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Weapons lights recommendations
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I have a pelican LED its sweet and not to bad on price.
I think its a m3 or m6 cant remember but had an older pelican and traded it in on the one i needed.
(thats pelicans policy by the way)
I will buy there products hands down as there customer service is top notch!!!!
I think its a m3 or m6 cant remember but had an older pelican and traded it in on the one i needed.
(thats pelicans policy by the way)
I will buy there products hands down as there customer service is top notch!!!!
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Newcastle....FWIW I and several staff at OFA have for the last two years conducted extensive testing on all the current suite of weapon mounted lights from IMI, Streamlight and Surefire. PLUS our staff gets a front row seat at observing students, their lights, and their performance using various lights during night fire courses and when students enter the dark room at the Adjudicator during daylight training and need a light to survive the simulated real world self-defense situation.
We've tried them side-by-side inside, outside, clear night, raining night, foggy night and even downstream from a campfire with the smoke clouding the evening. We've tried incans and LEDs. For a good weight to light ratio you cannot go wrong with the TL lights. It is lightweight relative to the amount of light output. Plus more importantly the beam penetrated well through a variety of environmental conditions and is consistent giving a broad swath of usable light. The switch is positive and gives you full on or intermittent. The lock down on the clamp is a real plus cuz I've seen similar lights fly off in the middle of training. It can be spun up and down very easy with a thumb.
The only downside to the light is there is no lock out on the switch so there is a chance the light may inadvertently come on when in storage mode (don't ask me how I know!). I carry my carbine either in a Pelican case or a Blackhawk Soft Shell carrier and I've gone through many sets of batteries because the switch gets turned on inadvertently. I've tried to come up with a sleeve to keep it from coming on but haven't been successful and my calls to Streamlight have fell on deaf ears. So regrettably one must remove the batteries if it is going to be stored in a case or transported in an enclosed case/bag or laying on a seat where.
The nice aspect about this light is it will not break the bank and it will give you a light that can be interchanged between handgun and carbine. It has the best pattern and density of its competitors - Surefire and IMI. I personally tried all three in an unbiased test for over a month and this is my go too light.
Also in our testing under multiple atmospheric conditions the Incan consistently out performs LED lamps but that is quickly changing. Incan's seem to penetrate fog, smoke and humidity better than LED's. The trade-off is shorter battery life. So I generally carry a Surefire LED light on my body for standard lightening chores and for searching and only use the weapon mounted light for engagements. I do not use it to search as I do not want to point a deadly weapon at a potential non-thread (i.e. friend, family or responding LEO). I've found multi-tasking goes to pot in stressful situations and most of us don't do it well even when not under stress. When you mount a light to a weapon some people try to do triple duty...is it a flashlight, a rifle or a rifle with a light? Too many decisions. So hand held for general purpose and for searching and weapon light for when I'm engaged.
We've tried them side-by-side inside, outside, clear night, raining night, foggy night and even downstream from a campfire with the smoke clouding the evening. We've tried incans and LEDs. For a good weight to light ratio you cannot go wrong with the TL lights. It is lightweight relative to the amount of light output. Plus more importantly the beam penetrated well through a variety of environmental conditions and is consistent giving a broad swath of usable light. The switch is positive and gives you full on or intermittent. The lock down on the clamp is a real plus cuz I've seen similar lights fly off in the middle of training. It can be spun up and down very easy with a thumb.
The only downside to the light is there is no lock out on the switch so there is a chance the light may inadvertently come on when in storage mode (don't ask me how I know!). I carry my carbine either in a Pelican case or a Blackhawk Soft Shell carrier and I've gone through many sets of batteries because the switch gets turned on inadvertently. I've tried to come up with a sleeve to keep it from coming on but haven't been successful and my calls to Streamlight have fell on deaf ears. So regrettably one must remove the batteries if it is going to be stored in a case or transported in an enclosed case/bag or laying on a seat where.
The nice aspect about this light is it will not break the bank and it will give you a light that can be interchanged between handgun and carbine. It has the best pattern and density of its competitors - Surefire and IMI. I personally tried all three in an unbiased test for over a month and this is my go too light.
Also in our testing under multiple atmospheric conditions the Incan consistently out performs LED lamps but that is quickly changing. Incan's seem to penetrate fog, smoke and humidity better than LED's. The trade-off is shorter battery life. So I generally carry a Surefire LED light on my body for standard lightening chores and for searching and only use the weapon mounted light for engagements. I do not use it to search as I do not want to point a deadly weapon at a potential non-thread (i.e. friend, family or responding LEO). I've found multi-tasking goes to pot in stressful situations and most of us don't do it well even when not under stress. When you mount a light to a weapon some people try to do triple duty...is it a flashlight, a rifle or a rifle with a light? Too many decisions. So hand held for general purpose and for searching and weapon light for when I'm engaged.
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