On the plus side, this definitely makes some of the other light builders seem more legitimate…at least Solarforce or whatever hasn’t put out one of these.
So glad the R&D time on this wasn’t wasted on, say, a narrow 1-battery pistol light for CCW that would compete with the TLR-3 and now the Inforce APL, like I’ve been waiting for for two years. No, totally, let’s build a $500 headlamp but with a much smaller strap, that’s a way better use of our time and money.
If Surefire made this in a diving version, with this output and size, it wouldn’t be such a bad price for that. Canister lights with a wrist output can cost $1500-2000+ for good ones for tech diving. For just a light on land- seems a bit much…
I still don’t know who at surefire thought this was a good idea. I can see the utility in a dive application, or perhaps if you were some kind of cave explorer or coal miner but otherwise this is a bit retarded.
I use one on my fire gear but I use the streamlight one very handy in a burn if you drop a tool
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Surefire Fury (~$110) + strip of duct tape = Bam, 500 lumen wrist light.
That’s bang for your buck right there.
$495 on EE right now or trade for 1 used non-windowed PMag. Kidding.
For that price the wrist device should include a flux capacitor and teleport me anwhere in the time space continuum.
I’m puzzled as to why this hasn’t happened, yet.
Current LED emitter tech is so badass, you can get LOADS of output from a single 123 cell. A slim, light, low-profile pistol light seems like a no-brainer.
Yeah, it’s absolutely beyond me as well. I thought for sure we’d see it at SHOT last year…nope.
Even more strangely I have found that I am often shot down when suggesting it, and everyone who does the shooting talks about the need for ever-greater amounts of light from their 2-cell lights…as though that somehow means that a narrow single-cell light isn’t also useful.
I would think that with the increasing popularity of carrying concealed, a narrow 1-cell light from Surefire would be the single most obvious development in the history of obvious developments…but so far, no, that’s been up to Streamlight and Inforce.
I could see this being designed as an alternative for agencies that prohibit pistol-mounted lights. That said, $500 could pay for a lot of practice with a pistol and a handheld light.
Lol! Unless it shoots lasers (the Star Wars kind) or Spiderman webs, I’ll pass.
Wish they’d put this much effort into X300’s anodized in FDE.
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$500 wrist light designed for cops? No thanks.
I feel like less of a man with my Petzl Zipka on my wrist. Wait a minute, no I don’t because that thing only cost me 50 bucks.
A new model, the 2211x, that takes regular surefire batteries and costs way less than original.
http://www.surefire.com/2211x-wristlight.html
Anybody have one? I am thinking that instead using for your wrist, you could strap it to the forearm of a long-gun that had no rail.
Hmm… It seems the direction of the light is not straight out, but at an angle, so probably would not work for anything but navigation.
The robust, always accessible 2211X is the lightest weight, most affordable member of SureFire’s category-redefining WristLight family.
Category-redefining? Was there a wrist light category before SureFire forayed into this folly? We can’t sell the expensive ones so we’ll make an affordable one.
yes, they’re used for diving and tunneling. although i don’t think the surefire really defeats other contenders that are more well established in this genre of lighting… lots of the diving lights are very serious output (they have to perform in the dark ocean depths) and they’re significantly overbuilt for submersion.