The Weaponlight Surefire Doesn't Want to Talk About
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- What if the government asked you to make them a flashlight and then told you that you did a good job on the flashlight and then didn't buy the flashlight? How would that make you feel?
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2:45 The KM3 head was for the Millennium lights, the Scout lights like the M620V used the smaller KM2 head - กีฬา
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I feel like "hop buys terrible product, roasts it, and the sells it as limited edition hop merch to recoup costs" is fucking hilarious and every review youtuber should try it
Oh you mean like Brassfacts and Elcans?! Except he keeps them... 🤦♂️
yea i need this to go on my limited edition hopsurp 4in ar9 dear hop pls sell this to me
“Touched by infamous TH-camr”
@berryreading4809 Elcans are terrible products now?
@@berryreading4809 He literally said he didn't keep his SpecterDR...
Trijicon, Leupold, and now surefire.
The thrilling conclusion to the trilogy where hop digs up a jank discontinued products and then bullies the company for 10min.
isn’t that we’re he found you, it’s a tactical doodle but it’s blemo
Big words coming from the Elcan shill! 🔎🤨 😘👍
You kept hopping over Hop on your IR laser tier list. You're better than that , Brass.
This is the way.
whoa! brassfacts? Didn't expect to see you here, you watch hop as well?
surefire is about to sneak some olights under hop’s pillow for this one
olights are fine, dont be a snob
@@fuckingstupidthatihavetoma2528 If you like a grenade with a flashlight attached to it, sure.
Is that’s an assassination attempt?
@@kevinw4267yes.
Assassination attempt? Possibly... But it would definitely be arson at the very least...
I used one of these for several years including a deployment. We loved it due to the pros discussed here and never saw that radio issue FWIW 🇺🇸🔦
Fun fact I got to know since a friend of a friend was the movie set armorer on "Sicario", the "hero" rifle had an original SureFire 720v, but the "stunt" rifle had a non IR airsoft replica of it, just to avoid getting it destroyed/ruined in impacts.
So the weapon light had a stunt double, hilarious 😂
Instructions for light unclear; wound up being dragged into an ethically questionable CIA operation for bureaucratic reasons.
FUN FACT: You can trip GFCI wall outlets with a radio if you key one up within a few inches of the outlet. We do it all the time where I work as a prank when someone is trying to type a report.
So I can believe radio interference might cause this light to activate.
The vehicle radios on our work trucks put out enough watts that the garage has had to move the antennas on most of them. The contractor who modified them for us placed the antennas too close to the overhead light bars, which causes the antenna's output to trigger one or more of the LED blocks in the light bar. Usually in white light mode, but there are a few that flashed red/blue before they got dragged to the garage and fixed.
There's also a Tahoe that starts running the entire rear panel of the light bar every time the transmission is put in reverse, but that's a wiring issue, not an RFI issue.
I will try that at my job the next time I am in the break room. I will try on the outlet for the coffee pot.
I think you need to start a channel called “Forgotten Accessories” where you fully let your accessory ‘tism loose on the world…
Good God that thing is so complicated it needs its own MOS.
Thought the same. 'Press button, get light' in high stress situations is about as difficult as it needs to be.
@@hateferlifeWhich it is, if you set it up correctly. You're not going to be switching from IR-Visible or High-Low during high stress. You can just use the pressure pad usual or finger the button on the light.
That's like, your opinion, man.
@@hateferlife I mean, think about it. You go into a mission with a set-up light. Either you use the pads, or you use the button on the light itself. The pads work the usual way, the button is hold/double tap.
If I need my light in a high stress situation, I press the pad on my gun.
You aren't going to be switching modes in a high stress situation anyway. You won't go, "Oh shit, I'm taking fire, I need to lower my lumens" You'll go "Oh shit, I need my weapon light" and tap on the pads.
@@-Seeker- "You aren't going to be switching modes in a high stress situation anyway." Yeah, because I wouldn't carry this hunk of crap.
Dual-illumination WML are mostly a gimmick. The lock/IR/white heads don't seem too bad but they'd have to be more than just friction-to-adjust.
I had one flashlight with dual heads and broke it as often as I could.
'Press button, get light' is the best, better, and only option imvho.
I love old and stolen surplus flashlights.
Hi Randy
Me too I have a tomahawk NV flashlight I “found” best little hand held Ive used
😂
We call that "tactically acquired" in the army 😎
S.T.E.A.L.
