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.
Watch the prize drawing on my TMI LIvestream on Wednesday, December 2, 2026. Must be present to win.
Each prize is supplied by OLight, Nitecore, CVLife, and Vector Optics is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.Entries must be received no later than 12pm noon EST on November 30, 2026.
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Nightforce is the optic brand most associated with US snipers in the GWOT. They are known for their high light transmission, clarity, and reliability in combat conditions. This level of durability starts at the factory where they conduct random impact testing on their products. This impact testing was demonstrated live at SHOT Show at their booth.
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Candy Corn you either love it or hate it. And only black licorice is more hated.
Do you like Candy Corn? Who in your family and friends likes Candy Corn?
Candy corn was originally invented in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia.
The candy was later sold to the Goelitz Candy Company (now named Jelly Belly) who first sold it as “Chicken Feed” candy. The candy is colored and shaped like dried corn used as livestock feed, which was more familiar to farming families in the 19th century. And was originally enjoyed year-round.
It is made of sugar, corn syrup, wax and flavored with vanila. It is made from 3 different colored liquid batches, each poured as a layer into a candy mould to achieve the shape. The candy recipe has remained unchanged for over 100 years
35 million pounds (about 9 billion individual kernels) are produced every year. Most of that 35M is sold and distributed in one month: October.
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EARLYBIRD Visual Clue: Name the brand that produces the most candy corn in the US.
Candy corn doesn’t taste like corn, and there is no corn-flavoring in its recipe.
The Jelly Belly company that invented Candy Corn sells a Jelly Belly jellybean that’s Buttered Popcorn flavored which is one of its popular flavors.
Candy Corn Hacks
Candy Corn + roasted peanuts tastes like a PayDay bar
Combine 1 cup of Candy Corn with a bottle of whiskey and steep it for 3 days and it tastes like an Old Fashioned cocktail. You can do this with Vodka and Rum.
This US brand is one of the big US candy makers known for years for selling candy by weight at grocery stores at Pick-A-Mix bins.
NOVEMBER CONTEST 4 PRIZES
Everybody who enters this month’s contest gets a slot on the Wheel. To qualify, you have to be a subscriber to my travel channel https://www.youtube.com/@moondoggo
• The, watch my Martin Guitar Factory museum tour and find the moment in the video where Elvis’ guitar cover appears on screen
• Leave a comment on the video, and take a screenshot of that shows your comment and the Elvis guitar cover in the same image.
This candy brand started as a family-owned candy shop in Chicago in 1904. It is known for its caramel squares, and many of us have choked on their butterscotch or peppermint hard candies.
DiscoveryOpt updated its HD with the new Gen3 5-30×56. It adds a tool-less, resettable turret and zero stop. It keeps its multi-coated HD glass and 56 mm objective. 34 mm tube, FFP reticle, and most appreciated, it retains its mid $300 price-point.,
The standout feature is the fully tool-less turret and zero stop. No Allen keys required to reset to your established zero after dialing for long shots. Under the turret, a brass clamp with a quick-release lever sets your zero stop. Easy peasy.
The Gen3 continues Discovery’s incremental improvement to the glass quality. Its clarity is good but with a warm cast and not quite the quality of its more expensive big-brother the ED Gen3. But the HD Gen3 is certainly impressive compared to entry-level offerings from Vortex or Burris at twice the price.
If you’re building a long-range hunting or range rifle and don’t want to spend four figures on glass (or even $700), the HD Gen3 5-30×56 is worth a look.
The S1 QHD offers all of the features of the S1 4K but in 2K resolution, and in a more affordable package. Part of the reason for its superior footage is that the S1 comes with a Circular Polarizing Filter (CPL) which can reduce glare and reflections in the windscreen and improve readability and contrast. In addition, the S1’s native incorporates image processing enhacement techology that improves the resultion of license plate numbers and letter.
Unfortunately the defualt image and resolution settings don’t use the enhanced license plate setting. You have to manually reconfigure the camera to 30fps HDR + Infinite Plate Capture. This setting produces enhanced readability of characters in license plates, especially at night.
There were two minor issues that I experienced with the S1. When starting the unit for the first time, the S1 takes some time to configure. But after this long configuration, subsquent activations are much faster to boot.
The S1 also offers GPS and speed logging, WiFi connectivity to a downloadable phone App to copy files and modify menu settings. When upgraded with the Vueroid OBD power adapter or using the included direct wiring kit to you car’s batter, the Vuerod is able to record while the engine is off and parked.
The S1 QHD is a little cheaper than the S1 4K but neither is cheap. But neither feels like the cheap plastic dashcams I have tested in the past. The S1’s preimum price is worth the premium quality footage.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in 2021 with a Hayao Miyazaki retrospective. Four and a half years later, they exhibited Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo.
Ponyo (2008) is Miyazaki’s reinterpretation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. A tale of a magical goldfish princess named Ponyo and up, a five-year-old boy named Sōsuke.
The movie is almost entirely hand-drawn. Studio Ghibli donated more than 100 pieces to the Academy Collection: art boards, Japanese release posters, key animation drawings, Miyazaki’s own sketches, and an actual Ghibli animation desk.
