I received my Mk. 1 Turned Titanium Beagle today. I have to say there are a couple of things that are troublesome for me about the light, and the only reason I want to post them here is to find out as people receive their lights, is anyone else having the same perceptions as I am. I am a collector of over 300 flashlights, with many of the high end lights such as McGizmos, Tains, Prometheus, Luters, TNCs, Tranquility Base, 4 other Muyshondts (some also titanium), etc. I always considered Muyshondt lights to be at the upper end if not the pinnacle of quality both in machining and electronics. At least that is what Muyshondt seems to be shouting from the mountain tops with their advertising and the literature that comes with the light.
Sorry for the long intro - now to the issues. I charged the battery that I ordered with the light and took off the tail cap, inserted the battery, and ran the light through its 5 modes. Nice beam combos with the light and pleasant tint. But the reverse clicky seems ultra sensitive. You depress the button till it clicks to turn on the light, then slightly (ever so slightly) press the button to change modes with an audible squeak from the internals of the switch, but even with being somewhat experienced with the other 300 lights I own, I accidentally pressed a hair too far and clicked the light off on several occasions. This seems way too sensitive to needing the button barely pressed in and at least for me resulted in numerous mis presses and turning the light off. More than on any other light I own.
The second issue I noticed is the super easy possibility of cross threading the threads when twisting on the tail cap. On any new light I am super careful to be very ginger with the turning force, and try to be just as super careful to properly angle the tail cap so that cross threading is avoided. I'm very sensitive about messing up threads and have never done it on a light yet. If I notice the slightest possibility of cross threading I immediately back the cap off and restart. But on this light the first time I took the battery out and wanted to wipe down the light I started to put the tail cap on and gave it a few twists while I thought I was holding the cap perfectly square to the body, the cap went on a couple of twists and then seemed like it hit a stop way before it was even a quarter of the way on. I backed the cap off and tried again and was able to properly tighten the tail cap all the way. I took it off again and this time tried being even more careful to properly twist it on without cross threading, and the same thing happened again. While I am able to properly tighten the tail cap most of the time, there are just too many times where as careful as I am to keep everything square and gingerly twist it on, the threads get cross threaded - or so it seems. I thought there was possibly a burr or something on either part of the threads, but I can't see or feel anything, and when it goes on properly there doesn't seem to be any burr scraping, I would assume a burr would be detected with every attempt. And when I look at the threads with a bright light and magnifying glass I don't see anything that could be causing this.
I realize I am not perfect, and there is a possibility that I am just plain not threading the tail cap on properly on the occasions when I have these problems, but like I said I don't have this problem with any other of the high end lights I own. In fact the Prometheus Blue Label light is famous for Jason's unreal smooth threads (I realize the material is aluminum VS Titanium on the Beagle with titanium almost always having more gritty threads) but I don't think I could cross thread that light even if I tried to. Extremely unlikely to cross thread any of my McGizmo lights. Same goes for all of the other high end manufacturers I listed earlier.
I'm really not interested in returning this light because there is the possibility that it is a defective user as opposed to a defective light. But I would be interested in hearing if anybody else has found the same issues as I did and if this disappointed them also.