Strategically Transfer Equipment to Alternate Locations
“And what the fuck does flashlight mean? The whole thing is a flashlight” got me
Fleshlight
I’m old enough that I remember when a Maglight was state of the art. I still have one kicking around the house somewhere. It is amazing how much flashlights have improved.
It's amazing how long Maglight REFUSED to update their lights to use LEDs and when they did, they were STILL obsolete.
I still have my old two D cell that I used to carry in my truck
@@prototype3aand somehow they still have market share, they do make a good club.
solofish will blow your mind
@@alanmeyers3957 Not really since the tube is actually quite thin aluminum. Convoy L6 makes a far better club but very few people know about the L6 and my 3x 26650 L6 is even more rare as they didn't make the extension tube for very long.
Wilson Combat wanted me to ask why the heck do you need a WML!? Don't shoot the messenger! 😂
Hackathorn: Thinks lights on pistols are a silly waste. Also has zero compunction with telling people a $5,000 single stack pistol is a must.
I know everyone's just running with the meme, but devil's advocate here: he meant that in the context that they're overrated in concealed carry scenarios and he believes you're better served with a separate pocket light.
And I tend to agree, for concealed carry. If you're in a truly dark scenario where you cannot positively ID anything around you, drawing your weapon in order to do so is reckless and dangerous. Pointing a pocket flashlight at someone's face in the dark might be a jerk move, but it won't get you arrested like pointing your weapon at them will. I also like keeping my CCW as low profile as possible and to me it's more comfortable to carry a small pocket light on a clip next to my knife than a weapon mounted light.
I know, I must be a lot of fun at parties, etc etc.
Home defense, bump in the night, and your LARP special weapons, yeah, toss a light on 'em.
@@stevem4783 I think everyone is entitled to their opinion. It's nuts lol
@@threat2demoracy5454 I just think it's crazy how many people are trashing him without actually listening to the full clip of what he said, but hey, that's the internet for you
@@stevem4783You're saying that Twitter/X text buffers, TikTok, and TH-cam shorts reduce your attention span? No! Say it isn't so! 😂
US SOCOM: Make us a weaksauce pistol light for our rifles. But make it EXTRA.
Surefire: Wut?
US SOCOM: (Waving $$) EXTRAAAA
Surefire: (pockets $$) We can never talk about this…
Hop: the Chris Hansen of the gun world, hello Surefire, have a seat and let’s talk about this.
The CIA really did us a disservice by letting him go😂
If you don't have a Hellfighter 5 on your rifle, you don't truly operate.
we have quad rails for a reason, true operators run 4 hellfighters on their rifle
I prefer Helldivers 2
@@CertifiedSunset Hail Democracy
@@Weimerica8841 For Liber-Tea!
For when you need to see the future.
Ahh, the eternal struggle obtain even older and worse equipment.
Oh excellent another video from Gun Stephen King about another product I will never put on my stock Ruger AR-556 let’s fuckin gooooo
“Gun Stephen king” I’m never going to unsee that…
Lesbian Stephan King with a bit of michael jackson
@@chromosomehoarder6927 So is this like a double negative where one kid diddler cancels out the other kid diddler?
😂 now thats some funny shit right there
I loved that "and WTF does Flashlight mean, isn't the whole thing a flashlight?!"
"Block II Clone F4g"
New band name i call it
Need a meme lower receiver now
I turned on Closed Captioning to make sure I heard that right and it was censored so I now know for sure that I heard what I heard. LMAO!
I came here to see if someone else caught on. Made me do a double take, then proceed to laugh myself into a coughing fit. Only shit that Hop can come up with 😂😂
Wondering if anybody caught that🤣😂
Glad somebody’s calling out the clone bois 😂
Never realized incandescent bulbs are used for infrared emitters. But that makes a lot of sense now. Learn something every day..
Nah we have IR LED now, an LED just can't do both vis and IR so they have to switch around the diodes
@@haley746 Ahh, I see, gotcha. That makes even more sense. Thanks
Take the rifle bang it on the vehicle door jam and see how often the battery door pops open, now you understand why this light was disliked. It takes surprisingly little shock to pop the battery door open and disable the light and if you didn’t run the tape switch as many didn’t you now had a disabled light and no batteries
Nothing a little 100mph tape couldn't fix
I have one of these I bought at the German PX in Kandahar. I thought it was a cool trinket to bring back. Never knew it had won contracts.
German PX was my favorite place to go while on refits
What else did they have?!
Hop GWOT mode > Brock SHTF mode.
Can't trust Brock. Its those beady serial killer eyes.
Now THIS is a topic that needs light shined on it.
