shoot our night matches with an old 3-d mag light, money's tight right now, and the Harries' Technique. Practice, you'd be suprised how well you can shoot. Alos, try no light. Yeah, no light. Allow your eyes to adjust to the dark. There's a lot of ambient light in most places.
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I agree with you in that holding a 3 D Maglite is not challenge when using the Harries' techniqhe.
But the Maglite 3 "D" output only 39 lumens of light and very focused as well.
In many "clearing a room" operations is not ambient light at all and if you find a big room it is recommended that you put as much light as you can to avoid lossing time panning the light and exposing yourself as a target.
What you need is a light that will
really blind the oponent lurking in the dark.
I consider the bare minimum a 200 lumens light such as the Surefire C-3 with the HOLA lamp.
But prefer a M-4 or even the M-6 with the 500 lumens lamp.
As not everybody can afford to have a MEGALIGHT like that and pay MEGABUCKS in batteries ($10.00 for 20 minutes run)
I will recommend that they take a look at my modification of the Maglite to output
951 lumens as my flashlight is rechargeable those lumens are free.
see this link,
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169074
My rechargeable batteries can be recharge 1000 times, for 500 hours of free light before you will need another $24.00 rechargeable pack,
Before a Surefire M-6 can be run for 500 hours you'll have spend over $5,000.00 in batteries!!!
This three pictures will show you some differences in light output.
Beamshot with a regular Maglite 3 D (39 lumens)
Beamshot with a Surefire M-6 (500 lumens)
Beamshot with a Maglite modified for 951 lumens (black bear's MAG 951)
If some people are so technical is because
today it can make the difference between life and death, if it will no matter many LEO's will be carrying K frame 38 specials instead of the last tupperware wonder nine.
Bullets are high tech now compared with the regular lead round nose slug of 20 years ago, comunications are the province of sophisticated two way radios instead of a wistle, and crime science have change a lot since Quince, according to what I am seeing in CSI every Sunday night!!
Why not apply some high tech to lights too!!!
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