how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel today we are looking at the
streamlight protac rail mount hlx this is a thousand lumen rifle light let's check it out
all right guys in this video we were talking about the streamlight protac rail mount hlx
this is a thousand lumen long gun light and it's one of the most popular on the market right now
for a lot of reasons one is the incredible value that you get for your money with everything that
comes with this light if you look here you'll see everything that comes with it you're not
only going to get the light you're also going to get your picatinny mount your pressure pad switch
tail cap a way to mount that pressure pad with a couple different sizes of zip ties to go along
with that and an adhesive mounting pad and you're getting all of that for right around 120 bucks now
just as a comparison if you were going to look at a similar sure-fire light you're going to have to
buy all these things separately you're going to have to get the light the tail cap is separate the
pressure pad is separate your mount is separate and by the time you've done all that you've spent
about four hundred dollars for a very comparable light to what you're getting here from streamlight
the only other light that i know that's even going to come close to that kind of value is one that
i've already reviewed and that's going to be the olight odin now i know a lot of people give olight
a hard time but i actually really like this light you're going to get around the same lumen count
and you're going to get a lot of the same type of accessories that come with this light you don't
have to buy them separate and i have done a review on that so make sure you check that out but the
reason we're looking at the stream light today is because i'm thinking that this stream light may be
a replacement for that o light with streamlight you're sure to get a good quality light
from a reputable name brand and there are a lot of great features about this light that we're going
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so looking at some of the specs of the streamlight protac rail mill hlx again
this is a 1000 lumen light so it is going to be very bright the length of this light is going to
come in right at 5.43 inches the weight is going to come in at 6.4 ounces which is not bad at all
now this light does have three settings you're going to get a high a low and a strobe and it is
programmable you can program it to give you a high on one click and then a strobe on a double click
you can program it too high only and then you can program it to a low and then transition to a high
so talking about those looming counts real quick on the high you are going to get 1000 lumens for
about an hour and a half and that 1000 lumens comes out to about 27 600 candela so it's a
very bright light it's throwing a lot of light down range to eliminate whatever you're trying
to light up on the low setting you're going to get 60 lumens for around 20 hours at 1
600 candela and then on the strobe you're going to get about two and a half hours of run time
this light does operate off of a rechargeable b26 battery and you can see here you do have to take
the battery out to charge that your charging cable is going to plug right into the battery itself now
aside from the obvious benefits of being able to recharge your battery you are going to get
slightly higher lumen counts and longer run times out of the rechargeable battery but you can also
run this light off of two cr123 batteries so streamlight calls this their dual fuel light
because you can run it off of both battery sources the rechargeable battery as well as the
two cr123 batteries so i love to have options i think that is a great feature of this light
they advertise a beam distance of 332 meters so it is going to have a nice long throw to really
project that light down range now we are going to get out on the range here in just a little bit and
test this out and show you just how bright it is at different distances now looking over here at
the pressure pad i do like the pressure pad that they send along with this you're going to get a
large momentary pad here as well as a constant on and off button here on the top now the mounting
option for the pressure pad is just these two little clips that clip onto your picatinny rail
and then the pressure pads just going to slide into there like that as you can see it does have
these little recessed areas here and that's for you to use these zip ties to really secure that
down but like i said they do also offer this adhesive strip that's going to fit right here
on the back and so you can use that as well to really secure that in place that is one thing
even though some people like to hate on the o light i did think olight provided a really nice
solution for the pressure pad switch it's a larger mounting surface that clips down on that picatinny
rail and the pressure pad slides in now of course this pressure pad is only one switch you don't
have the two switch option that you see in the stream light this light is going to have a very
durable anodized aluminum construction and an impact resistant lens now looking over here at
the lens you can see it's a nice large bezel here with a smooth style reflector and one large led
in the middle back here on the tail cap you'll see that it does have these raised portions here on
the body of the light to protect that tail cap from accidentally getting bumped and turned on
and this light is going to have an ipx7 water resistance rating with the standard cap and an
ipx4 rating with the pressure pad cap and that is going to be more than enough to protect this light
from rain or a drop in a mud puddle or something like that looking down here at the provided mount
this is an integrated picatinny rail mount has a nice large adjustment knob here while very robust
if you did want to switch this out for a different style mount you can do that it has two screws here
to take this off and there are other mounts on the market that you can use now i would have also like
to see this come with an m lock style mount as well or at least one other option but it is nice
that you can take this off and switch it out for an aftermarket mount if you want to now that is
another area that i thought olight did very well is with the mount that they provide with that odin
light is a very cool 45 degree mount that mounts on m lock rails and it has this nifty feature
where you hit the button here and it just unlocks and that light comes right off easy on easy off
so like i said i do like the olight and it has a lot of really nice features for the
money but i do think overall the construction and the quality of the stream light itself
may be just a little bit better so we're gonna try this out for a little while
and see which one we like best now let's get this bad boy mounted see what it looks like and then
we will take it out to the range and really test this thing out to see just how bright it is all
right guys so here's a look at it mounted on what i actually ended up doing was mounting a little
picatinny rail section here onto my m log and then just attaching the light from there got it mounted
as far forward as possible and i actually don't mind this pressure pad mounting solution after all
it does have a pretty cool feature it's actually got a little cavity in there that's designed for
uh helping you manage those cables so i thought that was pretty cool just kind of playing around
with the setup here i'm not sure if i want this constant on button at the back or the front but uh
since this is a short barrel my hand rides pretty far up here and i don't want it rested on that
button all the time so um i really don't see an issue coming back reaching back and hitting that
if i wanted a constant on uh it does have these screw holes and it came with two small screws i'm
not sure what the point of that is because i'm definitely not going to screw it down into the
rail so maybe somebody can tell me what are these little screws for that came with the streamlight
beats me it does stick out a pretty good ways from the hand guard here but i don't see that
being too big of an issue so this is the setup as we have it right now let's get this bad boy
out to the range and we will take a look at just how bright this streamlight protect rail mount is
all right guys here's our test of the streamlight protac hlx as you can see there's still a little
bit of light on the horizon there but that sun is almost down and you can see pretty much nothing
in front of us and here's that stream light as you can see this is just a huge wide beam
that burn back there is 50 yards away and it's about 65 foot wide so you can see that the flood
of our light is just a little bit wider than the burn so you can expect about a 65
foot flood at 50 yards and you can see it lights that berm up really well and those trees behind it
this closest barrel right here in front of us is about 10 yards away
and as you can see it lights that up no problem
the second barrel there is 25 yards away and then like i said that last one back there is
50 yards away so you're gonna have no problem at all lighting somebody up at 50 yards away
now let's go ahead and back up and see what this looks like at 100 yards
all right guys we are about a hundred yards away from the berm now
and as you can see it lights it up no problem at all
this is a very very bright light it is throwing a lot of light down range
all right guys that is it for the streamlight protac hlx let me know what you guys think i
gotta say guys for the money and for the value that you're getting with this light i really
don't think you can beat it in that price point and it really competes well with a lot of higher
cost lights out there on the market let me know what y'all think how does this compare
to the surefire how does it compare to the olight i think streamlight has proven over the years to
be a very good quality light manufacturer and i don't think this hlx is going to be any different
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