Headlamp Vs Gun mounted light for night shoots.

[TheStagePlan]

Here is a little test I did this weekend wanted to know others opinions either here or on the YouTube page. 

 

What light are are you all running ?  

 

 

[AverageJoeShooting]

i would do a gun mounted light.

 

1 it weights the barrel down so a little less rise

2 head mounted lights can fall off or get jarred and point the wrong direction

 

[bfilbey]

I run the biggest, brightest lights I have on my long guns. I use a 1000 lumen light on my pistol.

[troupe]

Pistol mounted is the way to go. As you found out the laser helps a lot as well.  

[Bw3375]

I run surefire lights on both my rifles and pistols. If they're good enough to go through the rigors of military use, then I trust them on my weapons. 

 

My backup light I carry is a stream light, only because I like the strobe feature it has

[orangeman711]

I run Surefire's on my rifle and shotgun and stream light mounted on the side of my 90 degree C-More on my pistol.

[Nick_shoots_fast]

Looks really cool and similar to the match I just went to. It was my first one and I had a light mounted to my rifle. They also had big generators with light similar to what the road crews use so you could still see a little bit. I loved my weapon mounted might to illuminate steel that was to far to see with the overhead lights so I would choose that instead. BUT the fault lines were also illuminated by the generator lights. Maybe if you couldn’t see the fault lines maybe? But then it might be a safety issue. 

[Nolan]

We have fairly frequent night matches at the range in the original post.  I use both a headlight and a weapon mounted light.  I set the headlight on the dim white light setting and tilt it down as far as it will go and use it for seeing where I'm going and any manipulation I have to do with the gun.

 

Nolan