It’s been a long time coming, but I finally got my hands on this scope. Leapers showed me an early prototype of their INTEGRIX scopes 3 or 4 years ago at SHOT Show, but they’ve delaying production, while they worked with their Taiwan factory and their Japanese and German glass suppliers to perfect this new “Premium Grade” scope.
The iX8 LPVO that they sent me did not disappoint. Optically, it is bright, clear, and flat at 1x and holds up at 8x. It offers both green and red colored illumination that is daylight-bright. And they’re one of the first scope companies to offer Auto-Shutoff of the illumination after 12-hours.
INTEGRIX is Leaper’s top-end line, and its MSRP price starts at over $1000, so it is up there with many top-end products from other American scope brands. Given its glass performance, build quality, and features, it earns it.
Leapers Integrix is their high-end optics line which features scopes made in Taiwan using German-made Schott ED glass. In build quality and optical performance, it holds its own with some of the top scopes on the market. At SHOT Show 2026 they showed off their new fixed focus scope for Service Rifle competitions with a fixed 4.5x and designed with the input of the the top Service Rifle shooters in the country.
Enter for a chance to win an Aquilifer 6-24×50 FFP Scope. Each qualified contest entry will be included in a random drawing during my TMI Livestream show.
Entries must be received no later than 12pm noon EST on May 30, 2026.
This prize is supplied by Aquilifer and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.
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Entrants must be willing and able to appear on YouTube to discuss the contest and post images of the prize on their social feed should they win the contest.
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Aquilifier (known as the SPONSOR) and Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video Edutainment producer and game promoter based in San Francisco, CA. YouTube, TikTok, Rumble, X and online video platforms (known as PLATFORMS) are not SPONSORS or in any way affiliated with the contest or content.
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Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 1 May 2026 and 12:00pm EST 30 May 2026
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SPONSOR is not liable for the winner’s failure to receive notification of winning if he or she provided the wrong email address or if their email security settings caused your prize notification to go into the spam or junk folder. If a winner does not respond within 24hrs of sending a notification, the SPONSOR will select an alternate winner. Receipt of the prize is upon the condition of compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
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Aphids love my hibiscus flower bush. I’m loath to use chemical pesticides. I’ve sprayed it with detergent and water multiple times but every spring they come back.
Ladybugs are natural predators of aphids, and I’ve seen an occasional beetle on the bush. This year I bought a box of live ladybugs online to treat this aphid problem. The box contained a sachet of crawling, live beetles. I gently shook them over the plant though most stuck to the bag. I ended up carefully picking them out with my fingers. Some crawled onto my hands, and I placed as many directly onto more infested buds and branches.
The next day, I checked on the bush and was disappointed to find that only a small fraction of the ladybugs were around from the previous day. Some must have flown away; perhaps some were eaten by birds or predators? In any case, a few days later I could barely find one ladybug left on the bush and there were still aphids.
So the attempt seems to be a failure. Perhaps I needed to starve the beetles a few days before releasing them? Or maybe this is just to be expected?
Enter for a chance to win a Nitecore 1700 lumen EDC17 flashlight. Each qualified contest entry will be included in a random drawing during my TMI Livestream show in June.
Entries must be received no later than 12 pm noon EST on May 30, 2026.
This prize is supplied by Nitcore and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.
CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS
There are 2 ways to enter. Prove you have the skills to fill out a form and upload screenshots.
NO PURCHASE OR DONATION IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DO NOT INCREASE WITH A PURCHASE. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. Eligibility
Void where prohibited by law. Must be a legal resident in the USA. Moondog Industries employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, and employees’ immediate family members are ineligible to participate in the contest/giveaway.
Entrants must be willing and able to appear on YouTube to discuss the contest and post images of the prize on their social feed should they win the contest.
