Category: Equipment Reviews

At the time of this writing, Snow Geese must be actively managed. Bag limits have been increased to 50 per person per day and electronic calls are allowed to encourage hunters to make a larger impact and help control the species to a more healthy population. Snow Goose hunting involves lots of decoys, good quality camouflage…

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This headlamp was interesting. A 2X headlamp with individually zoomable lenses, and a selector switch on top so you could choose left, right, both as well as high, medium and strobe settings. The beam pattern can be individually adjusted by side focus levers. This enables the user to run one as a flood pattern while…

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Recently, I’ve had a hard time finding headlamps around my house. My kids have been playing with some, others were left in drawers or at my friends house from hunting, so I decided to buy a few headlamps from eBay. The funny thing is, there’s a lot of repeats from various no-name manufacturers. The cost…

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8000 Lumens out of an LED that maxes out at 1000? While it’s important to dream, these kinds of listings are why straight-from-China products have such a bad reputation. This headlamp is essentially the same as the (also unrealistically marketed) 5000 Lumen headlamp, except it uses a zoomable housing. I found all the zoomable housings…

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1200 Lumens from a headlamp that uses AAA batteries in series? Good luck with that. The product page itself claims a more reasonable 300 lumens. With one main white LED in the centre with 2 flanking red LED’s, this headlamp looks to be a (poor) knockoff of the Jetbeam HP35. And where the Jetbeam is…

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The Jetbeam HP35 is a lot more expensive than the other Chinese headlamps tested with a price around $20 USD. It claims to use a CREE XP-G3 for a main and is rated for a reasonable 335 Lumens. This headlamp also comes with 2 red LED’s on the sides of the main white LED. RED…

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At $2.88 USD with free shipping, this was handily the cheapest headlamp tested. The main difference in this COB (Chips On Board) headlamp is that it uses an array of LED’s instead of 1 main one. This results in less glare, more widespread light, and means you can use smaller LED’s. The result is a…

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So, this might be a Skywolfeye, or a BesSky, or not branded at all, who really knows. Even with all the oddly designed Chinese headlamps I reviewed, this was the weirdest and the worst. The plastic used to retain the headband to the headlamp bent and broke easily, the lamp swivel lock was odd and…

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It’s really not fair to lump in a $60 headlamp with a bunch of $7 ones, but I thought it’d be interesting to review a headlamp that uses a very different design. It also comes with a $30 18650 battery, so it’s practically a $30 headlamp. The NiteCore HC60 uses a single 18650 battery horizontally…

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I don’t do scuba diving, but I thought it’d be fun to get a completely waterproof diving headlamp. At $5.60, the Probe Shiny Scuba Headlamp wasn’t going to break the bank. This headlamp was quite different from the other Chinese headlamps in a few interesting ways: Uses a silicone headband instead of fabric. Silicone attachment…

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