I did a search and found very little on these. Is there anyone out there currently using one? In theory it sounds fantastic…a laser “flashlight” if you will sending a focused 8-10 inch green beam out well beyond 100 yards. Like a laser spotlight. I’m just trying to see if there would be any real world advantages over a traditional weapon light? Beyond longer distance. How would it work at close range?
I was wondering the same thing, and found this through a site search
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I think LG is just a “toy”. I looked at one several months ago and from I remember LG is owned by BSA (or some other Chinese name). It might be fun for shooting hogs or other night shooting.
I don’t think a laser would ever replace a weapon light, especially because it isn’t a good enough light source to identify a threat at an extended range and it is so narrow at close range.
But maybe it’s just me…
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I agree that this is probably not a serious use tool. I have no illusions about it replacing the $3K NV scope we also use. However, for less than $250, I think I might get one to play with.
I own one…definetly NOT a replacement for a weapon light, spotlight, or NV. Cool idea but it sucks.
I used it once for night time hog and varmit slaying, once the novelty wore off the good ol’ 10 mil candle power spotlight and Surefire 951 were back to proving their worth.
The beam is too small past 100yds. You have to adjust beam diameter in order to have usable light at whatever range you are scanning.
The “mounts” that come with it are very low quality, I planned on mounting it to my rail. The mount wouldn’t tighten up and the beam has to be so small at distance for usable brightness that I could only see half of the beam through my ACOG(no way to align it with the rail mount). Bino mount is a joke also.
Very hard to find the beam through magnified optics while unmounted.
Not recommended as a weaponlight at any distance for two reasons
- Probably won’t take recoil for very long
- Beam is not bright when fully expanded, which it would have to be indoors to get maximum coverage.
It also doesn’t do very well in cold weather…