Good summary above.
Though I don't own one, it's obvious the O.W.L. is a superbly designed and constructed light, but unless you need a high-powered WML for every day use, it's a lot of weight to be living at the end of the rail.
At a weight of exactly 3.2 ounces, you can get set up with a Malkoff head on an Arisaka 300 clone body that will produce 750 lumens/20,000 lux on a single IMR 16340 cell;
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The other route one can go - and the one I personally prefer - is to use something like a Malkoff Hound Dog 18650 hand-held (1,000 lumens/29,000 lux) with a QD mount. I like the ability to quickly mount/dismount the light, attaching it only when needed and detaching when I want to use the light hand held.
I store the rifle with the light attached. When pulled out of the safe for use, I detach the light if it's not going to be needed (range session, daytime match, etc.), which for me is 99% of the time. It takes about five seconds to detach, maybe ten to attach. Of course, as with all Malkoff products, the light is superbly constructed and is a very capable hand-held light that fits in a coat pocket or a kydex holster;
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Here is a reasonably accurate size comparison to the O.W.L. (both weigh 11.2 ounces);
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I'm looking at upgrading to a Malkoff Hound Dog Super head (1,700 lumens/75,000 lux) and running it on the same body with a pair of IMR 18350 1200 mAh cells that will provide about 20 minutes of full output runtime and about 5 hours of runtime on low (a very useable 80 lumens).
I like my carbine slim 'n trim, the less "stuff" attached to it the better. The ability to easily & quickly attach a powerful light only when needed has a lot of appeal to me.
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