Quoted: Duke, what are the specs on the lights on those pistols?
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Ok, the one on the wife's 9mm pistol is the HK UTL light. This is the light that started the whole tactical light on a pistol craze when the USP was first introduced. Its rated at 90 lumens. Costs around $200 new, I found one used for $150 from a friend. Attaches to the USP series with no adapter. Has "momentary" and "constant on" settings. I've found it handy to train using the "constant on" setting and just flipping it on and off. If you try to use the momentary and have to shoot, your grip will be less than ideal and the recoil will probably take your hand off the switch, turning your light off when you need to be using it to aim your next shot!
www.bowerstactical.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?pid=5438&cart_id=8302410.14219&ppi=PIDThe one on my Tactical is a Surefire "Nitrolon" that I got for $125 used from a seller on HKPRO.com. Its also around $200 new. There is no "momentary" feature, the light is either on or off. It uses the standard picatinny rail system made popular by Glock and shared by many other platforms. I have a streamlight mount on my Beretta Elite II that it fits nicely on (looks badass too!) and it will fit on any picatinny/1913 rail you might have handy on a rifle, such as a RIS or SIR system on an AR15. It just slides right on. It needs a somewhat clunky adapter to fit on the USP, fortunately the seller had mounted his on a USP45 as well. It is rated at only 65 lumens, but for $25 you can buy a super-bright 120 lumen lightbulb for it. The 120 lumen lightbulb has a service life of only 20 minutes! In my experience 65 lumens is more than enough to temporarily blind an opponent even when there is ambient light present. Keeping the batteries fresh is important. Yes I've had the wife test it on me (not attached to the gun!) at various ranges and lighting conditions, and it will make you see spots big time!
www.surefire.com/maxexp/main/co_disp/displ/carfnbr/114/prrfnbr/456EDIT: RiffRandall--
Max Payne always uses dual Berettas. Anyway, shooting duals with different calibers really screws up whatever point-shooting aiming skill I actually have left. Insert gratuitous nerdy pic HERE: