December 2024 Contest: CVLife

The winner will receive an EagleTalon 1-6×24 LPVO fro CVLife.


Entries must be received no later than 12pm EST on December 25, 2024.


CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS

1. Subscribe to my travel channel on YouTube: Moondog Go or follow me on Twitter/X.

2. Post a reply comment in my video on YouTube or X with your last name and the words “wants to win”.

3. Take a screen shot of the page showing your FOLLOWED or SUBSCRIBED button.

BONUS ENTRY: Make a donation (any amount) to the SHC High School Choir National Youth Choir Festival fundraiser and upload a screen shot of your donation confirmation email.

4. Prove you have the skills to fill out a form and upload screen shots. 1 entry per social platform or donation (3 max).

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This prize supplied by CVLife and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.


RULES

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 legal resident in the USA. Moondog Industries employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, 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. By entering this contest you consent to allow your image and/or name to be used to promote the product or Moondog Industries.

2. Sponsors and Platforms

CVLife (known as the SPONSOR). Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video Edutainment producer and game promotor 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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By entering your 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.

4. Entry Period

Contest email entries must be received between:
12:00pm EST 1 November 2024
and
12:00pm EST 25 December 2024

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. Send a screen capture image file of any of those sites to 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.

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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 Winners entry, name, and likeness for advertising, promotion, and trade without further compensation or remuneration unless prohibited by law.

7. Odds

The odds of winning is 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 that 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 no later than December 31, 2024. 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.

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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 in the event that non-authorized 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.

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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.

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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. 

CVLife EagleTalon 1-6×24

CVLife is known for making very budget gear. Not crappy junk, but very basic budget gear. The kind of quality you expect from Bass Pro branded accessories. So usable enough for range use, weekend airsoft, or the occasional hunt. I’m not too proud to run a CVlife reflex sight on my 10/22 and a bidpod on my Savage Axis, but it’s not a brand you flex.

This new LPVO surprised me because it’s feature set is actually as good or better than the entry level LPVO’s of other brands. Certainly it’s not as sharp and clear as a Leupold or Vortex LPVO with ED glass. But the image was far more distortion free at 1x than some more premium LPVO’s I’ve tested.

The reticle design reminded me of Trijiicon or the Primary Arms ACSS. The EagleTalon has a SFP Horseshoe of Death and a small chevron (the latter was a wee bit too small IMHO). The reticle was daylight bright, though barely; but still more visible than than many LPVOs I’ve tested.

The turrets are exposed and user resettable. The clicks were a bit mushy feeling but tracked accurately. The magnification was a wee bit stiff even with the included screw-in throw lever. Most notably, the unit came pre-installed with a decent cantilever offset mount (not premo but decent enough that I wouldn’t replace it).

With this optic, CVLife has shown a step up in their quality and features. It’s good enough that I plan to run this at my next falling plates rifle match. Time will tell if CVLife can climb out of their bargain-basement perception. This LPVO with the mount is a good value, and is a good step in that direction.

BUY IT

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RESOLUTION (50yrds)

Element 5 / Group -2

SPECS

EAGLETALON
Magnification: 1-6x
Objective: 24mm
Battery: CR2032
Eye Relief: 3.78″
FOV: 19.9′ @ 100yrds
Click Adj: 1/2 MOA
Length: 10.6″
Weight: 24.3 oz

Maven CS.2A spotting scope

The CS.2A 26-66×85 is the most powerful optic in Maven’s C-line of spotting scopes and binoculars. It features Chinese ED glass and construction. But before you turn up your nose, know that there is a wide range of quality between various factories and cities in China. This scope looks every bit as well made as Maven’s Japanese built scopes, so much so that I honestly couldn’t tell the difference were it not for the MADE IN CHINA printing at the bottom of the tripod adapter foot.

The main difference between this scope and their more expensive Japanese spotters is that the C-line has ridges on its focus and power wheel, whilst the Japanese S-series spotters have a fine checkering. Otherwise, the C-line has the hallmarks of Maven’s scopes: Dark grey polymer armor on the body and smooth turning focus and power rings.

Optically the scope is sharp, bright, and with good color rendering. At maximum magnification, the image was slightly darkened but exhibited little if no chromatic aberration at long distance.

