EOTech Integrated Fore-end Light 250
Rob PincusDescription
Rob Pincus discusses the Integrated Fore-end LED light with EOTech’s Amy Miller at the NRA’s 2013 Annual Meetings and Exhibits.
We are here in the EOTech Booth talking about home defense shotguns, and we're looking at a prototype of what is one of the newest coolest things from EOtech. This is an illuminated four end. It's here on this Mossberg shotgun, which would be a great choice for home defense. Amy, why are we so excited about this? Well, this four end is great because everything on this four end is completely integrated. Okay. Okay, there's no exterior features. Once the four end is turned on, then you have full access to a 250 lumen light. The illumination is all happens through this pressure pad situation. These are ambidextrous pressure pads, so regardless of if you have left or right-handed shooters. Right. Everybody's gonna be able to operate at this level. It also has a 10 lumen dim mode. Okay. So from a home defense situation, a lot of times you might need to be navigating through an area. Sure. You don't necessarily wanna give away your position. Right. But you do wanna be safe. So this is ideal for that situation, you just flip it over into dim mode, you can navigate through your surroundings without giving away your location. All right, so I'm going to flip over into product placement mode because we'd like to keep the muzzle low when we're moving through the house, but I want you to get a good look at this and see how this works. These pressure pads are really big, they're really easy to operate either with the thumb or with the fingers. And obviously then it's gonna be ambidextrous on either side. And this switch is also pretty easy to use. So when I first saw this, I said, okay, well how do I change dim that bright, but very, very quickly. I was able to, easy to go from dim to bright. And what's cool about this is when it's off and you just hit it and turn it all the way to on that's when you're going to get your bright lights. So that's one of those intuitive things we look for in efficient use of a defensive tool. And obviously that's what this is designed to be. Exactly. Amy, thank you very much. And keep watching Personal Defense Network for more from the NRA annual meeting in 2013 in Houston, Texas.
I have one of these EOTech IFLs installed on my defensive Remington 870. On mine, the light is not that bright, but more than adequate for interior spaces--my primary concern. Mine has an on/off switch right by the thumb. The settings are momentary on/off, sustained on, and a strobe light feature (which is unnecessary in my case). There is a finger stop a bit like the Remington Modular shotguns, so it would be a great fit with a SBS set up on an 870. It can "bite" during sustained firing, but that is a trade off that can be worked around with proper technique. Mine has no "dimmer" to speak of, which doesn't bother me, frankly. I find it a good tool that offers a relatively snag free approach to my defensive shotgun, which is what I was looking for in a weapon-mounted light.
Looking for a home defensive shotgun. Definitely like this one with integrated light.