Yea... We may have different criteria, but I had the same feelings when I was looking.
I classed cans into a couple categories:
Low end or unknown small mfg:
Liberty
YHM
Thunderbeast
Shark
Mid-range:
SAS
Gemtech
High end:
AAC
Surefire
KAC
SWR
Silencerco
Then eliminated anything that I wasn't sure would be around in 5 years. Anything that wasn't didn't have a good mount. And anything that I didn't feel had a price/performance ratio.
I ended up with Surefire and SWR. AAC has already shown they too are not pleased with their own mount. KAC meets no price/performance ratio. And I didn't want a thread on or wait on more vaporware cans.
I chose the surefire socom and having played with them I'm VERY glad I ponied up. These will be lifetime cans for me, I didn't want to **** around with some non-sense that would soon work it's way to the back of the safe.

