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  • Dude1

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    Looking for a light to mount onto a .22 for night rodent hunting. What’s the brightest, tuffest light y’all have found?
    Thanks!!!
    Lynx Defense
     

    Sasquatch

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    Looking for a light to mount onto a .22 for night rodent hunting. What’s the brightest, tuffest light y’all have found?
    Thanks!!!
    How far are you shooting, and what kind of rodents? Streamlight has a few good options depending on what you're looking for.


    That's a green beam, for night hunting purposes.

    If you want white light you have more options:



     

    zackmars

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    Cloud defensive.

    I'm partial to the OWL, but the REIN is a tiny bit more flexible.

    Buy a cheap chinese weapon light, send ot to them and they'll give you $100 off, or wait for a moonshine sale
     

    zackmars

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    An important part of a weapon light is how "warm" or "cold" the light is, you want a nice warm light as it will cut through rain, and fog better, and gives better color attenuation (which can be used to help spot camouflaged things). Cloud has a nice warm beam (the OWL is very warm, my micro REIN is slightly less so)

    I had a surefire M600DF that was very warm, easily on par with the OWL.

    Surefire rifle lights, and Cloud can easily illuminate things past 100 yards
     

    Sasquatch

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    An important part of a weapon light is how "warm" or "cold" the light is, you want a nice warm light as it will cut through rain, and fog better, and gives better color attenuation (which can be used to help spot camouflaged things). Cloud has a nice warm beam (the OWL is very warm, my micro REIN is slightly less so)

    I had a surefire M600DF that was very warm, easily on par with the OWL.

    Surefire rifle lights, and Cloud can easily illuminate things past 100 yards

    You bring up a very good point - a lot of light's lumen output gets wasted in lights that are too cold - you just don't get good color definition and throw from them. The early LED flash lights really suffered from this problem. I hung onto my incan lights for quite a while after LEDs started becoming main stream because of this.
     
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