Viridian X5L Gen 3 - SPONSORED

I've just gotten my hands on a Viridian Weapons Technologies X5L Gen-3 and I'm pretty excited about it. It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since this product first hit the market. With its ECR instant-on technology and its super visible five milli watt green laser. This particular one is really a great evolution over the older X5L's. Now I've used X5L's on rifles and on pistols for a long time.

I found it to be great, durable, reliable, really bright, and exactly the kind of light that I want to use on my home defense guns or when I am carrying a firearm that has a weapon-mounted light for concealed carry personal defense. I also know a lot of other instructors and of course countless students who have had success with the Viridian Weapons Technologies brand. They're going to be excited about this evolution too. The unit is designed to work efficiently with virtually any full-sized handgun that's rail equipped and the new design will work with any holster that's equipped to fit a Streamlight TLR-1, which of course means there's a lot of holster options out there now for your Viridian Technology equip defensive handgun. The new X5L has a rechargeable, removable battery.

You can charge it through the USB port or you can remove it and put it into a separate charger. This battery has seven hours of life, and of course it controls the light and the laser. Now this unit is user programmable as a light or laser, of course with both on, and there's several different modes of operation. There's the solid light and solid laser. There's a strobing light with a solid laser.

You can have a strobing laser only. You can have the strobing laser with the solid light. You can have just the light, or you can have just the laser. The versatility of the design of course is enhanced by the fact that it has instant-on technology. The Easy R technology from Viridian is unique and it relies on a magnet system that is embedded into your holster to be able to turn this off when you're in the holster and instantly allow it on without any extra action, other than pulling it out of that holster.

Now, of course, you can manually turn the device off and on as well, and as I mentioned earlier, even though this device is primarily designed for use on hand guns, I found great success using it on the rails of defensive rifles as well. The Viridian Gen-3 X5L. This is definitely a device you want to consider if you're looking for the added versatility of a laser aiming device and of course the usefulness of that 500 lumen LED light.