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price and reliability talk around rifle-light brands
replacing problem lights after night shooting
a rifle setup with surefire scout light and ir

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Double Tap 479 – Kitty Cats (2026-09-15) · We Like Shooting 682 – Bonecast (2026-09-29)

price and reliability talk around rifle-light brands

“At least he's on screen now. Anyway, I don't know. Who's Jeff Portnoy? is that jack black i don't know anyway i heard the fucking dog growling through my headphones so he's growling loud and i look over and he's just staring at the tv growling at all the fat people so anyway raise the dog right and and they'll do the right things i'm pretty proud of him right now dog hates you i want to say fuck you i'm sorry it was right there no you had to um i want to say cloud defensive so bad but i do know some people that have had issues with their reins and i know that there's been it feels like there's always a new drama there so i just like don't feel comfortable saying that i have been very happy with mine but i'll tell you the ones that i genuinely have like never really heard of a problem with or had a problem with is the Streamlight, like the Protac rifle light.”

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At least he's on screen now. Anyway, I don't know. Who's Jeff Portnoy? is that jack black i don't know anyway i heard the fucking dog growling through my headphones so he's growling loud and i look over and he's just staring at the tv growling at all the fat people so anyway raise the dog right and and they'll do the right things i'm pretty proud of him right now dog hates you i want to say fuck you i'm sorry it was right there no you had to um i want to say cloud defensive so bad but i do know some people that have had issues with their reins and i know that there's been it feels like there's always a new drama there so i just like don't feel comfortable saying that i have been very happy with mine but i'll tell you the ones that i genuinely have like never really heard of a problem with or had a problem with is the Streamlight, like the Protac rifle light.
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“I have a couple of the clouds, and I really like them. But I agree. uh they've had some some issues and they're also kind of expensive they're too expensive to be having issues yeah um i have heard of issues with the streamlights but i have not experienced them yet um and i have a handful of them and they're reasonably priced i think that they're a really good balance of uh price to performance yeah um so yeah if you are more budget-minded then um i think streamlight's the way to go if you are looking to spend some money then take your pick from like surefire or mod light or uh yeah malkov yeah uh i think they mostly do parts but you can like kind of piece together a light oh nice from them yeah that's cool um jeremy any thoughts on this one i think you guys have covered it extensively all right there you have it hopefully that answers your question don't get that uh what's the the wml from uh enforce yeah i hate i hate the button on that one me fucking too and i i don't know if they fixed it but they used to have really bad parasitic drain uh the metal ones are better i actually just clicked one that's been sitting in a safe for like a year and it still worked so that was a good sign that's cool but the buttons are pretty bad yeah it's really easy to bounce off the buttons under recoil even even on a low recoil gun which is the craziest thing and it's like the pistol lights and the rifle lights are bad in the opposite direction so like the pistol light operates how a rifle light should operate and the rifle light operates how a pistol light should operate yeah i don't know they're just kind of kind of backwards uh jeremy next question anonymous coward from Hawaii good evening dads Nick's not a dad well I guess this isn't for Nick maybe he's just calling us his his daddy no I've been called I've been called daddy before no he said dads not daddy no that's a that's a different I was gonna ask if I go to Savage's house for dinner but mom angel said no because he's a pdf so here's my other question lately if Cougars have been bothering me while I'm working. What do you think the best pistol and caliber is to use on them?”

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I have a couple of the clouds, and I really like them. But I agree. uh they've had some some issues and they're also kind of expensive they're too expensive to be having issues yeah um i have heard of issues with the streamlights but i have not experienced them yet um and i have a handful of them and they're reasonably priced i think that they're a really good balance of uh price to performance yeah um so yeah if you are more budget-minded then um i think streamlight's the way to go if you are looking to spend some money then take your pick from like surefire or mod light or uh yeah malkov yeah uh i think they mostly do parts but you can like kind of piece together a light oh nice from them yeah that's cool um jeremy any thoughts on this one i think you guys have covered it extensively all right there you have it hopefully that answers your question don't get that uh what's the the wml from uh enforce yeah i hate i hate the button on that one me fucking too and i i don't know if they fixed it but they used to have really bad parasitic drain uh the metal ones are better i actually just clicked one that's been sitting in a safe for like a year and it still worked so that was a good sign that's cool but the buttons are pretty bad yeah it's really easy to bounce off the buttons under recoil even even on a low recoil gun which is the craziest thing and it's like the pistol lights and the rifle lights are bad in the opposite direction so like the pistol light operates how a rifle light should operate and the rifle light operates how a pistol light should operate yeah i don't know they're just kind of kind of backwards uh jeremy next question anonymous coward from Hawaii good evening dads Nick's not a dad well I guess this isn't for Nick maybe he's just calling us his his daddy no I've been called I've been called daddy before no he said dads not daddy no that's a that's a different I was gonna ask if I go to Savage's house for dinner but mom angel said no because he's a pdf so here's my other question lately if Cougars have been bothering me while I'm working. What do you think the best pistol and caliber is to use on them?
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replacing problem lights after night shooting

