Got a lot of operators watching you through a rifle scope at night on your milk and bread excursions, do ya?Certainly works well on a chicken house gun or maybe a red light for coyotes. Otherwise, they make a great target in a defensive situation. You can even see them in a standard scope in the dead of night. Helps the assailant see where you are at all times.
I know a Vietnam vet who carried an M60. Tracers draw fire in the same manner. "Get the guy with the big gun".That's why you use a hand held. Light discipline and away from the body carry since light draws eyes and what draws eyes draws fire, just like people get hit in the hands/gun more often than you'd expect. No way I'm walking around with a light strapped to my forehead if I think I may need to shoot someone or be shot.
So in this thread about simple WML we have had mention of “assailants” at distance with presumably a rifle to an M60 and tracers.I know a Vietnam vet who carried an M60. Tracers draw fire in the same manner. "Get the guy with the big gun".
The point being people will aim for the light. That is the relevance to the topic.So in this thread about simple WML we have had mention of “assailants” at distance with presumably a rifle to an M60 and tracers.
Think we can say some have lost the relevance of the topic!
At typical self defense distances, you get hit with 1000 lumens in your face and you ain't "aiming" at ****.The point being people will aim for the light. That is the relevance to the topic.
Depends on where the other attacker is. Is he on the grassy knoll overlooking the Kroger parking lot?And in the case of more than one attacker which on the street is highly likely I presume?
I was referring to getting hit with a light from a dark room. If you’re off to the side sure but not so much if you are hit Straight on with the high powered lumens today you really can’t tolerate looking at it when lit up when standing in total darkness. Unlike the Maglights of the early 1990’s with what maybe 50 lumens!The point being people will aim for the light. That is the relevance to the topic.
It amazes me the amount of instructions that have something to say when you mention you don’t run a WML AND you point out things mentioned in this article and or real experience from chasing bad guys yet they preach their theory’sIssues with Weapon Mounted Lights
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I spent all of last week attending Massad Ayoob and Marty Hayes' Deadly Force Instructor class as a student. We spent some time discussing the use of weapon mounted lightswww.activeresponsetraining.net