#rifle light

[adamjagger]

Modlite weapon lights

This weeks post is going to be about modlite weapon lights and why I am switching all of my weapon lights to them. For a few years now my go to has always been the stream light line of rifle lights. They are always a good light for the price and a great intro to weapon lights. One of the nice things about them is they pretty much come with everything you need they come with a Picatinny mound a clicky tail cap or a tape switch tail cap and they will get you going at a low cost and no hassle.

But what do you do if you want more than what the streamlight an offer. That’s where the more high-end weapon light companies step in. Things like your surefire, cloud defense, and my current favorite Modlite. My first one that I picked up second hand off Tac Swap is a FDE 18350 OKW weapon light. I was very impressed with the performance of the light had itself and the small compact size of it is fantastic for smaller rifle builds or pistol caliber sub guns.

Some of the things that I really like about these modlites is just how customizable they are and the availability of different parts mounts switches caps etc. my 18350 is currently set up with the modlite clicks tail cap and it’s on a cheap arisaka knock off mount that I had in the parts drawer. I plan on switching the cabin mount and switch to something more like what my new modlite set up is which I will get into shortly. I really enjoy that unlike some other light companies these lights are interchangeable with a ton of different parts. They use the scout mount, They use surefire style tail cabs, I love that they use rechargeable batteries and if you buy the complete light kit it comes with one battery and the charger for them.

Now I will get into my newest weapon light set up that i picked up from brownells Thats on my odg geissele build. The light itself is a modlite 18650 okw light with a surefire ue tail cap. I do plan on changing the tail cap to the surefire ds very shortly. The mount is the arisaka I line scout mount which tucks up nice and tight to the mk16 rail at the 1:30 position. Again I do plan on switching the mount to the Unity light wing mount which will make sense with the switch that I am running. The switch is the Unity fusion hub/ modlite switch. I’ve really been really been digging this setup and I think I’ll like it a lot more when I switch caps and switch to the Unity mount.

Now let’s get onto Performance, starting off with I’ll be honest I don’t have thousands of rounds through these rifles with these lights on nor do I run around every night using these lights. But I have used both of these a handful of times at night and the performance of them is outstanding. I will attach a photo underneath this paragraph that shows the beam pattern of my 18650 light hitting a tree line about 80 to 90 yards away. You can see the center hotspot of these OKW light heads is very intense in the overall flood of the rest of the beam provides a very nice circular outline of light.

Overall I’ve really been enjoying these modlites and would highly suggest anyone looking for a good weapon like to head over to brownells and check them out. I’m excited to get more time using these lights because they are just so good. I might do a part two to this after a year or so of using it to give my opinion on them then.

Thanks for reading and happy shooting.

Adam Jagger gun blog #6 10/22/22

[inquisitor-apologist]

EDIT: Anon has informed me that Obi Wan’s weapon is a meteor hammer, which is pretty cool!

For the uninitiated:

Gunsaber

Inquisicoptor

Lightwhip

Umbrellasaber

Lightsaber knifesuit

Lightsaber tonfas

Swiss Army Knife Saber

Weird saber vents

Obi-Wan’s meteor hammer thingy

Jocasta Nu lightsabergun

[wholeshebangs]

it’s red dead steve but this time it’s a rich boy yeehaw

[officialrailscales]

Tano Thursday Setup

RSB/M | Terra Bronze

TerraCore 2-Slot G10 RailScales | Dragon Texture

TerraCore 1.5-Slot G10 Solo’s | Dragon Texture

TerraCore 3-Slot G10 RailScales | Dragon Texture

CSMR Button | MilSpec Style | Terra Bronze

- RS

[e350tb]

No one drips like the Royal Marines

[mothgoddesss]

YOU BETTER GET THIS STRAIGHT WISE UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! WE'RE NOT THREATENED BY YOUR LIES OR, YOUR GOOD-BYES!

SISTER SLEDGE - ALL AMERICAN GIRLS. 20 DECEMBER 2021.

One of those moments where a song inspires something kind of unrelated to the lyrics but is cool nonethless. I was still pretty new to drawing Elder-kun at the time, but I was really becoming inspired by certain Japanese Sky artists to improve upon how i drew them.