2. Sponsors and Platforms
Nitecore (known as the SPONSOR) and Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video Edutainment producer and game promoter based in San Francisco, CA. YouTube, TikTok, Rumble, X and online video platforms (known as PLATFORMS) are not SPONSORS or in any way affiliated with the contest or content.
3. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 1 May 2026 and 12:00pm EST 30 May 2026
4. Agreement to Rules
By entering the contest, participants agree to abide by the SPONSOR’s Official Rules and decisions. The SPONSOR retains the right to refuse, withdraw, or disqualify entries at their sole discretion. By submitting an entry, the participant agrees to accept the decision of the SPONSOR as final and binding.
5. How to Enter
This contest requires your skill in navigating your phone or computer controls to screen capture an image of the following YouTube channels/Social Media accounts. Subscribe or Follow and make a screen capture of those pages showing a greyed out Subscribe button or indicator that your account is Following that page. If the page is not functioning, please contact contest@moondogindustries.com . One entry per person or per Social Media account. Fraudulent methods of entry, photo retouched, or other methods of circumvention of the rules may result in the SPONSOR invalidating a participant’s entries.
6. Prizes
The winner must be able to receive the prize by e-mail or by physical mail. Prize may be substituted at the sole discretion of the SPONSOR. Acceptance of the prize grants SPONSOR permission to use the winner’s entry, name, and likeness for advertising, promotion, and trade without further compensation or remuneration unless prohibited by law.
7. Odds
The odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
8. Selection and Notification of the Winner
The winner will be chosen at random by the SPONSOR from among the entrants who demonstrated the skill to navigate the electronic entry and have met the minimum requirements. Winners will be contacted via the email used to enter the contest. Winner must have a legal address within the US to ship the prize.
SPONSOR is not liable for the winner’s failure to receive notification of winning if he or she provided the wrong email address or if their email security settings caused your prize notification to go into the spam or junk folder. If a winner does not respond within 24hrs of sending a notification, the SPONSOR will select an alternate winner. Receipt of the prize is upon the condition of compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
9. Rights Granted by the Entrant
The SPONSOR, upon submission of an entry into the giveaway or contest, has the right to use the participant’s submission, voice, likeness, image, statements about the contest, etc., for publicity, news, advertising, promotional purposes, trade, and so forth, without any further notice, review, consent, compensation, or remuneration.
Participants shall defend or settle against such claims at their sole expense, and shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the SPONSOR from any suit due to damage of or by the prize.
10. Terms & Conditions
The SPONSOR reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel, or terminate if unauthorized human intervention, a bug or virus, fraud, or other causes beyond your control impact or corrupt the security, fairness, proper conduct, or administration of the contest/giveaway.
11. Limitation of Liability
Entry into this contest constitutes the participant’s agreement to release and hold harmless the SPONSOR and PLATFORMS, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, etc., against all claims, liability, illness, injury, death, loss, etc., that occurs directly or indirectly from participation in the contest or use/misuse of the awarded prize.
12. Disputes
As a condition of participating in the promotion, the participant agrees to resolve all disputes with an arbitrator designated by the SPONSOR in the state of California, without resorting to any form of class action. Entrants waive all rights to punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, and waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
13. Privacy Policy
Participants agree to abide by all privacy and NDA laws in the State of California and any federal laws of the United State of America.
14. Winners List
Participants may request a list of winners by submitting a request in writing to Moondog Industries for up to 30 days after the contest ends.
15. Social Media Platform Rules
Winners will agree to post a photo of the prize on their social media channels in such a way as does not violate any rules of that platform. The winners also agree to appear for an interview where they will discuss the prize and its performance. If there are functional problems with the prize, the winner agrees to make a good-faith effort to resolve all issues with the SPONSOR prior to posting reviews or opinions about the prize.
16. Affirmation of Acceptance of and Agreement to All of the Official Rules
By entering the contest, the entrant has affirmatively reviewed, accepted, and agreed to all of them.