You just made Ken Hackathorn sad.
I see what you did there 🤣
This is almost like @ForgottenWeapons if Ian covered more weapon accessories. More than he has in the past that is, like the old machine gun mounts, bayonets, and swords Ian has covered.
"...buy this one..."
No, sir. That's _your_ hot potato.
video becomes watchable at 12:50
HE IS RIGHT 🫡
Got me, I should get more sleep.
@@natsuccubus well dressed bachelor caught in camera
When I was GRS (peak GWOT) we had the Insight M3 (and the new and sexy 416D). When I switched to DPS (CONUS team), we had the sexy-for-the-time-Pentagon light/laser combo.
I’ve got the M620V on my GWOT build and the first thing I did was sell the mount on eBay. 🤷🏻♂️
What video game can you pretend to be GRS?
Both Sicario movies are outstanding.
Number one is a must watch, number two, not as much.
They are movies that are definitely good, not realistic, but good.
@@HWG-wm8ld
I know a guy that will tell you otherwise, at least about the first one.
Me genuinely tweaking in the corner with my TLR-1 (I have no concept of what a lumen is)
"What the hell is a 'throw' anyway?" -me, duct-taping OLIGHTs together like old-timey dynamite bundles for Maximum See
Easily one of the weapon lights of all time!
Of all the weapon lights ever made this is one of them.
You are quickly becoming the forgotten weapon accessory channel.
I have a M720V and I love it! Got it used for about 350.
Same here. Got mine for 300 or so a couple years ago and I absolutely love it. The complicated settings don’t really bother me. I don’t find myself worrying about changing settings when I’m out using the weapon at all, but it is nice to have the ability to change my IR output on the fly depending on ambient lighting conditions if I want to.
Got one years ago, still works like a champ. That being said, the scout does nearly everything thing you would ever need in a smaller package.
You're making the best videos. Thanks for covering all the classic stuff.
i love how he always finds the weirdest things to reivew and go over. Not for the sake of product placement or anything just to show how cool or dumb something from the past was
He will stick around after the other rubes are still debating 9 vs 45 vs 10 vs laser beam
If you want enough of something, we'll build it. :)
DUAL FUEL TURBO VAMPIRE?!
This comment is beautiful. I will now be a surefire customer without question.
One of the Air Force Security Forces dudes we had in our small detachment in Afghanistan had the M720V on his issue rifle
HOP!!!!... absurdly well done video... the humour is a BLAST.. the info 1st rate. DON'T STOP.. AWESUM CONTENT!!!
Always learning stuff. Love these videos.
As always, great stuff, thank you HOP.
I worked in a CA unit back in 2013-14 we had a a dozen or so in ours armsroom never used them because we were told our comms interfere with them
Thanks for sharing with us Hop
Thank you for another great video. You really do have some of the best content on TH-cam.
I’m really liking this kinda “forgotten weapons” format but with firearm accessories. Keep the weird old stuff coming, hop!
I love the new Forgotten Weapons-esque deep dives.
I love this. I can't afford to clone, but hearing the history and etc. behind all of this stuff is great. Appreciate you doing the leg work to be able to share with the rest of us.
>be me
>see new video
>"Sweet, more obscure goodness. Whadja slap on a rifle this time, Hop?"
>it's a Surefire flashlight with a crooked ass-end
>holdup.wav
>intense flashback to 2011
>dig through old magazine collection
>find volume 9 issue 2 of Combat Tactics magazine
>feature article about the Colt SCW
>shown utilizing that same exact Surefire light
>dude in the photos had it mounted on the bottom rail and held onto it in the goofiest way possible due to limited spacing
>forever stuck in my mind because it looked like he was about to ask the SCW to turn and cough
I love it when the 'tism comes together.
Super neat and a great explanation Hop! Atta boy, you're killing dude 🤘🤘
a great very interesting video and product Mr Hop.have a good one.
I managed to snag one of these new off of eBay for a movie gun build. I wanted to make my DDM4A1 a replica of what Josh Brolin carried in Sicario. The lumens output on this is average at best but the infrared beam is pretty cool. I don’t have any night vision equipment but in the dark my security cameras pick up the infrared beam. They are getting a bit hard to find now but if you want some SOCOM goodness from the 2010’s, pick one up! Cheap plug but my Sicario gun build is on my YT channel. Watch out as there are fakes out there. The fakes don’t put out an actual infrared beam.
New Hop video!
