Shotgun lights (Chicken defence)

Gee... I'm kind of disapointed :( I thought this was going to be a thread about which shotgun/ammo is best used against a possible chicken invasion... :D

Can't help you much with the light... Don't know how well the 'generic' light would handle recoil...

For a little more money, you could get a TK12

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Personally, if it's for so simple an application, a good mag light "Red Greened" (Yeap you guessed it, Duct Tape) onto your slide would make a fast device that should stand up to the recoil. Just ask a local cop to borrow his. Kidding.
 
I'll tell you what, I'm REALLY impressed with my Fenix PD30. I picked up two of them (on sale for $50 each) at the Calgary gunshow a little while back, and one now sits on my AR as a weaponlight.

The other is now my new EDC light.

It's got a bezel-selectable "variable" or "turbo" mode - screw the bezel down and you get the full 245 lumens, first-press of the button. 1.5 hours continuous rated, and definitely bright enough for anything inside 100m. Tried it out against a treeline in a city park, and I could have read a nametag if I needed to at about 80yds+. A half-press here gets you a strobe that is surprisingly easy to deal with from the "right end" but is disorienting as all get-out from the "wrong end." I stuck it on a table across a dark room and damn near fell over trying to get back to it. Had ZERO peripheral vision, and ZERO viz past the light.

Unscrew the bezel just a 1/4 turn or so, and the first press gets you a 10 lumen "lowest" setting, at which the flashlight is rated for 65 hours continuous usage.

Half-press the button once more, and it's now about 70 lumens (these numbers are approximate, since I don't have my product insert with me - it's all stated explicitly in the product literature though). About 7 hours runtime.

One more half-press and you're up around 120 or so (I think?). 4 hours runtime.

One MORE half-press and it's a dot-dot-dot dash-dash-dash dot-dot-dot SOS blinker at full illumination. You could stick it light-up in the snow or dirt and have a beacon on while you slept, for example. 4-6 hours or so stated runtime; I'd have to read it again.

At any rate, you can get a surefire mount (as I did for my AR) which provides a nice no-tools fix for picatinny mounting. If you want to "Red Green" it to your barrel I'm sure that'd work fine too, in a pinch.

Damn fine little light, and with a retail between $70 and $90 most places you look, it's a lot of light for the scratch. Don't forget to buy more lithium batteries for it though; they're a lot cheaper by the dozen or hundred-pack from a dealer than they are in singles or pairs from the drug store... I use the SureFire brand with a 10-year nominal shelf life at room temp, so I don't really worry about not going through a few dozen in 10 years...

Also, on all settings (lowest to highest) there's a nice central beam for spot illumination but there's a REALLY nice, soft, scattered 'corona' that makes navigation or reading a snap. Really, really nice light for the money IMO.

-M
 
Try to stay away from the cheap lights, they will break under recoil, I broke a few already trying to save money, but in the end it ends up costing a lot more than buying a quality light the first time. I have a Fenix TA30 on my shotgun, it is specifically designed to withstand recoil, the LED assembly has a spring behind it to absorb recoil. It has three brightness settings and strobe.
 
Maybe you should just get a good headlamp - that way you don't have to necessarily point the gun at places you might not want to shoot, seeing as it's close to your livestock.
 
P12 said:
Try to stay away from the cheap lights, they will break under recoil, I broke a few already trying to save money, but in the end it ends up costing a lot more than buying a quality light the first time. I have a Fenix TA30 on my shotgun, it is specifically designed to withstand recoil, the LED assembly has a spring behind it to absorb recoil. It has three brightness settings and strobe.
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+1

I did a shotgun nightfire course recently where I cheaped out on the mount and the light. It lasted about 5 rounds before it fell off.

The light lasted about 15.

I did better for the next course... :D

If it's one shot only, you might be able to cheap out though.
 
did you pickup the mossberg dual barrel package? if so, you can use that barrel clamp to attach a light to your tube... its what I did but im a cheap mofo :D
 
Foxer said:
Maybe you should just get a good headlamp - that way you don't have to necessarily point the gun at places you might not want to shoot, seeing as it's close to your livestock.
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I don't see how this makes any difference as your gun muzzle would be pointing where you are looking, otherwise you don't know what its pointed at in the dark. The light might as well be on the gun, then you don't have to go looking for it when there is an unexpected ruckus in the hen house. I would probably opt for one of the Sure Fire systems for their resiliency to hard use, but they are stupid expensive, and do tend to be more tactical than practical.
 
I've got a mesa tactical railed barrel clamp with a streamlight TLR1 on it. I prefre this to the surefire fore ends because its harder to acidentally turn the light on and because its lighter. You can also slip the light off if you want to.

Best part is. Its cheaper too.
 
5440fight said:
Dude, total disappointment thread. Bear defence= boring. Home defence= boring (and legally touchy)
Chicken defence= pure awesome!
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someone should send that to Magpul for their next video :p
Treebutcher, I got a Tacstar T6 from wholesale sports for $50 that does pretty good. Its only rated for 75 lumens for 1 hour (with 2 cr123's WTF?) but has stood up to quite a few rounds of various 3" full power buckshot and slugs on both my Benelli and Maverick without a hickup (until I put two 3.6v batteries in it, dont do that!) I slung it under the mag tube with a Tacstar #4 mount. It died to to over-voltage (or operator error...) or something, but took it all with zero problems. Now I run a Fab Defense Speedlight off the magtube with a DMW clamp w/ sling swivel stud. It is bright as hell and the tailcap switch is within easy reach of my thumb without letting go of the forend. Let us know how the chepie light holds up...im thinking about killing a little flashlight that we were given at work... I think I'll try a Fenix on my Benelli
 
So if anyone is wondering about the Fenix TK-12 that sillymike posted, it is crazy bright. I just got mine and tried it out tonight in the yard against my Fab Speedlight. Holy mother of light! Easily twice as bright as the speedlight with a really wide beam, I love it
 
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