I love the KAC sling mount but the lack of rotation limited movement is bugging the crap out of me. I bought a DD one to replace my current KAC swivel and mount, maybe it won't look as bad.

I am sure it is the Rocky S2V Boots and the OR Overlord Gloves.
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Yep, both very nice.

I think the technology has passed up the little Insight pistol lights.  Hell, the Surefire X300 Ultra puts out something like 500 lumens.

200 Lumens from a WMX200 is more than sufficient. It's not like they need the biggest brightest light for CQB.

Agreed. For indoors, the 125-lumen M3X/M6X LEDs are quite good; hell, I like them outdoors up to about 30 yards. The WMX200 is even better. The Insight lights have more spill than the SureFire in my experience. If I need more throw, I have my M600C for that. There is indeed such a thing as too much light in some situations.

500 lumen lights don't really have a brighter hot spot.  Spill however, is a vastly improved over 120, 200, etc. lumen models.  Given that clearance is often performed at low or high ready, more spill is a great advantage since I can see something without pointing my weapon directly at it.  Also enhances peripheral awareness.  Work under the assumption that every shadow contains a bad guy, therefore lighting an entire room with better spill from a WL is never a bad thing.  

It's not going to burn through walls, blind you, or light furniture on fire.

So because you don't need that much light, no one else does. Got it.

Common sense. So fucking rare it should be a super power.

What model peltors

I may be wrong, but the soldier nearest to the camera in the third picture - A2X on the muzzle? Looks too long to be a standard A2. . .

And Magpul stocks

Most likely a standard A2 flash hider, but just a weird camera angle is all.

 

Travis Haley has a good video on this why to much light is not always good and that a good spill is important when in cqb ,and also how to much light can be a distraction to your our your team

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Some of his lowlight stuff is interesting and has been disagreed with by many.  Like flashbulbing to the point of him looking like a moving disco ball.

But I agree with the spill part.

oh I was getting excited thinking an A2X COULD be correct. . .

Just a quick question for people with different types of lights: I have a 952V on the Block II but nothing on the PR yet (except when I stick the 952V on it for pics), I am thinking about permanently relocating the 952V to the PR and getting something new for the Block II.  Should I go the M3X route, or maybe wait for the new IR Surefire 300 or 600 series? Or just cheap guy it and get a second 952V?

I originally had an M300 on the Block II and I loved how small and low-profile it was, but I wanted IR capabilities.

Also, I think the PR might get a laundry bag and rattle can treatment in the next few days.  I've been hesitant because its still unfired, but I need to change that and rough it up

Pic of course:


IMG_0809 by Will816, on Flickr

When I paint it I'll get some new, better quality ones up.  I'm still refining my technique with the 7D and I've much improved since that pic was taken.

Why not get the WMX200? It's way superior IMO to the M3X series, and probably better than the Surefire's.

$500...

I'd get the M720V if I was going to spend that much.

Mine was $375 and the standard model is $325. Try contacting Insight maybe?

I'll just stick with my Scout.

Amen

Me too. I'm not HSLD enough

The honeymoon price is over. Now the MK2 retrofit kit costs $44 + s/h  

Says the guy with the FDE 45c

looks like a KAC, zoom in and you can see the recessed area at 6 o'clock

Oh, that old thing?

It's a KAC M4QD Comp.  You can see the indexing notch - the M4QD is slightly longer overall, though the suppressor portion is the same size as the A2 comp to accommodate a standard BFA, among other things.  

The thing that you must remember about the SU-233/PVS Gun Light (M3X) is that the use of the M3X by "those in the know" dates back to around the 2004-ish timeframe, IIRC - but it is relatively old.

At the time, the "top of the line" from Surefire was the M962C for long guns and the W114DG for pistols.  Neither the Scout, nor the X300 were available.  Compared to those two, the M3X was sufficiently bright, small, low profile, and light, and more universally mountable.

Furthermore, super bright white lights are simply not as important when you're conducting nighttime CQC using NV and IR lasers.  The use of the VBL in a military context differs greatly between civilian HD and even most LEO applications.  Keeping up with the ever-increasing "Lumens Race" is not really a high priority along the continuum of SOPMOD items.      

