Switchology 101: The Right Light for Your Firearm

By Jeremy Stafford

Serious students understand that a gunfight isn’t going to happen on flat, even ground with great lighting and a stationary bad guy. Real fights usually happen in the dark or in diminished light, they’re usually close, they’re usually fast, and the bad guy is usually moving. Serious students train for the worst-case scenario, not the best.

But what does that mean? Does it mean that you can attach a SureFire X300 Ultra to your blaster and call it good? No, it means that at some point, hopefully soon, you learn how to use that light. In a fight. In the dark. The first step, of course, is attaching a light. There is no true substitute for an attached light. Handheld techniques can bridge the gap between searching and shooting, but if you’re going into a fight, a firearm-mounted light is king. Actually, night vision and infrared (IR) lasers are better, but that level of equipment and training is outside the realm of possibility for most folks, so that leaves us with white light techniques.

Handgun light switches cover the spectrum from toggle …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo