Is the Surefire G2X still a good budget carbine light? I’m putting a bare bones carbine together and I need a light that isn’t too expensive. All the reviews I find are a few years old. Anyone have any recent experience?
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I have one I still use as a handheld. Its far from the latest or brightest, but if I were building a budget home defense gun, I’d have no hesitation using it. It works.
They work. Ideal? No. But if you got a little more to say, $120, you can get a a streamlight hl-x 1000 lumen rail mounted light which will give you the mount and a pressure pad and 30% more lumens.
Thanks. I have several other Surefire weapon lights on other rifles and pistols and they are awesome. This is definitely a budget build and I’m trying to talk myself out of spending $250+ for another M300C. $100 for the G2 and mount seems like a good deal if the light will hold up as well as the others.
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The Streamlight is a good light. I have one on my GFs rifle and it’s super bright but I haven’t used it very much. I’m using the A2 hand guards so I’ll have to use the tail cap switch instead of the pressure pad. Thanks
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Polymer Surefire lights are still GTG, perfectly usable mounted or handheld and preowned or sale examples are great values. Last pretty much forever with battery changes and occasional cleaning (threads, o-rings).
Obviously tons of other great options as well, but I’ll take a value priced new old stock or used Surefire over most lights.
My primary AR has had a G2X Tactical (high only) mounted to the handguard for years. The tail cap switch is perfect for how I use it and where it is mounted. I shot the mount loose twice before I refined my lok-tite skills, but the light has been problem free.
The new G2X lights are rated at 600 lumens, mine is 320. Something to consider if you find a used light.
Andy
This^^^
They’ve had their issues but I believe most of the bugs have been worked out. The tape switch was said to be the issue with random flickering but other products out there has fixed that. Over all what you get for the price will fit your needs.
I have the single battery SL rail-mount on my AR pistol and it has been fine. The mount is a bit bulkier than I like, but they also have a SF Scout light mounting pattern, which expands mount choices.
My Surefire light was made in the U.S., my Streamlight in China .
Andy
One of my “main” ARs has a G2X on it, it’s the 600-lumen model (I had the 300 lumen model on it prior to that). I also am still using Keymod - namely the BCM PKMR handguards, because I don’t really attach enough stuff to most of my guns to justify free float handguards for most of them, and have the G2X in a BCM keymod light mount in the 11 o’clock position.
I also previously used a G2X with a GG&G ring mount on a carbine that had a short section of pic rail bolted on to some CAR handguards.
I’ve been satisfied with how the G2X has performed in the carbine WML role, although granted it’s been pretty light duty compared to what some people put their gear through.
Ran a G2X and 6PL for several years on patrol rifles without issues other then the workable but less then ideal mounting options. The 6PL looks silver instead of black now and the G2X has a new tail cap due to DEET eating up the rubber on the original. Both survived being banged into car doors, door frames, trunk lids, metal consoles, gun racks, the ground and bouncing around in the trunk and front seat without issue. The VTAC mounts I used survived the same without issue other then PM to keep the screws tight. One of the Surefire’s and VTAC’s is on my Colt in the closet and the other’s on my scoped franken M4gery next to it for taking the odd potshot at O’dark thirty at coyote’s.