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NITECORE EDC29 - Powerful 6500 Lumen Flashlight! Search & Rescue Approved
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Apr 12, 2025
Two new lights for me that have become my go-to lights for camping. Nitecore! #survival EDC29 Flashlight: https://bit.ly/4iTXWFT NU25 Headlamp: https://bit.ly/4iU4UL9 Stay Ready Outdoors (Use code TPWTEN2025 for 10% off): https://bit.ly/4iWH6Gx Prepared Wanderer AMAZON STORE: https://bit.ly/3Jjs1iO Prepared Wanderer Patches and Stickers: https://thepreparedwanderer.bigcartel.com Prepared Wanderer WEBSITE: https://preparedwanderer.com
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today's video we're going to be taking a
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look at two lights from a brand that
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I've never used before totally new to me
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we're going to check them out and see
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what I think and I'm going to show you
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how I use these on um an overnight trip
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to the woods so stick around
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[Music]
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all right today's video is all about a
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brand called Nightcore now if you're a
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flashlight geek you probably are very
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familiar with Nycore and I'm sure you
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have your opinions if they're good or
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not but for me Nightcore is new it's
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something uh a brand that I've never
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tried before i have a lot of different
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flashlights and headlamps like of course
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all you know gear geeks do but uh Nyore
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is just a brand that I've never had
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before i don't know why i just never
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picked it up and I recently received um
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one of their headlamps in a kit uh it's
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the ultimate survival kit that I got
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from um Stay Ready Outdoors and that's
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included in their kit is their headlamp
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and that's the Nightcore New 25 and then
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Nightcore
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uh coincidentally just reached out to me
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and said "Would you like to do a review
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and uh check out our stuff and see what
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you would like to look at?" And I picked
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the
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EDC29 which uh is a flashlight that
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really to me seemed a lot different than
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a lot of stuff that I've seen on the
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market recently so I was excited to try
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it and it has some impressive uh specs
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so let's just jump right into this i'm
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going to show you uh the products and
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kind of go run down the features and
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specs and then also cut in some video of
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actually me using these products out in
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the woods because that's how I use
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headlamps and
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flashlights all right so the first
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product we're going to look at is the
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new 25 headlamp um very lightweight it
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has a plastic housing has of course this
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um elastic band headband that has uh
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kind of like a silicone
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um seam on it so that helps it stay on
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your head or on your hat but then it
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also has this very unique
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um bungee cord system with an adjustable
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lock which uh is really nice i found
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when wearing ball caps or
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um let's say like a ski cap uh you're
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able to adjust this thing pretty quickly
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without taking everything on and off and
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so that became very beneficial when I
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was using this um on one of my trips
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and what I like about this light is it's
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very e easy to
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use so we have a very
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bright
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setting it's easy to
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access and then you can tone it
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down or go back up and then of course
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one more click and you're into the red
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mode red light's really important for me
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um I use it a lot uh just because it
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helps preserve my um night vision when
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I'm in the dark you know walking a trail
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or trying to find my tent or something
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i'm not blinding myself with the lights
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the emergency red strobe you can turn
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that on and then you just hold this down
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and everything's off um it is a
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rechargeable light so you're not going
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to um use batteries on this um which I
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don't have a problem with for the most
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part so there's the charging port so
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it's USBC um you know batteries are
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great in a prepping kind of scenario
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because then you can always change those
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you can find batteries but you know
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batteries have a um a shelf life and
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packing batteries on on particularly
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backpacking camping trips it's kind of a
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pain in the butt um I would rather take
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a power bank and then charge my
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electronics um either with the power
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bank or maybe the solar uh power bank
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that I have so it just makes life a lot
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easier being able to charge a device so
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the new 25 uh held up very well did very
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well on the trip um I really enjoyed it
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i think it's a pretty decent headlamp i
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really like uh the features of it now so
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specs on the new 25 it's 400 lumens uh
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with a max uh output of 2 hours it is
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IP66 water resistant and it retails for
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3935 it does come with USBC charging
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cord in the package and I will have a
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link to my Amazon store below if you are
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interested in looking at these a little
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bit closer
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that's pathetic okay now here's here's
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mine are you ready
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you can't even see mine
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the next product we're going to take a
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look at is the EDC29 from Nightcore now
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like I said Nightcore let me pick what I
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wanted to review and I've been looking
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for a pocket flashlight that is a little
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bit different than the standard round
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flashlights i wanted something that's
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thin that I could carry in my pocket and
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clip in my pocket like a like a pocket
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knife um but still had you know decent
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features good throw lots of lumens and
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um I was really blown away by this thing
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it is a beast of a flashlight for sure i
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mean you can just tell there's it's very
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well made but what's interesting about
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it is um it has just some really unique
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features that I haven't seen on other
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lights so one on the side here we have a
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lockout so that's open you're able to
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utilize the light this you're able to
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lock it and that's important if you're
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carrying your um pocket because the max
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output for this um on the highest
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setting is 6,500 lumens and let me tell
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you what um soon as you turn that on you
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feel the heat and you don't want that
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coming on in your pocket so that lockout
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is
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essential it has a very good sturdy
