Biggest, brightest, baddest pistol mounted flashlight

jtischauser · Sep 17, 2012

Getting geared up for the night time zombie match.

I have a streamlight TRL-1 on a Glock and a couple of Crimson Trace Rail Masters I can mount on a pistol or rifle. I'm Just curious what's on your gun and why? What is the biggest baddest brightest pistol and rifle light you can buy?

Spiff · Sep 17, 2012

I'm gonna have an x300 on my rifle and an x300 on my M&P. I had a TLR-1 on my rifle for the ar15targets night match, and the constant on switch didnt have enough retention to stay activated, so I had to hold it down, which is when I found out the non-strobe model I had ordered had been programmed as a strobe model. I started a pretty sweet rave in the middle of the desert. I sent that one back to the factory and had it reprogrammed, then sold it and now have two x300s.

Wildcat · Sep 17, 2012

I'm putting a crimson trace light guard on my pistol or the zombie match with a sure fire millennium on my AR. I'm also going to bust out my streamlight head lamp.

KurtM · Sep 17, 2012

Well all I can say is don't go too bright or you will wash out your target in too bright a light. Around 135 lumens without definet center is best. This works great out to 150 or so with a red dot or out to 100 or so with irons without being too bright inside on a pistol or rifle.

Wildcat · Sep 17, 2012

Kurt, I never really thought about that. I was watching a video last night comparing the light guard to the tlr1 and that's why I chose the CT. The stream light shot a really bright 1' circle on the guys wall at maybe 15 feet. All you could see was light and not what it was pointed at. The CT was more of a large mellow circle.

benjamin-benjamin · Sep 17, 2012

KurtM said:
Well all I can say is don't go too bright or you will wash out your target in too bright a light. Around 135 lumens without definet center is best. This works great out to 150 or so with a red dot or out to 100 or so with irons without being too bright inside on a pistol or rifle.

hmm good to know, i would have never even thought about it, i have a tendency to think (when it comes to pretty much anything), bigger is always better...