Shooting sticks are lightweight shooting aids popular with Western hunters. CVLife has released its version that adds a mini-tripod base that screws into the stick like a spike or foot.
This tripod hybrid stick is similar to the selfie sticks used by content creators and allows the shooting stick to stand upright on its own. The shooting stick and base only weigh about 2.5 lbs, making it a viable back-country hunting tool.
Perun (pronounced pay-roon) is the God of thunder, lightning and storms in Slavic mythology. Like the Norse god Thor, but OLight probably didn’t want to use that name and fight Marvel/Disney for trademark infringement. The Perun 3 is the latest iteration of the Perun headlamp/right angle utility flashlight. It is a tube-style flashlight with a fixed 90º bend at the bell, and a detachable metal belt clip. It can be snapped onto the included headband turning it into a bright headlamp. It can tail-stand and has a magnetic base.
Power comes from a proprietary 5,000 mAh 21700 cell. Magnetic charging via OLights MCC3 puck-to-USB cable. Battery capacity is displayed as a color LED above the activation button. Unfortunately, OLight discontinued the smaller Perun 1 which used the more common 18650 cell.
The larger 21700 cell allows the Perun 3 longer battery life and output. 3000 lumens of turbo lasts roughly two minutes before stepping down to a still-useful 800 lumens for a few hours, then 600 lumens for a handful of minutes. Real-world testing puts output higher than 3000 lumens but a runtime shorter than 3 hours. The beam is a soft, usable flood with a broad hotspot—great for close work on low but less ideal if you’re trying to ID a coyote at 300 yards.
The unit has and old-school multi-tap control using a single button at the top of the unit. Tapping the button turns the unit on to the last brightness mode. Holding the button down activates moonlight brightness mode (5 lumens). Double tapping while off activates a red light mode. Double tapping while white mode is on, activates Turbo (3000 lumens) Tripple tapping activates an S-O-S signal mode on high. Pressing the button while on, cycles through the brightness setting: low-medium-high.
An unusual feature is a proximity sensor which steps down or deactivates the light if the flashlight face is too close to an object when in high or turbo mode. This will help prevent melting a hole into a tent or burning your pocket. It can be manually deactivated.
It’s not perfect. Proprietary battery means you’re locked into a whole new battery ecosystem. The single button makes changing modes somewhat tedius and requires some memorization. But if you’re looking for a tank of a headlamp that’s got OLights warranty protection, it or it’s smaller brother the Perun 3 mini a good option.
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Olight Perun 3
Draconia Malfoy is so adorable; guys are starting to yearn for her. You can now try to date her. This Livestream is sponsored by Aura.com. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
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Today we recognize our Veterans. Everybody who’s served in the military: we salute you. For those currently serving, “embrace the suck” until you get that DD214.
Malfoid is the name for this Harry Potter fanfic phenomenon that’s taken over the internet, or at least a big chunk of the trad Potterverse. A meme of a female reimagining of Draco Malfoy as Draconia Malfoy.
It’s been 2 months, and this meme hasn’t stopped. It’s gained traction and inspired fanfic stories. And it’s spawned manga/cartoons, anime, and AI actor shorts. Some I’ve shared with you already.
Schmede AI
It’s evolved beyond the novels.
Harry gets Draconia pregnant by @Psyern
The virtual actress behind the scenes by @nextrelmstudios
Malfoid aka Winter explains Soviet attack aircraft? @VisionsofPastandFuture
Other Notable Variations
@zeyhashimoto https://www.youtube.com/@zeyhashimoto
AdayASMR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB1ECdunJnI
SpaceCafe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDF7cNn1hg
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This video game company has created iconic characters and series, including the Mario brothers, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokemon.
Dating Simulations or Dating Sims are a subgenre of adventure video games that originated in Japan in the 1980’s. Dating Sims evolved from text-based adventure games like Zork and choose-your-own adventure books.
The first commercially available Dating Sim game was Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School (1987) released for the Nintendo Famicom Disk system where the player tries to wooo a J-Pop Idol.