The N7 is a very compact 4K dashcam from a company with a very 80’s sounding brand name, Coolcrazy. The diashcam is very small at about 3 x 1 in diameter, yet boasts a larger display screen than some larger dashcams. The display takes up the entire back of the unit with a diagonal screen size of 3.1″
The N7 has built-in GPS tracking to help parents or employers identify when drivers exceed speed limits and logs where they traveled. It has built-in WiFi to connect to its phone App to download camera footage. It also features a parking mode when paired with a battery power connection. It comes with a car lighter to USB-C adapter.
Its recording during daylight is good and sufficiently detailed to capture license plates from cars driving in the opposite direction. Its night footage is average for a budget dashcam, unable to resolve the characters in license plates except on cars that are stopped directly in front of the camera. While disappointing, this night footage is typical of most dashcams, except for the most expensive models.
Despite its middling video capture, the N7 stands out among other budget dashcams. The N7’s compact size, suite of features, and sub $60 price make this an exceptional value.
We’re revisiting the Northern Arizona desert, with YouTuber and ammo reloading expert Viejo.
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My YouTube friends @Dayattherange and @Hazzbro1964 created a deceptively tricky .22 rimfire challenge target called Hold Em or Fold Em. https://dayattherange.com/holdem-or-foldem/5/
This timed challenge, you have 10 shots to hit 10 targets from 50 yards. Each playing-card-themed target is smaller than a postage stamp on a letter-sized sheet of paper. From 50 yards, a postage card looks like the head of a pin.
For my attempt, I was shooting a factory Ruger 10/22 takedown rifle. This can be the least accurate model of the 10/22 because the optics rail is not directly connected to the barrel. I mounted a Discovery Optics LHT 3-12×24 light-weight budget FFP scope. But even at 12x, the individual target squares were tiny, and their edges were barely perceptible.
I ran CCI Standard Velocity rounds, which this rifle shoots well, but it’s not match-grade ammo. I DQ’d almost from the start. I only managed 3 clean hits out of 10. This result will probably place me in the TRAIN WRECK division of this match.
I hope to try this again, but next time I’ll be shooting from a folding table or from the ground, prone.
Break barrel air rifles are notorious for destroying scopes. Scopes are designed to withstand the recoil of a rifle. The ignition of the cartridge propels the bullet out the barrel, with the hot gas and physics of the reaction, sending the rifle and scope back into the shooter’s shoulder.
Break barrel air rifles on the other hand, are not firearms. Instead, a compressed spring is released, pushing a piston forward into a cylinder, sending compressed air and a lead pellet to the target. The rifle and scope experience two recoil impulses one after the other in opposite directions. This back-and-forth voilence shakes scopes in directions most were never designed to move.
Discovery Optics ED line of premium budget scopes claims to be durable enough to withstand use on a break barrel. I put that claim to the test on my Benjamin Trail Nitro NP2 rifle chambered in .22 caliber.
The Olight iMini 2, a keychain flashlight that only claims to pump out 50 lumens. But this pocket-sized powerhouse illuminates like it’s compensating for something. Probably its size. It’s not because its cold, this compact flashlight makes your Chapstick look like the flashlight she told you not to worry about.
The iMini 2’s design is delightfully simple: two magnetic halves that snap together. The front half houses the LED bult, while the back half terminates in a bare USB-A jack. To activate, simply pull the two halves apart. The light stays on until you reunite the halves, in a snap.
The most surprising feature was its run time. OLight claims a one-hour runtime, but I got considerably more. After an hour, it dimmed like your enthusiasm on Monday morning, then gradually faded over two hours. By the three-hour mark, it was so faint that in daylight, I thought it had given up the ghost. But I discovered it was still on with a faint glow; maybe just 1 lumen? I left it on my desk where it ran for another 12 hours before I gave up on testing it because I had to recharge it for filming more testing the next day.
At around $20, this diminutive dynamo costs less than a movie ticket and outlasts most celebrity marriages.
