If you're in the market for a new weapon light, Cloud Defensive is having a "moonshine" sale next Wednesday. If you're cheap like me and care about performance more than looks, it will be worth checking out. I already had a couple of their lights but snagged two more last moonshine sale.
https://www.clouddefensive.com/
For anyone not familiar with the company, Cloud Defensive is one of several newer weapon light companies (along with Modlight and Arisaka) that are finally giving Surefire some competition and pushing weapon light development. They have 3 rifle lights: OWL, Rein Micro, and Rein (pictured here top to bottom). They're bright, durable and great lights.
That should give you a good idea of what the moonshine lights look like.
The OWL (Optimized Weapon Light) is kind of unique. Will fit on anything that a pic rail can be attached to and has the switch built into the body of the light. No wiring, no need to find extra rail space for a switch, bolt it on, go. It is also completely reversible with no tools. If you want the light on the opposite side of the gun, twist off the head and tail, flip the battery around, pop them on the opposite end of the light body, done. If you just need a basic light, it's a great option.
The Rein and Rein Micro are very similar. Micro is obviously smaller, runs off 18350 instead of 18650 batteries, slightly less output (but still super bright), less run time than the full sized Rein. When you buy a "kit" it comes like this:
You get the light, one battery, one charger, the remote switch+(pic rail mount for switch), a pic rail adapter for the light and a mlok adapter. Both Reins can also use any other scout mount on the market.
The mount for the switch has built in cable management and the tail cap is adjustable to help keep everything where you want it. If you mount the light then realize you need a little less or more more slack in the cable, take off the tailcap and put the switch at any 90 deg location on the light body to give you what you need. Kind of a neat feature.
Switch has momentary and on/off switch, tailcap also has a momentary/push on switch, so even if the cable or switch failed, you have another option to turn on the light(similar to the surefire DS00 tailcaps).
So you read all this, it sounds great, and then you go look at the price. $370 for a Rein kit?! Ouch. Good news! 1) that's why I mentioned the moonshine sale. I believe last sale Rein kits were $240 and OWLs were $270. So if you don't require monochromatic accessories, that's a great option. The other neat thing Cloud does is a trade in program. Send them any weapon light (or light that could be mounted as a weapon light) to get $100 off retail price of any of their lights.
If that's too much, stuff like the Streamlight HLX is still a good, cheap option. But, the Rein kits are really good deals compared to Surefire these days. $300 will get you a M600 with no remote switch and only a click tail cap. Compare that to everything you get with a Rein kit (especially a moonshine or trade in deal) and it's worth taking a look at if you need a new light.
Hope this helps somebody upgrade to a better light. If anyone has questions, I'll try to help.
https://www.clouddefensive.com/
For anyone not familiar with the company, Cloud Defensive is one of several newer weapon light companies (along with Modlight and Arisaka) that are finally giving Surefire some competition and pushing weapon light development. They have 3 rifle lights: OWL, Rein Micro, and Rein (pictured here top to bottom). They're bright, durable and great lights.
That should give you a good idea of what the moonshine lights look like.
The OWL (Optimized Weapon Light) is kind of unique. Will fit on anything that a pic rail can be attached to and has the switch built into the body of the light. No wiring, no need to find extra rail space for a switch, bolt it on, go. It is also completely reversible with no tools. If you want the light on the opposite side of the gun, twist off the head and tail, flip the battery around, pop them on the opposite end of the light body, done. If you just need a basic light, it's a great option.
The Rein and Rein Micro are very similar. Micro is obviously smaller, runs off 18350 instead of 18650 batteries, slightly less output (but still super bright), less run time than the full sized Rein. When you buy a "kit" it comes like this:
You get the light, one battery, one charger, the remote switch+(pic rail mount for switch), a pic rail adapter for the light and a mlok adapter. Both Reins can also use any other scout mount on the market.
The mount for the switch has built in cable management and the tail cap is adjustable to help keep everything where you want it. If you mount the light then realize you need a little less or more more slack in the cable, take off the tailcap and put the switch at any 90 deg location on the light body to give you what you need. Kind of a neat feature.
Switch has momentary and on/off switch, tailcap also has a momentary/push on switch, so even if the cable or switch failed, you have another option to turn on the light(similar to the surefire DS00 tailcaps).
So you read all this, it sounds great, and then you go look at the price. $370 for a Rein kit?! Ouch. Good news! 1) that's why I mentioned the moonshine sale. I believe last sale Rein kits were $240 and OWLs were $270. So if you don't require monochromatic accessories, that's a great option. The other neat thing Cloud does is a trade in program. Send them any weapon light (or light that could be mounted as a weapon light) to get $100 off retail price of any of their lights.
If that's too much, stuff like the Streamlight HLX is still a good, cheap option. But, the Rein kits are really good deals compared to Surefire these days. $300 will get you a M600 with no remote switch and only a click tail cap. Compare that to everything you get with a Rein kit (especially a moonshine or trade in deal) and it's worth taking a look at if you need a new light.
Hope this helps somebody upgrade to a better light. If anyone has questions, I'll try to help.
