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packina45 wrote:
NO WARNING when your battery is getting low. Light will be full bright, turn it off, and it won't turn back on. Dead batteries.

ALL LED lights are like this. You may want to carry a spare el cheapo (Harbor Freight $4) LED flashlight. I find them barely acceptable for "tactical" use. They illuminate into visibility about 20-25 ft away. They are not waterproof nor are they shock proof. However, they are LED, have a click switch in the back where other tactical lights have a momentary on switch. They work in a pinch or on a very tight budget. A spare flashlight weighs only one ounce and take up one half inch more space than just the batteries, so it would be better to have a spare flashlight instead of a spare battery only because when seconds count, you can't be fumbling with changing batteries.

I have an ultrafire. It has more features than the surefire, BUT the ultrafire has a clickey button to cycle through the different functions such as strobe, high light, low light, etc. The surefire has a silent momentary on switch which is more stealthy. The surefire that I have is the old light bulb one, not the new led one. It is not very reliable because the light bulb may break if you subject it to hard impacts. The ultrafire that I got was a defective one. The ebay seller did send me another one to replace the defective one. I did not have to mail the old one back to china (seller was in china). However, after they sent me the good one, i subjected it to rain, mud, and hard impacts without affecting it's reliability.

I prefer the ultrafire to the surefire because it is a led and there is no bulb to burn out. Also, it is very light on energy consumption so the battery lasts forever.

See my tactical flashlght review:
http://www.texaschlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=29067

For your price range, I suggest getting a used one from ebay. Flashlights have no moving parts and if you buy an LED light, there is no lighbulb to burn out, either. So, a used one would be just as good as a new one.