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Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
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Retired LEO here fwiw. I've used both flashlight and handgun/shotgun/rifle mounted lights for duty. Mounted lights are the way to go for things that might do you harm in the night. Force on force with strobes your eyes are attracted to the strobe if you are down range. However if things go wrong its likely bad guy is just going to shoot at the light whether using strobe or not in order to break contact or end you. That said I have a Olight PL-2 Valkyrie on my G17 and Ruger SR-556. 1200 lumens. A TLR-6 with laser on my G43. If you do this for a living Surefire is a no brainer and buy the best you can afford. If your not kicking doors its hard to go wrong with many of the lights out there today.
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Joined: Aug 2007
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Campfire Sage
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Campfire Sage
Joined: Aug 2007
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I have been using a TLR-1 and I find it to be UBER reliable. Matter of fact, I find anything Streamlight has made to be UBER reliable.
I think everything SureFire puts out is an overpriced POS. On a good day.
That being said, I'm not sold on the weapon's light idea in general. I certainly don't oppose them, but I don't find them necessary day to day. Kicking in doors and yada, yada may be a different story.
I'm in the fortunate position where I've been able to kill tons of schit (legally) in the dark and I can tell you flat out that if you put a guy with a weapon's light against a guy wearing a headlamp, the headlamp wearer will win 10 times out of 10. Having been fortunate enough myself to hunt at night, I had very different results than you did. Head lamps were for looking, gun mounted lights were for shooting. When I look through a scope, my headlamp isn't pointed where I'm looking. But maybe my head is crooked. I was using iron sights.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I thought after I posted, this is the handgun section, duh!
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