How close can a light be to a brake?

[greentips]

I will not mount any light or laser in front of any ports.

The carbon and soot will cover up your light or laser, essentially it cuts down your output. Why will I bring a 200 lumen light and mount it in a way to lose 100 lumen to soot, if I can avoid it ?

And what is the advantage of mounting it over the muzzle, just to avoid that little barrel shadow/blind spot?

I bought a laser the ex-owner covered the diffuser with so much carbon it became useless, because he mounted it over the muzzle. I guess he learnt his mistake and I spent 15 minutes cleaning up his mistake.

 

[Valsa]

Replace the foregrip for one with rail or one with integrated light.

 

[JACKSMYDOG]

Lens light filters can be had fairly cheap, and work great to keep the clear glass on the light head clean. They slide off in an instant if you need to use the white light, and the filter glass can be removed for easy soaking/cleaning.

Never mind commenting on redundant lights on a rifle, that's a story for another day

 

[AFisher]

Naw. We're gonna comment on why you have two lights on your gun.....


Also. Like Greentips said, run it in a way that the ports in your hider or brake arent spraying carbon onto the light. There's zero point to running it that far and you'll lose lumens you paid for.

 

[JACKSMYDOG]

Naw. We're gonna comment on why you have two lights on your gun.....


Also. Like Greentips said, run it in a way that the ports in your hider or brake arent spraying carbon onto the light. There's zero point to running it that far and you'll lose lumens you paid for.

Twelve inch handguard losing 3 to the lights, and 5 or 6 to your hand, doesn't leave much room as is. They are still a few inches behind the flash hider, but do get dirty over time. Using the $7 and $12 filters prevents any loss of lumens on the expensive head units, and can be removed in an instant when required. They are cheap, easy to clean, and add a bump/scratch level of protection to the head units as well.