Items around him are Paracosm-related shenaniganry. Elder-kun. ♥

[bantarleton]

Artwork by Johnny Shumate from "The Swamp Fox" by David D. Higgins, showing a British light infantryman of the 63rd Regiment of Foot in 1780, armed with the British 1776 pattern rifle. The 63rd were seconded to Tarleton's British Legion during parts of the 1780 southern campaign.

[groundrunner100]

Sorry for forgetting any others, the answer count is only 10…

[rancid-filth]

[kavaeric]

The Refusal, from 2020.

[cool-as-steel]

I really do like it when you enter the book feeling Dread and Expecting The Horrors but instead you discover a book which is. Fairly Okay Actually.

[pilferingapples]

also like it’s just vibes but 

I don’t think Combeferre is under any misapprehensions of being The Normal One or like...the Practical or Reasonable One 

Courfeyrac is the Normal one. Enjolras is the pragmatic one. Combeferre is Chimeric 

however

I think he very much does have a “let’s be Practical About This” mode where he tries to get very stern and focused and tries to act like the Pragmatic Rational One , it’s his Let’s Focus Now worksona that he uses when We Really Must Stop Getting Distracted  

no one who has known him for more than fifteen minutes is ever fooled at all but he Tries 

[officialrailscales]

10.5” Noveske for FDE Friday

Karve | Terra Bronze

3-Slot G10 RailScales | TerraCore | MiniDot Texture

1.5-Slot G10 Solo’s | TerraCore | MiniDot Texture

QDX Sling Mount | Terra Bronze

CSMR Button | MilSpec Style | Terra Bronze

- RS

[spotlightstudios]

Hi. Personal opinion here but the way the Armada will literally just contort when hit then snap back to place a second later is horrid. Thanks.

[oatbugs]

she says my heart is yours, from the caspian shores.

[blue-and-gilt]

This sabre is another one of those Georgian mystery swords that doesn’t quite conform to the rules modern day collectors like to apply to everything. Nominally it looks like a 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry officers’ sabre with a pipe-back blade.

A pipe-back blade is a style of blade that came into fashion in the very last years of the 18th Century. It is not known if the design originated in France or Britain, but it is likely that it is a modification of the T-cross section popular on the Kijiji swords of the Ottoman Empire. By re-enforcing the blade with a bar of steel, or ‘pipe’ along the spine, it allows for a thinner, sharper blade.

While we see early examples of pipe-back swords, particularly among the officers of the light cavalry (although there are examples of heavy cavalry and infantry officer swords with them as well) it isn’t really until the 1810s that they came into any form of prominence. With the design becoming standard in later pattern swords.

Like many swords of the time, this one is un-marked, so it is impossible to determine its exact age. However small features like the lack of a yelman on the tip and the keyhole scabbard throat would roughly place it around 1810 – 1818.

Most of the pipe-back sabres can be confidently attributed to the officers’ branch of service by the type of hilt, length of blade or what scabbard they have. This sabre, however, has a steel stirrup hilt, which could be rifles or light cavalry, however its’ blade at 805 mm is long for a rifles officer while short for a cavalry officer. The leather scabbard is unsuited for mounted use, but regulation for a cavalry officers’ dress sword and typical for a rifles officer. Of course, there were other mounted services that were issued the 1796 Pattern light cavalry sabre, such as the mounted artillery and the soldiers of the baggage train. So it could have belonged to an officer of either service as well, and in a way such a sword would made sense for a mounted artillery officer, who would normally expect to do most of his actual fighting on foot from a set position and need to defend himself while his guns were deployed. In contrast to the light dragoons, who would fight mostly from horseback.

Ultimately, we are unlikely to ever know, but it is a quality sword showing the fine attention to detail the craftsmen of the era paid to their art to make a what is a fairly simple hilt stand out.

Overall Length: 925 mm

Blade Length: 805 mm

Grip Length: 110 mm

Inside Grip Length: 95 mm

Sword Weight: 630 grams

Total Weight: 1,010 grams

Point of Balance: 65 mm

Curve: 40 mm