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The word Whiskey comes from the Irish and Scottish Gaelic uisce beatha or uisge beatha (wiskuh bAha), a translation of the Latin term aqua vitae, “water of life”.
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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
What’s the difference between Whisky, Whiskey, or Bourbon?
Whisky is a distilled spirit made from a grain, traditionally malted barley, or other grains depending on the country. That spirit is flavorless and colorless until it is aged in wooden barrels.
Unaged whiskey is called moonshine in the US or poitin in Ireland.
Scotland, England, and most other countries spell it Whisky. Ireland and America spell it Whiskey, adding an ‘E’ to differentiate it from Scotch Whisky.
Scotch-Irish colonists brought whiskey to America in the 1600s, where a scarcity and price of barley led them to use corn and rye as the primary grain. Barley does not grow well in warm, humid climates. Corn is what differentiates Bourbon from other American Whiskeys.
There’s some debate as to whether the name Bourbon comes from Bourbon County, KY or the county got is name from the prevalence of distilleries.
Or the name may have come from Bourbon street district of New Orleans where Kentucky whiskey was loaded from Mississippi barges to ships bound for Northern cities and international export. Bourbon is the family name of the royal family of the Kingdom of France.
American Bourbon was legally defined by Congress in 1964 as an American whiskey (not just those in Kentucky) that is made using at least 51% corn as its primary grain. And it must be aged in newly charred oak barrels. And it can not contain added flavoring or coloring.
Popular American Bourbons and Whiskeys
Buffalo Trace (oldest) Maker’s Mark (2nd oldest) Jack Daniel’s Jim Beam Evan Williams Wild Turkey
BRAND CONTEST CLUE
This American brand is the oldest registered distillery in the United States, founded in 1866 in Lynchburg, Tennessee. It is technically a Bourbon but instead calls itself a Tennessee Whiskey to differentiate it from more numerous Kentucky distilleries.
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This brand is the most popular and best-known American spirit worldwide. A bottle of it was burried with Frank Sinatra. And its the legendary liquid fuel for rock, drunk by the Rolling Stones, Motley Crüe, and what Ella Langley drinks in her eponymous song (shown in the thumbnail).
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When it comes to $150 budget optics, I’ve learned to temper my expectations. So when the TechHunters 3-12×44 medium power variable optic (MPVO) showed up on my doorstep, I was surprised. The scope feels surprisingly solid and its externals look well made.
It is a budget MPVO so it does have a tight eyebox, and at low power the view exhibits notable pincushion distortion. Chromatic aberration is present but actually less than entry-level offerings from big-name brands. Overall clarity and edge-to-edge sharpness were surprisingly good for a budget scope.
Brightness is adequate for dawn and dusk shooting, though the 44mm objective obviously limits light-gathering compared to a 50mm 18x bell. Color rendition is good for a non—ED glass scope.
Techhunters opted for a first focal plane (FFP) MIL reticle with a horseshoe center and floating dot. It features a minimal tree with wind hold-over dots. The entire high-power reticle is illuminated . The downside? The stadia around the horseshoe make for a blurry aimpoint at 3x. This is my only hesitation to considering this MPVO a cross-over scope for hunting.
This MPVO has the versatility to be considered a The 3-12x range bridges the gap between close-range hunting and mid-distance target work. At 3x, it’s fast enough for woods hunting; at 12x, it gives you enough magnification to identify targets and make ethical shots out to reasonable distances. It’s not an ELR optic, and it’s not pretending to be.
Is it perfect? No. The illumination makes the aimpoint blurry, the turrets could be crisper, and the eyebox is unforgiving. But the Z4 is about the price of a Vortex Crossfire 3-12×44 while offering a FFP reticle and features of the more expensive Diamondback.
OLight took their already-overachieving OClip 2 Ultra, slapped “Premiem” on an already long list of adjectives in its name. The Ultra 2 introduces a wealth of new features, in addition to its 580-lumen flood / 450-lumen spot, and new dual red/UV beam emitter.
It has a 360° rotating clip with detents, allowing you more flexibility in where you clip it. The head tilts to 115°, allowing you more flexibility and control of the direction of the beams. Clip it to a hat brim, pocket, pack strap, or steel surface and actually point the light where you need it instead of illuminating your shoes and half your face. You have 3 new ways to charge the unit: a USB-C port under an IPX6 hatch on the side, and a magnetic charging circle compatible with OLight flashlights.
The Premium adds a snap-on charging base to the Ultra 2 package. This charging base has its own USB-C port but also functions as a stand-alone power bank, effectively doubling the OCLip Ultra 2’s runtime.
OLight’s Ultra model flashlights are made with OAL aluminum alloy, which OLight claims to be nearly twice as hard as 6061. And their Ultra also features the highest battery capacity of their respective models (at least until they make another leap in technology and I guess they start adding numbers).
If you liked the original OLight but wished it allowed a little more control over the direction of the beam, the Ultra 2 is a welcome upgrade.
