guide

A good headlamp is an essential backpacking or camping item. A headlamp is great for finding small items in a crowded backpack and ensuring a safe trip out of your tent to use the restroom in the middle of the night.

Headlamps also come in handy to light up hard-to-see places when working on your car or trying to find that lonesome box of family memorabilia that you stored in the crawl space under the house 10 years ago.
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By Scott, ago

Solaray Pro ZX-1 tactical flashlight review

The Solaray Pro ZX-1 is a reliable, bright, and authentic tactical flashlight that will perform when you need it.

Solaray’s motto is “We’ll never leave you in the dark.” And that rings true with this flashlight. Ranked as the best value, the Pro ZX-1 tactical series will quickly be your favorite light.

Solaray is a dependable American brand with a 6 month warranty. For the price, it is difficult to find this kind of quality in a tactical flashlight.
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By Scott, ago

10 Best Tactical Flashlights (2022 Update) Buyer’s Guide

A quality tactical flashlight will come in handy for a wide variety of uses. They’ve always been useful for emergency or tactical situation, but they’re also becoming more popular for camping. Hunters, mechanics, and many others also make regular use of tactical flashlights to illuminate their immediate areas. The largest benefit of a tactical flashlight is that it will hold up to the rigors of a rough-and-tumble lifestyle much longer than a traditional flashlight or headlamp.  (more…)

By Scott, ago

Using a Tactical Flashlight as a Self-Defense Tool

The world has not been this polarized since the 1980s. Today, any sense of accommodation and camaraderie is a distant memory. You either agree with someone or you’re the moral equivalent of Hitler. Combine that with economic turmoil caused by lockdowns, widespread rioting, police departments being gutted by defunding, and vaccine mandates and things are tense to say the least.

In such an environment the average person needs a dependable way to defend themselves if they are beset in a dark parking garage or if they get caught in the middle of a looting mob (1) emboldened by the adoption of no-bail systems in various states (2). Enter the tactical flashlight. (more…)

By Rich Chambers, ago