Brass Facts got something about Holosun which is making inroads in the real steel market for optics, having started as an optics maker for the airsoft market. He takes a look at the Holosun Raid flashlight, reviewed against the impressive and more affordable Holosun Iris, is a large 1,000-lumen, 880,000-candela light with a SureFire mount and included accessories like Picatinny/M-Lok mounts and a ModButton, priced at $170; however, it suffers from a bulky tape switch, proprietary threads, less refined flood with artifacts, and a counterintuitive button operation where press-and-hold is momentary and a tap is constant, with brightness stored via double tap, leading the host to favor the Inforce weapon light for its similar performance and better design despite the Raid's value proposition.