I just Malkoff'd a Maxfire last week. Actually works pretty good with no modification.
That's interesting. Wouldn't expect such a swap without modifications.
I think the Pentagon X3 was pretty good at the time. Really really good throw for a 135 lumen light bulb. And the Pentagon eX2 was a nice cop light.
Not as stellar as the 6P and 9P were, but not bad attempts.
PL's hand-helds were good but below SureFire. Their weapon-lights were a completely different story. A strong competitor against SF's offerings back then... Which is why SF used the legal system to put PL out of business, despite never actually having proven its claims of patent infringement nor claims of PL mot making its lights in America.
Quite frankly, the judge was an idiot in the case for not seeing that SureFire's attorneys were blatantly using him. Claiming patent infringement. Wanting a competitor to stop making lights that allegedly use your patent. Having proved nothing regarding the allegation. Asking a judge to grant an injunction so your competitor can't make those lights while the trial is going on. And the judge says, "Oh okay."
What a joke. So, SureFire got what they wanted.... without ever actually having proved a single allegation. Not being able to make more product. Not being able to sell existing stock. Obviously the company went out of business and couldn't afford to fight SureFire in court. PL was not found guilty of anything. SureFire killed one of its biggest competitors in the weapon-lights market by using the legal system as its Working Girl. (Actually another word for that type of profession also starting with "W" would be more appropriate. But this is a family friendly forum.)
I love my two dozen SureFires. And currently EDC an E2D LED Defender Ultra as my main light. But yeah.... Not even remotely as much respect for the ones running the company compared to the company's products. And that's putting it mildly.
