Lamp Mounting Question

[on-point 0]

i have a problem: i have a lightforce 170 lamp which is great and i love to bits. i normally use it to run my dog on and occasionally clear up a few bunnies with a .22 with a mate from the car. as it is i now have an additional use for it which involves me both lamping and firing the rifle while walking about on my billson.

 

now if i was feeling flush with cash i would get one of those 170 scope mounted lamps witht the squat handle - but it has to be a waste of money doesn't it? there is a perfectly good brass thread going into the bottm of the lamp handle and there has to be a piece of kit somewhere that is just a modified scope mount with a screw coming off it? doesn't there?

 

now i think that someone on this site must have one or has made one or something as i am not spending £ when i already own one that would do.

 

any thoughts would be welcomed - i have found a short bolt which fits the thread but have lost the spare set of crappy scope mounts i pulled off my .243.

 

on-point

Edited December 1, 2008 by on-point

[SUNDAYBAIN 19]

BUT HOW WOULD YOU ADJUST LAMP UP OR DOWN

[Guest JohnGalway]

Save yourself the hassle, no offence, either buy a scope mounted model (new/secondhand) or try and do a swap with someone. Not the answer you're after but I think you're going to make your life more complicated than you need to to be 100% honest with ya.

[on-point 0]

not sure thats why i thought i would ask, there has to be something that would do - even if i got it so that the beam was central at about yards...that would be something.

anything would be better than the current set up of balancing the rifle and lamp on each other and trying to keep the whole thing lined up while taking a shot

[SUNDAYBAIN 19]

Totally agree with john get a scope mounted striker

[on-point 0]

john,

 

i mayu have to do that then. could you recomend any CHEAP scope mounted lights. not doing anything that requires shots over 100 yards so does not need to be massively bright.

[clivej 0]

I've been down that route of a cheap scope mounted lamp with the Cluson shootalite kit #2 @£90 but ended up paying extra for a bigger bulb @75watts, 30mm mount and it's still not as good as the 170. Money down the drain for me.

[SNAP SHOT 194]

check this out may be just wnat you need then..................

 

 

http://www.airrifleshop.co.uk/Accessories/Lamps.htm