Dating Sims blew up in the 90’s PC era with multiple-choice dating sims for both male and female protagonists. It’s influenced aspects of American RPG games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
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Founded on September 23, 1889, in Kyoto, Japan, by Fusajiro Yamauchi as a manufacturer of playing cards. Its first video game was Donkey Kong.
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A proper cast-iron front rifle rest usually starts around $150 and climbs into the high hundreds once the Bench Rest crowd gets involved. So when ATFLBox offered a cast-iron shooting rest with micro-adjustable feet and spikes, plus two sandbags, for under $70, it smelled faintly of “too good to be true.” Sometimes the universe just hands you a free win.
The rest itself looks like it escaped from a Christmas tree stand. The edges have that classic cast-iron roughness—texture you can feel with your eyes closed—but the whole thing still feels solid enough. In the box you get a horn-style rear sandbag and a front bag, both already stuffed with fine gravel.
At the range it behaved exactly like something that costs three times as much. Rock solid. I even loaned it to a first-time shooter. The rest kept my rifle steady enough that every one of her shots stayed on paper at 100 yards.
Here’s the thing nobody wants to admit: the engineering behind these rests isn’t exactly rocket science. So it shouldn’t shock anyone that a company without Caldwell’s brand name or marketing budget can still ship something cheap that actually works.
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ATFLBOX REST
Base Material: Cast Iron
Bags: Pre-Filled
Bag Material: 900D denier polyester
Height: 4.5″-8.5″
Width: 10″
Weight: 8.93 lbs
The PL X marks a leap in OLights’ rechargeable pistol lights. The PL X has a similar 1200 lumen light output as my OLight Valkrie PL-2, while physically 1/3 shorter. On the left side of the body is a physical switch to change from a wide flood beam or a spot beam with a maximum throw of 300 yards.
The PL X has contoured buttons that allow you to push forward or push downward to activate the beam. The PL X has OLight’s familiar controls able to switch between low-high brightness modes with a double-tap, and strobe by pressing both buttons simultaneously.
Thankfully, this OLight now recharges with a universal standard USB-C port. Remarkably, the unit is IPX 7 rated and able to be submerged in water for up to 30 minutes. I don’t claim that any OLIGHT is as durable or as reliable as military-tested weaponlights, but OLIGHT offers a lifetime warranty with good customer service.
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Max Lumens: 1200 (Flood mode)
Max Run Time: 120 min
Maximum Throw: 300 yards (Spot mode)
Battery type: 960 mAh
Charging type: USB-C
Dimensions: 63 x 30 x 31.5 mm (2.48 in x 1.18 in x 1.24 in)
Weight w/battery: 3.07 oz / 87 g
Track compatibility: Glock, 1913
IPX: 7 waterproof
DiscoveryOpt makes high-quality scopes at a value price. The same qualities apply to their $45 scope mounts. The DGCM3 is their new upgraded model of light-weight, heavy-duty mount in either 30mm or 34mm diameter.
It incorporates a 20 MOA cant for long-range shooting, providing 20 MOA of added elevation adjustment to any scope mounted on it. This new model has 6 screws per ring versus 4 screws in the smaller DGCM2 mount.
Amazon https://link.amazon/B07oVEZOm
DGCM3
Scope Tube: 30 mm/34 mm
Rail Type: Picatinny (1913)
Concentricity: ≤0.01 mm
MOA Cant: 20
Shock Resistance: ≥1000 G
Screws Per Ring: 6
Body Material: 6061-T6
Finish: Hard Anodized
Process: CNC One-piece
Height: 1.5″
Weight: 6.3 oz
GPO won the NRA Gold award for their new mid-range Centrui scope line which is one of the most feature packed optics in its class. GPO, USA is an American based company that creates and sells premium outdoor sporting optics. Based in Virginia, it is started by Michael Jensen who worked with Zeiss, Swarovski, Remington and Marlin. He utilized German based engineers to create premium optics and sell them direct-to-consumer to keep the price lower than comparable brands.
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A few weeks ago when we were discussing Malfoid and AI-created content, show fan Pic suggested I check out the Higgsfield AI Film Festival
Higgsfield AI Film Festival is a worldwide short-film competition hosted by the AI video platform Higgsfield AI, centered on films created entirely using artificial intelligence.