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RESOULTION

ELEMENT 1 / GROUP 1 @ 100yrds

SPECS

Magnification Range26x-66x
Obj. lens diameter85mm
Exit pupil3.3mm / 1.3mm
Field of View (FOV)2.2° / 1.1°
Apparent FOV (FOV x Power)56° / 70°
Field of view (ft/1000 yds)113ft /56ft
Brightness10.7 / 1.7
Twilight factor47 / 75
Eye relief16mm – 17mm
Near focus16ft
Dimension WxHxD15.0×4.0x6.0
Weight60.0 oz
Prisms typeSchmidt-Pechan
Coating typeFully multi-coated
Pressure tested to what pressure1m for 30min. (IPX7)
Storage temperature-40°~158°F
Frame materialMagnesium / Aluminum
Internal gas purgedNitrogen
Objective filter threadNo
Lens typeED

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FRESH VIDS

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THUMBNAIL THIS

• CVLife EagleTalon

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VOCAB

Verisimilitude

RABBIT HOLE

A.I. Generated images and DeepFakes

The Death of Proof

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NOVEMBER CONTEST

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WINNERS

Huxworks cap: American Hillbilly

Condor Tactical saddlebag: Bullets4Bucks

MAVEN CS.24

The Maven CS.2A 26-66×85 has the highest magnification and largest objective diameter among Mavens spotting scopes. The scope appears to be made or at least assembled in China unlike the Japanese S-series scopes. But don’t let Sino-Snobbery bias you, the glass and build quality is a match to Maven’s other premium optics. This scope uses the same ED quality glass Mavens other C-series scopes. Color balance, sharpness, and brightness were on par with other quality scopes in the 1K-1.5K price tier.

Its only disappointment is it’s lack of field-grade lens caps or backpack ready carrying case or skin. While many premium scope brands also eschew accessories, Maven took the time to produce a custom branded front lens cap; yet somehow didn’t design it to have a simple lanyard loop to help keep an outdoorsman from losing it in the field.

Despite this nitpick, the CS.2A’s body design is armored and ruggedized for harsher outdoor conditions. At 60oz, the CS.2A is impressively light for an 85mm spotter. This scope has the power, features, and style that a well heeled back-country hunters or birders can appreciate.

BUY IT

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RESOLUTION

Element 6 / Group 0

SPECS

CS.2A

Magnification: 26x-66x

Obj. lens: 85mm

Exit pupil: 3.3mm / 1.3mm

Field of view (ft/1000 yds) : 113ft /56ft

Twilight factor: 47 / 75

Eye relief : 16mm – 17mm

Min focus: 16ft

Dimensions: W 15″ x H 4:  x D 6″

Weight : 60.0 oz

Prisms type:Schmidt-Pechan

Gas Purge: Nitrogen

Lens type: ED

Discovery LHD 8-32×56 FFP

The Discovery LHD 8-32×56 is a surprisingly low priced 32x scope. Unlike previous long-range scopes from Discovery, my sample model did not come with scope rings. This may be a new direction from Discovery, hoping to move away from the perception that they are a “budget brand” that come with plethora of accessories. Leupold, Athlon, Vortex, Burris; none of the big name scope brands come with rings or mounts for their long range scopes.

The LHD appears made for long range Benchrest style shooting at over 2lbs (35.6 oz). It has tall, non-locking turrets which provide loud and tactile positive clicks. The elevation turret has a cog-and-tooth style zero stop which is solid and repeatable. In my range testing, the turret tracked precisely to my MIL grid target at 100yrds.

The magnification ring was stiff but thankfully it comes with metal throw lever, which it needs. The LHD uses relatively sharp HD glass which exhibits typical amounts of chromatic aberration (CA). This CA reduces contrast and sharpness at its highest magnification, which takes away from what on paper should be an impressive 32x.

The LHD has a FFP Christmas Tree reticle that is mostly skeletonized and thin to optimize visibility at higher magnification and longer distance objects. The illumination lights up the center 1/4 of of the cross hairs and is low-light/twilight bright. Helpful for black bullseye targets or shooting in early dawn or dusk but not “daylight bright”.

A disappointment in this scope for me is its tight eyebox. Most high magnification factor scopes suffer from this. Even at it widest setting of 8x the scope has an unforgiving eyebox that only gets tighter that higher you crank the magnification. For a Benchrest or F/class shooter this isn’t as much of an issue but would be very frustrating to a hunter and competing in PRS/NRL matches.

Overall performance and build quality reminds me a lot of the Arken SH4. The LHD offers similar performance at higher magnification for just under $250. While this scope won’t compete with premium +30x scopes like the Athlon Ares or Vortex Golden Eagle, the LHD outperforms anything close to its price class.

BUY IT

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RESOLUTION

Element 6 / Group -1

SPECS

LHD SFIR

Magnification: 8-32x

Objective: 56mm

Tube: 34mm

FOV: 3.8 ft @ 100 yrds

Eye Relief: 3.5 in / 90mm

Min Focus: 25 yrds

Max Elev Adj: 36 MRAD

Max Wind Adj: 16 MRAD

Glass: HD

Coating: Fully Multi-Coated

Reticle Illumination: Yes

Battery: CR2032

Waterproof 

Length: 14.9″

Weight: 35.6 oz