After the release of the Scout and the X200/300 series, the M3X persisted because it was incandescent, allowing it to be used with an IR filter, something that has only recently become possible with LEDs like the Vampire-series Surefires.  

At the end of the day, sure, the M3X is, in almost all senses of the word, "old tech."  But if it works... it works.  That lights that are twice as bright are available doesn't suddenly make the M3X dimmer, and it's still a pretty light unit for what you get in terms of functionality with a polymer body and better integrated backplate than anything available for the X300.

The question is "is the light bright enough to be useful to you?"  This will depend heavily on what you use it for.

The sturm und drang of the Lumen Wars tends to obfuscate the fact that much of the heaviest fighting in the Global War on Terror was largely conducted with rifles equipped with Surefire Millennium series incandescent lights.  Which is not a statement against progress, but many of the "brighter, brighter, brighter!" types seem to be pushing this idea that if your WL doesn't turn night to day, you've got one foot in the grave already.  Diminishing returns and all that.  

FWIW, having not used either, but based on the features - I am substantially underwhelmed by the M720V for the price.  The WMX-200 is pricey, the M720V is asinine.  I'm unimpressed by the switching options, and would rather have the WMX-200 or a simple M620V or M600 with V-series bezel than the RAID.  

ETA:  Nothing to offer by way of "ownage," I'm afraid.  

...but I'm drawing nearer and nearer to returning CONUS, and might be able to actually contribute some updated photos!  

~Augee

Wow, good eye, I think your right. Oh well. . .

Nightforce 2.5-10x24mm or su237?

NF all the way!!!! Why not the 32mm? other than the obvious, " it's more compact". I've been looking for a used one and everyone is asking a serious premium due to the availability. unless you can get one as a mil/LE.

More clone appropriate. I've actually had one already but sold it buy buy an SU230.

I too would go with the NF.

Once my stamp arrives for my MK18, I'm gonna transfer the T1 currently on my black M4A1 block II to it, and pick up an NF 2.5-10x for the black block II.

After months on backorder, my tan M300B is finally shipping this Friday.

Love my Surefire M600C.  My Mk18s and the eventual M4A1 SOPMOD will sport Scouts and/or X300 Ultras.  

Footage from my Contour HD of me shooting my Block II at the monthly match we shoot at work.

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Nice!! That's awesome, especially the no light part.

Cool, and the same song from the cab chase scene in the Fifth Element.



 

Very nice!

When will the mk12 be done?

I decided to scrap the MK12 project, at least for a while - reason being that I don't really have access to any ranges that go beyond 200/300 yards. I figure the two 5.56 guns I have are more than capable at those ranges and a precision AR would be overkill.

I talked with a tech guy at DD about my new M4A1 rail and asked him were all the US Military M4A1 uppers are built with M4 SOCOM Barrels and he replied that some are built with the Reg. M4 barrels. I plan on using what I have on hand which is a New  COLT 14.5 M4 barrel w/ my new in box DD M4A1 rail.

Screw that! I am NOT doing another Clone!!!!!!!

 

I know...  

 

What pressure switch is that on the MK18 upper?

Now that I've finally got a light on the way, I'm in the market for a solid pressure switch.

Its an Insight Dual Switch, P/N RMT-400-A8, here's one for sale, although at a high price,

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Insight-RMT-400-A8-M3X-SU-233-Rail-DevGru-MARSOC-Block-II-/140981097338?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20d320d37a

Will

It is a dual switch for an insight/lid laser and insight light. $75-$100 on ebay Is easiest to find new

Here is a more realistic price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RMT-400-A8-Insight-Technologies-Dual-Pressure-Switch-RMT-400-A8-/111059893784?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19dbaf7e18

Some may end around $65-75at auctions's end, but I was impatient and just got a new one when it popped up for $80 shipped with Buy It Now.

How is the switch from an Aimpoint (Mod 0) to an EOTech (Mod 1) an improvement?  

Ok. I'll be running a SureFire M300B, so sounds like this switch won't work for me.

Then you need a surefire sR-D-IT SWITCH. Same principle as the insight one but for surefire light and insight laser...

Yeah I got one too, but am seriously debating going back the separate tape switches for each...

Improved field of view for one..and batteries are common enough, it not like they die every day.