Higgsfield.ai is an AI-native generative media and video creation platform
AI Video Creator Platforms
Grok Image
Google Veo
Runway
Open AI Sora
Earlier this week they announced the 2026 Winners
HIGGSFIELD FILM FESTIVAL
https://higgsfield.ai/contests/higgsfield-global-film-festival
Varmints
https://higgsfield.ai/@outrealproduction/projects/varmints-las-bodas-del-rio?from=%2Fcontests%2Fhiggsfield-global-film-festival
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This is the most dominant US software company in the creative field with software used in graphic design, photography, 3D animation and video production such as Acrobat, Premier, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Higgsfield AI
Alternative Casting Choices
@Animeta Ai Media
Live Action 70’s Superfriends
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@StryderHD
What if Avengers was made in the 1980’s
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Bad human-made SFX
Star Wars
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Scorpion King
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Bonus Material
Actors who were considered for the role of Han Solo
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This creative software compay was founded in 1982. One of it’s most popular programs, Photoshop is so dominant in photography that the name now used as adjective for enhancing, retouching, and faking images to make them better than reality.
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I’ve ridden the TGV between Laussane and Paris. I rode the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto. I love high-speed rail.
In 2008, California voters approved a $33–45 billion bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020. Fast-forward eighteen years: Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and other politicians have done Photo Opps with laying fake train tracks and standing in front of banners claiming progress.
The only thing traveling at high speed is the cost estimate—now a cool $126–231 billion. Actual track laid that can carry a paying passenger? Zero. Not one mile. Not one foot.
Keep that in mind as you head to the voting booth this November. Whether you want to believe you’re “fighting the Trump Agenda” or making America Great Again, if you vote for more spending and vote for incumbent politicians in California, you’re voting for more red tape and wasted money. Good luck.
Learn more https://www.reformcalifornia.org/
They call it The Works. The name is not subtle, and neither are its contents. Most folks have a range bag and a tool kit. But almost nobody has a tool kit inside their range bag, so Fix It Sticks changed that.
Fix It Sticks started in the cycling world and somehow ended up in the hands of people who shoot for a living. That pedigree shows. The tools are small, the case is smaller, and the coverage is wider than the bulk of what most of us currently drag around. It will not replace a full gunsmith bench, but it will make the average range-day malfunction or optic tweak far less of a scavenger hunt.
The Works pouch is about the size of a budget first aid kit. Inside this unassuming black pouch is a T-handle, a full set of 24 electroless-nickel bits (hex, Torx, Phillips, slotted—the usual suspects that actually appear on firearms), AR-specific bits including a castle-nut wrench and BCG scraper, a 1911 bushing tool, a Glock front-sight tool, a universal choke-tube wrench that covers most shotgun tubes from .410 to 10-gauge, pin punches (metal and plastic), scrapers, a mini pry bar, brass cleaning rods, and a magnetic patch that keeps the tiny screws from disappearing.
The practical result is that this one kit covers ARs, pistols, shotguns, optics, and most of the accessories you actually touch at the range or in the field. No more digging through three different pouches while everyone else is already shooting.
The Works is not a budget toolkit at over $200. But ff your current toolkit is mostly dead weight and good intentions at the range, The Works is the right Tool (kit) for the right job.
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T-Handle Wrench
1/2″ Socket and Bit Adapter
Universal Choke Tube Wrench
1911 Bushing Tool
Glock Front Sight Tool
Mini Pry-Bar
Bolt Carrier Group Scraper
Bronze Scraper
Steel Pick
Metal Pin Punch, Plastic Pin Punch
AR Castle Nut Wrench
A2 Front Sight Adjustment Bit
2x Brass Cleaning Rods
Cleaning Brush Bit
1/4″ Bits: 2.5mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm
1/4″ Bits: 050″, 5/64″, 3/32″, 1/8″, 7/64″, 9/64″, 5/32″, 3/16″, 1/4″
1/4″ Bits: T8, T10, T15, T20, T25, T27, T30, P1, P2, Slotted 3/16″, 3/32″
Magnetic Patch
