Thread: Head torches

Looking to buy a new head torch and wondering what people prefer, pros and cons!!

0-light if you want something great but not cheap

Glo Worm

Made in NZ

Zebralight.
Or talk to Jacob, Percing the darkness, he has a few options, including Nitecore.
https://www.piercingthedarkness.co.nz/headlamps
If yiu haven't already, get into some good 18650 batteries.

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I’d steer away from anything with external wiring from the battery pack to the light module as in my experience this is a weakness and likely to get damaged.

Haven’t had a good run with led lenser, too delicate for hunting I think. Currently have a Fenix HM65R which seems good but quite expensive. Have also had a good run with a Maxtoch but pretty sure they’re not made any more.

+1 for piercing the darkness and agree, the wiring seems to be a weak link. Had 3 ledlenser all die due to wiring issues

LED Lenser SE07r is awesome, small, bright and comes with a rechargeable battery or you can use 3x aaa

I guess I'm the lucky one with led lenser as my one has been going strong coming up six years but the Mrs one had the switch die a short while ago. Have maxtoch to which get a lot of use for everyday stuff and are solid.

I would definitely look at something with 18650 battery.

I have LED Lenser and Black Diamond. I prefer ones that take AA batteries, as that is what my GPS takes, so I can carry 8 spare rechargeable batteries in my pack and it covers them all.
The LED Lenser with two light levels and focusable beam is my favourite.

2 led lensers over ten years one a couple

Live off grid and in the early days ran 12 volt only, with headlamps for general illumination till I developed proper power for the house. The Led lensers were a continual weak point. Went through 3 or 4 under warrentee till humping and fisting said no more warentee claims, you are too hard on them. I said I never use it hunting, it sits on my bedside table and is used only for illumination around our off grid house. Never buy one again. Expensive and too delicate as others have said.
My Maxtoch is still going strong after 5 years, both hunting, around the home or working on the trucks etc etc. But bugger, they don't make them any more.

May have to get a stand by unit from Fennix or Nitecore. Have to have red led for me.

Pretty sure from memory my Fenix doesn’t have red led’s, but the Maxtoch does.

I would suggest looking at all the gear you carry that requires batteries and try to buy stuff that uses the one battery type - cuts down on the number of spare batteries you need to carry. At one stage I was carrying 3 different types of spares, but tried to move to gear that only used 18650’s as these have a good power to weight ratio, are not too expensive, and are rechargeable.

Been a bit of drift recently though as I bought my son a Ravin crossbow with an Olight and a Garmin X1i crossbow sight which of course have different battery types.

I’ve also had a couple Led Lenser SEO7r headlamps via Flybuys but the rechargeable batteries are crap so you need to carry spare AAA’s.

Fenix 16R

@mudgripz @gadgetman would be good to ask for advice on this one....

I’ve been using the Chinese aliexpress ones for rabbit shooting at night. Switches between red and normal light.
A bit like this one https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000236220973.html
Probably not the best but it is cheap and the last one I bought lasted 5 years before it started to fail.