Taping on weapon lights?

NO

Slop and recoil do not go together.

No. I can legitimately say I have NEVER taped ANYTHING to a firearm.

These responses are ridiculous to me. Ive JB welded a dovetail mount to a shotgun barrel before. Attached a maglite in scope rings, couple layers of electrical tape. Became the perfect possum gun with tons of rounds thru it and no sign of the "tactical" light loosening up. Whole rig cost 80 bucks

HB

I can legitimately say I have NEVER taped ANYTHING to a firearm.

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I'm not sure I understand the hatred for tape. Good high-temp electrical tape is a go-to item in my standard range bag. For example when my SMLE stock started splliting I used electrical tape under pressure to keep it together long enough to finish shooting off the rounds I was using up for brass.

Another example--I used duct tape to add a layer of finger protection on an AR carbine hand guard when it started getting too hot. I got made fun of for it, but it did keep my fingers from getting scorched.

Tape is also useful as reference marks for training.

I use Gorilla Tape for everything. It sticks to bricks, sidewalks, busted chimney flashing, etc. It'll work until you get around to a proper repair.

It might pull the finish off a gun when you remove it.

used it for a tempory measure till I got a proper one worked fine

About 20 years back, I was managing a trophy-caribou camp in Canada's Northwest Territories. The camp was a 150-mile bushplane trip from civilization, meaning whatever was done had to be done with what was on-hand.

Grizzly bears were coming into camp every night, drawn by the smell of our caribou. I NEEDED some way of seeing to shoot if necessary.

I had a pair of GENUINE M-14 rifles, and picked one to be the "night rifle". I placed a 3-cell flashlight along one side of the fore-end and duct-taped it in place. (It was actually very solid.)

I then placed a narrow strip of fluorescent-red tape on the front sight, where it was brightly-lit by by the flashlight.

With the light aligned so that the front sight appeared right in the middle of the light's "spot", very accurate shooting could be done within the range of the light...fifty yards or so.

The ammunition used was handloaded 180-grain Nosler Partitions, which (as usual) worked perfectly.

For a field-expedient set-up, I was rather pleased with how well it worked out.

Cosmoline said:

I'm not sure I understand the hatred for tape. Good high-temp electrical tape is a go-to item in my standard range bag. For example when my SMLE stock started splliting I used electrical tape under pressure to keep it together long enough to finish shooting off the rounds I was using up for brass.

Another example--I used duct tape to add a layer of finger protection on an AR carbine hand guard when it started getting too hot. I got made fun of for it, but it did keep my fingers from getting scorched.

Tape is also useful as reference marks for training.

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I said I NEVER taped ANYTHING to a firearm.

You proceeded to give examples of not taping anything to a firearm.

Did I miss something?

I'm sure I've taped a light on one at some point, too. So what? Tape is a useful piece of equipment for the gun box.

See Post #21. CoyoteSix is a pretty good fisherman.

I won't mention what he's catching.

I once saw a young police officer, fresh from the academy, attach his light to his work shotgun using tape. He said he didn't want to spend the money on a mount, and claimed it worked fine.

But, honestly, I think you'd be better off spending the $20-50 for a mount, and being happy with the setup. My work rifle has a mount for a Streamlight Strion that cost about $45 when I got it... it works great, and has been used extensively. I know there are even cheaper mounts out there, so I'm sure you can find something worthwhile.

Keep in mind that athletic tape is

1) VERY sticky, and will leave much of that adhesive when "removed" ( Athletes use pre-wrap under the tape to prevent losing skin... )

2) CLOTH which as we all know absorbs moisture..................not a good thing for a firearm...

Here's what I don't understand.

You can get one of the best light mounts in the industry for less than $40. You can pair it with a $10 flashlight or a $300 flashlight.

I just don't understand using tape when good mounts are so cheap.

http://www.mountsplus.com/AR-15_Accessories/AR-15_Scope_Rings/142-ELZ-ZSM.html

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