First problem is I can’t find the body diameter of my two potential weapons lights. Going to run a Surefire 6PX Tactical or a P2X Tactical. I believe the body diameter is the same for both but I don’t know what it is and I need to know that before I can buy a mount with the correct ring size.
For some reason SF doesn’t give the body diameter on their website.
As for the mount itself, I just need a simple ring or dual ring setup that mounts directly to a picatinny rail. I don’t need anything offset or cantilever or QD, just need something better than airsoft / CTD quality. I’d like to not have to spend as much on the mount as on the light so I don’t need Larue anything.
Just need something so I can mount one of the above lights at 3 o’clock on a rail that will clear a 1.37" bezel if I decide to go with the P2X Fury.
You have to go an be all uncool and shit and make it hard don’t you? :jester:
Other then Larue I am at a lose for standard mounts and are just straight inline mounts. I don’t think many even make them any more do they? Everyone is offset and fancy and shit.
Anyway, cheap-ish, and possibly quick solution, at least until someone posts a better one, might an a spare scope ring that will fit the body of the lights. Not high speed, but could work.
Next option, maybe troll the E&E for a Larue mount, lol.
I have one in a box o’ crap somewhere, though I think it’s the (now discontinued) model for 1.010" lights like the G2. You can have it if you want, may be good enough to test fit or you can run a 1" light with a piece of heatshrink on it which is what I ended up doing for a couple years.
Appreciate it, but having to modify or rig up things to work drives me nuts. The cost of the Vltor 1" mount that correctly fits the lights I want to run isn’t very much.
a full-length VFG or shorty? either way, if you’re using the VFG ‘properly’ (without your whole hand on it), the 1 o’clock position is more natural for your thumb to reach.
Word! In order for me to run a light at 3, I’d have to put my hand down on the VFG like milking a cow or some such. Even with a VFG My thumb still most naturally activates a light at the 11 o’clock position.