SeaLife’s made it’s bones producing cameras and related photographic gear for SCUBA divers. And that’s no mean feat. Your products have to take a high pressure salt water licking and keep on ticking. Now, someone at the company looked at their Sea Dragon Mini 600 light and figured something that tough that cranks out 600 lumens would be perfectly suited for tactical work…as in clamped onto a Picatinny rail. On/off may be an issue for some, as the light’s designed to work by twisting the bezel rather than a more traditional press of a switch. But if you’ll be taking your rifle (or spear gun) down as far as 330 feet for an assault on SPECTRE’s underwater lair, this is the light for you . . .
MOORESTOWN, N.J. (Feb. 21, 2014) — SeaLife®, a leader in underwater photographic equipment, has introduced its new Sea Dragon Mini 600 light to the tactical market. Extremely powerful, durable and versatile, the Sea Dragon Mini 600 blasts a wide beam of bright, uniform illumination that’s unprecedented among compact weapon lights.
Originally designed as a dive light to illuminate underwater subjects evenly for wide-angle illumination and photography down to 330 ft., the features of the Sea Dragon Mini 600 make it exceptionally beneficial in the tactical environment. While most weapon lights focus their beams into a concentrated spot to maximize brightness of their elements, the Sea Dragon utilizes a single newly developed CREE XM-L2 LED and a purposefully designed smooth reflector to create a 75-degree circular flood at a blinding 600 lumens. The Sea Dragon’s wide field-of-light output makes identifying secondary threats—or non-threats—in close-quarters operations instantaneous and fluid.
The Sea Dragon’s solid polycarbonate body was intentionally designed without switches, which can fail when operating in harsh environments. Rather, a simple 3-degree twist of the anodized aluminum bezel turns on the light. Precise threading and three sealing O-rings between the bezel and the body make activation smooth, silent, reliable and predictable.
Internal shockproof electronics provide two settings that allow the user to select either 100-percent or 40-percent power with an easy “on-off-on” cycling of the light. A pair of CR123 lithium ion batteries provide a burn-time of 60 minutes at full power, while a single rechargeable Tenergy 18650 li-on battery (optional) will operate the Sea Dragon for 100 minutes on full power.
The Sea Dragon Mini 600 weighs just 3.5 ounces (without batteries) and measures 5 inches long with a head diameter of 1.3-inch inches. Each light includes a Y-S monopod adaptor, a cold-shoe adaptor for a standard camera and a GoPro® adapter, as well as a safety lanyard for hand use, 0-ring lube and batteries. The suggested retail price is $129.95. The offset Picatinny rail adaptor is available separately for $19.95, and a spot-beam head is also available.
I’m offended by the fact that some fat fvck with delusions of adequacy can screw with the rights of South Carolinians.
I think the twist bezel would be a dealbreaker for me.
I don’t understand the comments that an AR is a relatively inexpensive rifle. I don’t own an AR, and have fired one on only a couple of occasions. In California anyway, it is a varmint rifle only, not otherwise legal for hunting. So I never understood the draw in the first place. I can buy a brand new Savage with a Nikon scope in almost any caliber up to .30-06 for under $500–why would I spend at least $1000 to get a rifle that shoots as accurately–but has no sights?
That said, and simply because Senator Deleon is an idiot who wants to ban unserialized lowers as evil “ghost guns” [despite the fact that until Jan 1 of this year, rifle purchases were not registered with the State–so why these homebuilts are special I have no idea] I built an 80% lower. With nothing more than a slightly improved trigger and a California bullet button, I am in almost $200. That was fun, and I appreciate some of the neat engineering that went into it, but I may never build an upper.
If I put together the upper I want, the barrel alone will cost $300, the receiver at least $100 (or double that for a VLTOR), and a chromed or nickel boron BCG another $100-$200 plus, to say nothing of handguards or float tubes ($100 to $300), and sights (iron sights I’ve seen so far start at $100 each and I’d want a scope for my tired old eyes). I appreciate the almost infinite customizability of the platform, but $1000 and up for an accurate varmint gun with a 400 m range seems a bit rich; not exactly my idea of relatively inexpensive.
Backwater, proto-fascist state. They like to eat goats. I ate goat once, at some Bangladeshi friends’ house. It made me jumpy.
Step two should be keep running to another location. The families of everyone who’s been shot while ‘sheltering in place’ should be able to sue the policy makers.
The military used to change arms fairly often before the Korean war, and for good reason: it wasn’t that hard. Now with a standing military (rather than mobilization army) the logistics of changing platforms is a nightmare… not only do you have to switch weapons (that’s a lot of weapons!) but think about having to rotate training to all the soldiers who know how to use the M16\M4. That’s why some other nations are able to have sexier guns they switch out every few years, it’s not as much of an investment. Then you have the testing… the army couldn’t even figure out how to replace the M9!
So “good enough” sometimes has to be “good enough.”
“You might say so, especially after reading Ban the Second Amendment, but I couldn’t possibly comment”
Mattie could’ve used a gun, that’s for sure!