Red vs Green Laser

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10 years 4 months ago #41445 by OleCowboy
Red vs Green Laser was created by OleCowboy
I am new to lasers on weapons. They come in red and green. +'s, -'s, why do one vs another.

That said I hit a jackpot on this: Found this green laser at a gun show for $149 ($50 bucks off). Almost bought it. So doing a lot of research I find it on e bay for $24 bucks and $2 bucks shipping. My guess is its a rip off, some weak plastic deal, but for $24 I will look see.

It came today. WOW, machined alum, loaded with extras and I tried it last night. I drives a laser beam at least a full 1/4 mile that you can see. One hellva deal. Looking for a green laser then this is a go to.

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10 years 4 months ago #41450 by jtallen83
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Don't make up your mind till you get a few rounds off. I had a green Z-Bolt that was an issue laser early in the Iraq war and the lens fell out after a few mags. It worked great as pointer, put a big green circle on the water tower about a 1/2 mile from my house, till the lens fell out and went missing :angry:

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10 years 4 months ago #41451 by Libertarian623
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Check out this DBAL www.amazon.com/PEQ-15A-DBAL-A2-replica-D...&keywords=dbal+laser

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10 years 4 months ago #41452 by mlotziii
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Green lasers look cool.

Green lasers are also more easily detectable to the human eye.

However, one of the major manufacturers told me that the green laser diodes do not hold up to .308 rounds and larger for too many rounds. They are marketing them for .308 rifles now but I don't know if they have gotten more robust.

It's the only reason I have not bought one yet... but at $26 I think I'll have to get one of these!

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10 years 4 months ago #41461 by foxhunter
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My wife has a green laser flashlight that she uses for her Search and rescue stuff at night. Recently when I heard a commotion late on a dark night down by the barn, about a hundred yards away, I held the light( on wide beam) and hand guard together while looking through an AR 10 with a Nightforce 2.5-10x . I was pleased to discover that I could easily see and put the crosshairs on the barn cats that were causing the commotion by just holding the the light. Using this method, no reason to worry about what recoil will do to the light.No, I didn't shoot the cats.
That said, they seemed to know I had put the light on them, as they stopped fighting and looked my direction, so I assume animals can see it as well as humans.

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