“So I'm really excited to like start training some more and doing some stuff. Um, but overall class was awesome. I know that uh country boy guns and mike we've all talked since and we all got a lot out of it so really valuable the last time that i took a nightfire class nick you were there i think uh yeah i think so or if not that specific class uh we have taken one together before and it's like you start to fall apart i you know same same as usual start adding a bunch of tasks and you start to fall apart but the the previous time when nick and i took the course together at the end of the class i was so fucking frustrated because nothing that i had worked the way that i wanted it to so at that time i was like okay fuck this i am going to replace all of the equipment that failed me which was basically every light every red dot the enforce yeah all of the enforce is now in a bin i was literally just organizing that bin to get today and there's like seven enforced lights in there that i just took off of guns and don't use anymore so i am very happy to say that that solved almost all of my problems and i was pretty stoked about it overall now not all of my problems but most of my problems um i replaced every single light uh, all the red dots that I had did very well.”

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So I'm really excited to like start training some more and doing some stuff. Um, but overall class was awesome. I know that uh country boy guns and mike we've all talked since and we all got a lot out of it so really valuable the last time that i took a nightfire class nick you were there i think uh yeah i think so or if not that specific class uh we have taken one together before and it's like you start to fall apart i you know same same as usual start adding a bunch of tasks and you start to fall apart but the the previous time when nick and i took the course together at the end of the class i was so fucking frustrated because nothing that i had worked the way that i wanted it to so at that time i was like okay fuck this i am going to replace all of the equipment that failed me which was basically every light every red dot the enforce yeah all of the enforce is now in a bin i was literally just organizing that bin to get today and there's like seven enforced lights in there that i just took off of guns and don't use anymore so i am very happy to say that that solved almost all of my problems and i was pretty stoked about it overall now not all of my problems but most of my problems um i replaced every single light uh, all the red dots that I had did very well.
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a rifle setup with surefire scout light and ir

“Uh, Nick, please narrate for a moment. Okay. He is grabbing a rifle off the wall. he's bringing it around okay oh look at that he's back yeah here i am okay so i have two rifle slash carbines set up for night vision and just to only take one ammo i basically took my mp5 and i wanted to talk about the setup that i have on this as well so this is my ptr mp5 i have the midwest industries suppressor hand guard on it which is just absolutely the best thing that i've ever put on this on this gun i absolutely love it it gives me all the rail space that i need for all the different things that i have and i'm just very happy with it overall so i have the surefire scout light this is a white light and ir I replaced the Enforce lights that I had previously with this and this one the white light did perfect I could see the targets I could identify the targets and it just it did great it was bright enough it did exactly what I needed in both white light and IR and I'm very happy with it on the other side I have the tape switch that basically activates the light and then a laser Now on the top of this, I have a D-ball L2, which is IR and visible laser.”

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Uh, Nick, please narrate for a moment. Okay. He is grabbing a rifle off the wall. he's bringing it around okay oh look at that he's back yeah here i am okay so i have two rifle slash carbines set up for night vision and just to only take one ammo i basically took my mp5 and i wanted to talk about the setup that i have on this as well so this is my ptr mp5 i have the midwest industries suppressor hand guard on it which is just absolutely the best thing that i've ever put on this on this gun i absolutely love it it gives me all the rail space that i need for all the different things that i have and i'm just very happy with it overall so i have the surefire scout light this is a white light and ir I replaced the Enforce lights that I had previously with this and this one the white light did perfect I could see the targets I could identify the targets and it just it did great it was bright enough it did exactly what I needed in both white light and IR and I'm very happy with it on the other side I have the tape switch that basically activates the light and then a laser Now on the top of this, I have a D-ball L2, which is IR and visible laser.
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