Maybe there’s already a thread on this? If so I may have missed it.
I know that @GJM is using the Streamlight TLR-8 on a gun or two, and I bought one for my PCC based on this. Problem with this option, like a lot of others, is that for a carbine solution it puts the laser an awful long way from the bore line.
Similar option would be the Surefire X400 available in green, red, and infrared laser versions.
SUREFIRE also has the XC2 in red and IR which has less light and a more optimally located laser but evidently doesn’t allow you to choose between light and laser, “only” offers 300 lumens, and seems to have a runtime of maybe 30 minutes.
Then there’s the XVL2 and XVL2 IRC that, Frankly I’m not exactly sure of the difference as both appear to offer both IR and white light, IR laser and green laser.
The SUREFIRE XH55 seems to be what we all want, with the laser output between the light and the bore, but it’s been vaporware for 2 years or more and is 1000 lumens (which imo may be too bright, as I’d probably trade lumens for ru time personally) and runs $700. It seems they may be offering it in both red and green if it ever becomes real.
Am I missing anything? Anything else on the horizon?
Personally, the XH55 option is so exciting because I’d like to mount it at 12 o’clock in a carbine handguard.
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Originally Posted by misanthropist