New Mabs comment!
hi mabs :3c
I work all day just to drive home to the new hop video playing in the background
Hey hop. Thanks for making the vids you do.... I just get stoned and binge watch all of them. 🤙🏼
I've had one of these little tanks on a 416 upper/mr556 lower Kraut-Franken gun for a hot minute and I love it. Had it not had a plug outlet for pressure switchology goodness, it would have never have been considered at all LOL
Hop always coming through to show people like me things I’d never get a chance to even see 😂👍
I love that you posted this on tacswap shortly after this video posted lol
The algorithm requires engagement
I'm a simple man, I see new Hop video i click.
Holy sh*t a buddy gave me one long ago, he had a shop was given some demo's back in the day. I had no idea it was so complicated, I thought it was broken and just had low output(no tape switch). Thanks for the vid Hop!
this is best channel for things that glow
I love these “Gear of ShotShows Past” videos!!
Thanks Hop. It all makes sense now
Hop continues his "Forgotten Flashlights" quest.
Preserving history like none other. Great video, Hop!
Thanks man :)
Thanks for the video Ms. Jenner
Holy cow, didn't know I didn't need that, until now! Good job my favourite boomer 13 year old tactical grandma'phile.
Surefire: "Thank you for finding the remaining material Hop..."
DELETE
*Inserts Mandela effect*
I got 2 tan M720V in great condition for just USD 300 each. I guess that's a steal
Great video. I remember looking at those years ago and always having a heart attack over the price lol.
Interesting video! For what is essentially two LEDs and a button it's facinated just how overengineered it went, to the point of having to consider the effects of radio interference. I wonder if people will forget to take that into account for future computerized optics and accessories.
I’m old. And I’ve been a student of gun industry news since 1995. I do not remember this light. I remember the insight lights, and when they used to say 60 lumens was more than enough output for self defense. 90 lumens is almost dangerous. 110 lumens will permanently damage eyesight!
In addition to the regular m952v, and vampire scouts branded as m952v(starting around 2018), you can find some line infantry units that have boat loads of these for whayever reason.
Thanks hop. Lights are cool
Hop Balaclava arch he’s in his villain mode
My favorite triple A creator. Adventures in accessory autism.
More electronics = more likely to break under recoil. Still a really cool light
On M2 maybe
Going to start calling this channel: "FORGOTTEN ACCESSORIES"
Damn you really said it out loud haha.
Always wanted to try one out but even seeing them lightly used for $250 I pass. Thanks for the in-depth look & history of that abomination!
Actually, a little known fact is that the FSB "Alpha group" of Russia was probably the largest user of the M720V in the 2010-2014 period. Back in the good old days when Uncle Sam and Ivan conducted based SOF training together. Rad pics with MP5s, Vityaz and "Alpha" AK105s showing M720Vs can be found online.
I still have my first issue of Recoil, there was an article covering night vision equipment of the time and that light was in there, I thought it looked peculiar
When was the last time you played Stalker lol?
Nice vid- thanks!
“wow hop looks so kissable in this one” - Nat
LEPs with a quick flip diffuser are going to be the future of weapon lights im calling it.
Seems like SF just wanted to try out some new weapon light concepts and mixed and matched and came up with this light. Someone said “oh crap, we spent too much $$$$ on this POS, what will we do??? Along comes the US Government with an unlimited budget and SF gets to recoup $$$$. I am still waiting for SF to do a “retro” LAM so I can have my clone correct “.45 long slide whiz Lazuh sight” from the 1st Terminator movie. Great video and thanks for posting.
SF is a unit in the army, not an entire community.
@@HWG-wm8ld SF was intended to mean Surefire.
"And what the fuck does flashlight mean?" killed me lmfao
I’m just here for Hop’s dry sense of humour.
You should have renamed your channel to “forgotten weapon accessories”
I have to be honest, this thing tickles a part of my brain just right for a specific look we only got in accessories and gear during a very short window. When it seemed that nobody in the industry ever considered cost in making anything.
When hop posts, it’s a good day
Glad I stuck around until the end. Cat content will always get a thumbs up from me.
I have one and I love it.
I wonder how many emails surefire has gotten 😂
What we have here is failure to illuminate.
😂
The Wiki page he showed was insane
Its weird to hear the m620v talked about like its a hidden wml. This was the only weapon light my unit had and the one I have on my gun. I think of the 620v when I think of surefire rifle weapon lights
Best quote of the week flew right under the radar. 😂
Love all your videos! Any chance you could review the tikka t3x super varmint? I'm considering one in 6.5 creedmoor. Thanks.