went from none to
a Olight Odin mounted on my Tavor
A Odin mounted on the wife 20ga bullpup
a PL mini on the wife CZ Shadow
a PL mini on my CZ P10
A Baldr mini heading towards the Canik Elite or the M17
And finally the Warrior Turbo onto my shotgun once the mount shows up.
and I trained in the late 70s and early eighties on the tactical use of white light in night operation (in conjunction with the Bundeswehr) - when you see a Sqn of Leopards light up a hilltop 8km away, fire 3 volleys of 105 HETK and scoot in less than 30 secomds, I can tell you that when the lights went out the last rounds were just landing. The 1 million Candle Power light (when you open the IR Filter) was as an effect weapon as anything and at short range (in tank speak less than 1000m) it was enough to blind you and when switched off you were even less combat effective. It was one of the reasons the Warsaw Pact would fire smoke at night (which unless you have experienced it is useless unless it is illuminated)…
if I was a US Serviceman I would want my M9 back as it stands now (simply if you field strip it wrong you can not insert the mag), and my first experience with a 320/M17 I locked it just checking the trigger reset.
The elite combat shoots better - to a point of being able to win “lunch” by shooting out the blue of a circle. But than again I was using a red dot.
I will revisit this comment again after I put a red dot on the m17, it could just be a learning curve thing and lack of confidence in the M17.
You should have seen the shit show when we were forced to give up the 1911s for the M9 piece of shit.
We took them out when we first got them. I told the Old Man Im not using one. I will bring my own 1911 with me. (Armorer has its privilege).
He said “Me too”
Still have only one, a 45, will never own nothing else.
Our op4 may be armored. The 9 becomes mute then.
Up until 1992, there were zero white lights for any small arm.
Even crew serve had starlight scopes, not white lights.
Good video/thread captain👍
I prefer to have the option if needed!
I run a weapons light on everything except for bolt action rifles and single action revolvers.
Check out Fenix flashlights good stuff👍