![]() ![]() Your flashlight should be as close or closer to your bed as your pistol is.įlashlight Chapter of Indoor Range Practice Sessions FreeįTC Notice: The SureFire products were sent to me gratis but I receive no compensation for writing about them. If you own a pistol for personal protection, you should know how to use a flashlight along with it. That’s another good testing criterion for a flashlight.Īs a reminder, the flashlight shooting chapter of my book Indoor Range Practice Sessions is free to download. When I have the opportunity, I’ll have someone shine the SideKick in my face to see if it’s as blinding as the 6P is. That’s not the SideKick’s intended role but if it were pressed into service for that purpose, the user would have to be very careful not to get the hand holding the flashlight in front of the gun muzzle. Because of its size and switch location, none of the commonly taught flashlight shooting techniques will work with it. When batteries run low, SureFires micro-USB port. One thing the SideKick doesn’t do as well as the 6P is function as a shooting assist light. The 5 and 60-lumen modes provide ample light for close-up work, while preserving the life of the battery. The SureFire has three levels of lighting, 300, 60, or 5 lumens and provides 1.25 hours of illumination on high, 4 hours on medium, and 45 hours on low. The Low mode’s usability for this would depend on the user’s eyesight but that’s probably irrelevant for this usage. This showed that both High and Medium modes would provide more than adequate illumination to make the Don’t Shoot/Shoot decision. The Target ID test for it was on a prototype Recognition Primed Decision training target at 10 feet. It has 3 modes, low/5 lumens/45hrs, mid/60 lumens/4hrs and high/300 lumens/1hr. The SideKick throws a much wider pattern that is much more even throughout. Up for sale (lower 48 only) is a like new Surefire Sidekick flashlight. The 6P has very bright center spot with a less intense spill surrounding it. ![]() The throw pattern is clearly different than the 6P LED. MaxVision Beam® floods your boundaries with light triple output: 300, 60 and 5 lumens The order can be reprogrammed during the recharging process.Ĭomparing the SideKick to the 6P LED showed some noticeable differences. The literature says this is the opposite order of the factory order setting but that’s how it came. Mine cycles from High (300 lumens) to Medium (60 lumens) to Low (5 lumens) and then Off in order. The variability of output is controlled by quickly pressing the switch multiple times. If the switch is pressed a few seconds later the light turns off. Pressing the switch and leaving it puts the light in the High mode. The switch has two options, which are an improvement over some of the complicated switching patterns often found on tactical lights. When setting the light down as an impromptu worklight, the flat shape is much better than a round light, even one with a limited roll aspect. The carabiner attachment has been handy for removing and reattaching the light to the keychain.
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