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pocket clip this thing is stiff you're
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not going to lose this thing in your
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pocket that is for sure and then the
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other unique feature and we'll turn the
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lock out off um it actually has an LED
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display screen that shows you uh the
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mode and then how long you've got left
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on that mode and that is pretty neat i
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mean it's just something different um
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you can quickly tell okay this is what
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mode I'm in this is my lumens and this
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is um uh how long it's going to
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take or how long I have
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left so this button the raise button
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this is
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your normal settings so if you hold that
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in and that locks it so we're at 400
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lumens
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and
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then you can step down to
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15 and then go through the modes the
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different brightnesses right 1,200 and
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then if you want to quickly switch to
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the brightest
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setting see that so this that's this
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button right here the big
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button they call that the programmable
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button or the customize button and that
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hit that gives you that search light
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that's the 6,500
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lumens if you hold the search light down
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and then push the other button you get
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your
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strobe and then that has memory so that
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So if I hit that uh button again it's
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going to go into strobe mode and there's
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the modes so there's not a lot of modes
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it's not um super complex uh it's very
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easy to access everything you don't have
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to have like the super memory to figure
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some of these lights out i've had lights
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like that before it's like I don't even
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know where I'm at in the in the features
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to figure this thing out um but when
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you're going to see here in the in the
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video that I'm going to cut into
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this you are going to see how far this
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thing throws and that's really where the
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specs are just amazing this thing at the
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max lumens is uh throwing at 437 yards
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um you have six different levels uh it
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is distance um you have a max run time
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of 2 hours on the on the highest setting
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I believe and these are retailing at
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about
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$109.95 i'll have a link down below in
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my Amazon store if you want to take a
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look at this but um for an EDC light
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that is a little bit different than all
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the rest I think this is a pretty cool
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choice and I've been really enjoying
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having this um in my gear i feel real
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confident with this thing we've had a
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lot of storms lately and I've been
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carrying this around with me and putting
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it in my bags and and I've had it at my
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nightstand in case the power went out
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and um you know I feel very confident
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with this light and of course since it's
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not
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round it's not going to roll so you can
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set this down on a surface and it's not
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going to roll away on you one thing that
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I would have liked to have seen with
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this light is if it was magnetic um a
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lot of the lights are going to that
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where they're including um a magnetized
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base um that's really cool if you're
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working like on a vehicle at night and
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you can you know snap that to the inside
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of your hood and give you um some good
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uh you know work light but um that's
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that's a small feature that I can I can
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probably live without now it does come
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with uh instruction card lanyard uh
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there's also a warranty card in here I
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believe and then of course the USBC
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charging cord uh this is the packaging
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for
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it pretty cool light so just so you can
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see the size of this thing in my hand
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this you know it's it's substantial it's
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a It's a It's a pretty good size
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flashlight but the
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ergonomics of it being flat um it fits
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my hand perfectly and I would say this
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is a very similar in size to a pistol
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magazine so there should be a lot of
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pouches that this thing fits into pretty
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easily um you know clip this into your
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your tactical gear uh your backpack uh
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EDC whatever however you want to utilize
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it but I think this is definitely a
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great choice especially with that search
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light that to me um is something I wish
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I had you know 15 years ago when I was
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in search and rescue i could have really
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used a search light like that where you
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want to scan a field really quickly and
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see how far or see what's out there and
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then the headlamp
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um like I said
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pretty
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easy to adjust
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so you just pull that tight got the
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little button back there and of course
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you've got an angle on this so you can
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aim it at your work
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area but
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um nice little
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light lightweight comfortable um you
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know headlamps you don't want them to be
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overly
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heavy uh because if you're wearing them
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all evening long in camp they you I've
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at least I get like a headache you get
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that pressure headache because it's it's
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heavy and you have the band on it's
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tight so with this I can loosen this
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pretty quickly easily can adjust it as I
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need it and you know the light since
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it's in a plastic housing um is very
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lightweight um but it's it held up well
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you know rumaging around on my pack with
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it um for the weekend so I've been
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pretty satisfied with
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it all right I want to thank Nycore for
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sending me the EDC flashlight thank you
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very much uh pretty cool product i'm
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very satisfied with it and now my
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curiosity is peaked with Nycore products
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i definitely going to check out more of
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them and add some more to my um my
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collection of lights and then also Stay
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Ready Outdoors for sending me the
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survival kit that had the headlamp in it
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i was able to test that out uh there
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