Lights on guns. WHY????

[Brad69]

Lots of jaw jacking in this thread!

When ACT holds the next low light class. Come on out and show off your skills.

I bet 50% of posters have never shot in low light!
We eat BBQ before the class!

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Great read, thanks @BehindBlueI's

I always carry a handheld "plan A" and always have a WML "plan B" on all of my defense guns.

Even "professionally" I use a handheld extensively. WML have their place, but you can't easily uncouple them and there are a lot of times I want to light something up I don't want to point a gun at. You can use splash in some, but not all situations. If I'm on a long gun, then I'm limited to the WML but I'm not alone so that gives me more options.

I cleared a lot of low light and/or completely dark places before WML were an option. Sometimes I even found bad guys. Sometimes I whacked a bad guy with my light because they needed a whacking but not a shooting. Sometimes you need to holster up because you need to deal with someone who doesn't need shot. If you're limited to a WML, now you're in the dark. I can deal with no WML pretty easily, and have many times (just like everyone else did until handgun mounted lights started becoming a thing about 20 years ago or so). I can't deal with no handheld in the same way.

 

[Gabriel]

I can deal with no WML pretty easily, and have many times (just like everyone else did until handgun mounted lights started becoming a thing about 20 years ago or so). I can't deal with no handheld in the same way.

WMLs have been around longer than you think.

 

[Cameramonkey]

WMLs have been around longer than you think.

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My money is that’s from Churchmouse’s scrapbook. Lol

 

[OakRiver]

WMLs have been around longer than you think.

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Even further back in history than that

 

[Ggreen]

Lots of jaw jacking in this thread!

When ACT holds the next low light class. Come on out and show off your skills.

I bet 50% of posters have never shot in low light!
We eat BBQ before the class!

Can I just bring my thermal?

 

[Flingarrows]

Even further back in history than that

Tracer rounds...


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[jsx1043]

OMG, seriously... two things: 1.) If you don’t like something, read about it to learn more. 2.) Post up once you have caught up.

Are we not F-ing gunfighters? Are you a “2A enthusiast” or a G-D gunfighter? Get with the F-ing times. How in God’s green earth is there seven pages to this thread? Put a stupid light on your gun or don’t, it’s up to you. Be up-to-speed or be back in the last century, your choice. Whichever one you pick, it doesn’t matter, just don’t belittle the people who make the opposite choice.

I don’t care which one you pick but you better be G-D ready to skin that smoke wagon. People around a here acting like trivial sh!t matters...

 

[1775usmarine]

America that's why.

 

[Tactically Fat]

People around a here acting like trivial sh!t matters...

you must be new here.

 

[shibumiseeker]

I hear a noise out in the chicken yard at night, I want the center of the spotlight to be where the bullet is going with the RDS on target. I've been protecting my livestock for 30 years now and this is what has worked well for me for the last 20 after a lot of trial and error.

Never worried about the house for reasons I will not post about here, but I've trained with the WML on my bedstand AND I have a "burn out the retinas" hand held light always on charge right next to it.

 

[Biggredchev]

Thoughts on assault flashlights? Or is it a light integrated weapon? dont mind the inlaws foundation, it has some issues lol.

 

[Gabriel]

Thoughts on assault flashlights? Or is it a light integrated weapon? View attachment 130851 dont mind the inlaws foundation, it has some issues lol.

That's a suppressor tube.

 

[jsx1043]

That's a suppressor tube.

Heck, that’s a mortar tube

 

[Methane Herder]

Light on your rifle illuminates Mosin bayonet as the Russian Red Army Choir sings 'Sweet Home Alabama'. 7.62R punches through the air as you charge the enemy wearing a ushanka

Leonid Skynavich ?
Things that I never thought I would see. Ever! Really .....ever!
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