Grant has always advocated using the strong thumb at the 9:00 position for actuating a White Light. His position has always been that if you “Choke the Chicken” on your VFG, you will “Jerk Off” the shot to the lower left. I have somewhat resisted this theory until today (by default) when I received Grant’s 6V Scout Light Package with the LaRue Mount. Grant subversively did me in!
I met the “Brown Santa Claus” (UPS Driver) at my door in anticipation of receiving my new piece of equipment (along with an Aimpoint M3 and LaRue Mount). I was doing the “Snoopy Dog Dance”! I tracked the UPS guy for days!
I proceeded to take my new “Bounty” out to my back porch on this glorious fall day in Colorado…after pouring myself a Jim Beam and Diet Coke. I carefully opened up my prize, dumped out the “Popcorn Packaging” and proceeded to gaze at my new found “articles of pleasure”. There it all was; the Impound, extra battery, LaRue High QD Mount, the Scout Light package components (I can’t believe I had to assemble this from the various Sure Fire components), the LaRue Mount, Batteries and spare Lumens bulb.
I carefully opened all of the little plastic bags, as the heavens started to open, and the Angels sang Hallelujah! I ran inside to pour another cocktail to settle my shaking hands so as not to drop one if the many tiny screws and components through my deck into “No Mans Land” in the gravel below where they were sure to be lost for eternity.
I veered into the Aimpoint box with awe. I always wanted one, and now it was mine! I fumbled around with the rubber cover and then realized I would need to assemble the LaRue mount on to the Aimpoint before being concerned with th e “Rubber Bikini”. I mounted the Aimpoint (without Loctite) to get it ready to position it perfectly on my MRP upper before locking it into the mount.
Now it was time to assemble the multitude of pieces that make up the “G&R 6V, Sure Fire Scout Light Package”. Arghhhhh! Way too many pieces for someone who is so “Mechanically Reclined”. After assembling the light, and making sure it lit up, I moved to putting it into the LaRue mount.
I ever oh so carefully decided what direction I wanted the QD lever to be oriented to my rail and the light. I then proceeded to put the LaRue supplied Loctite on to the mount screws and locked it in. (This was the beginning of where Grant gets HIS way with me.)
I proceeded down to my shop to mount the Aimpoint and the Scout Light on to my MRP rail. The Aimpoint went right where I wanted it with the LaRue QD lever on the correct side. I proceeded to mount my new G&R Scout Light on to the rail always preferring to have the lever on the bottom, and the light at 3:00This is where the Devil (Grant) gets his due!
I quickly noticed that with the QD lever on the bottom of the Scout Light package, that the mount interfered with my 3:00 position on the rail. It wouldn’t go there because the TD VFG was in the way of the “Bottom Lever Mounting” that I so carefully laid out. No Problem!!!
I took the light off, and went to unscrew the previously Loctighted screws that attached the mount to the light. HANG ON…I’m getting to it!
For the first time in owning 7 different LaRue Mounts…I stripped the Hex Head on one of the mounting screws when trying to unscrew it, and couldn’t re-orient my light in the mount so the QD lever was on top for the 9:00 position. I had one of two options:
(a) Mount the light 180 degrees at 3:00 with the beam blinding me in the face, or
(b) Mount it at the 9:00 position where I would have to operate the light from my weak thumb on the weak side of the rail, and couldn’t “Choke the Chicken” any longer, and let Grant win by default! Double Arghhhh!!!
I chose (b), instead of fighting with a theory that is probably more well founded than mine…after 4 Jim Beam and Diet Cokes! I felt “No Pain”!
What really pisses me off… the Sure Fie “Scout Light Logo” is now upside down on my rail…and of course that Grant wins!
Hope you found some smiles in this! I’m on my 6th Beam and Diet Coke!
Tack
