Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Backpack Hunting Zebralight: Flood or Floody?

To recap the Zebralight website for its headlamps:

Beam type: Flood = 120 degrees

Beam type: Floody (frosted lens)= 90 degrees

This would be for outdoor use; hunting and recreation.

For those who favor floods over spots, which of these seem to be the more useful in y'alls' experience of Zebralight headlamps?

In this open country, when heading back to camp in the dark more often than not a long zoom is more useful than a flood. I prefer a light with an adjustable zoom.

Funny, I'm was contemplating the exact same question yesterday. Since I already have the standard (non flood) beam 600, I'm going with the 120 degree flood (602). For hiking in the dark, the standard beam is where its at, but around camp, home, etc. I want a flood with the 18650 battery. I currently have the flood version in the 123 battery (302) and love it.

ct:

I agree with you when it comes to using a spot on the trails. I also get it about floods.

I've just never seen a "floody" with a frosted lens, and I wonder about them. Aside from the narrower angle over the regular flood, what's the advantage for those who use them, I wonder.

I'm also asking on the candlepower forum, but of course I would ask here, too, where there's outdoorsmen of known experience.

I've read on one of the flashlight forums that if you have a standard beam, you can make it a floody by putting a piece of scotch tape over the lens.

I've got a 600w standard beam, like it a lot. Haven't tried the tape trick because the standard beam seems to work well for everything.

Another option to look at is the Armytek Wizard. It has settings from .5 lumans to 1100 lumans. You can get it in cool white or bright light. On the trail at night it provides good light for the trail and brush and around camp or in the tent you can adjust the brightness. It runs on 18650 battery. On the middle settings around 500 lumans I have used it for about 6 months without recharging the battery. and yes the scotch tape thing works but you have to be careful about how hot the lens gets or it will melt the tape to the lens and it is a pain to get off.

Blu:

I hadn't looked at Armytek before. I just looked at their site. They've got three models of the wizard, and the photos show a textured, kind of pebbled lens cover. Not clear, like the Zebralight H600w Mk II.

"TIR optics with light angles 70°:120° for wide light without a “tunnel vision” effect"

Looks like scotch tape might be a little redundant on your light.

Interesting, though. I'll look into that a little further.