This prize supplied by ProHear 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.
2. Sponsors and Platforms
ProHear (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. 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.
4. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 26 April 2025 and 12:00pm EST 31 May 2025
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 notify 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 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.
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.
After I visited the ProHear booth at SHOT Show 2025, they reached out to offer me their EM066 electronic earmuffs to test. I received a set of earphones that looked suspiciously similar to my go-to headphones, Howard Leight Impact Sports. There has been some online speculation that ProHear makes Howard Leights or that they are both made at the same Chinese factory. But after my testing, I’m nearly certain this is not the case.
The EM066 are labeled “Machette” headphones. On first blush, they look very similar to the Howard Leights with slightly harder edges in their design. The most obvious difference is the EM066’s microphone grill covers and the vertical orientation of its volume wheel. The EM066 was designed to use Howard Leight compatible ear pads, which necessitate its nearly identical physical specs.
Like Howard Leights, the EM066 renders stereoscopic sound and a 4-hour automatic power cut-off to preserve battery life should the user forget to switch the unit off (something I’ve been guilty of with other headphones). The sound quality of ambient sounds is not identical. The EM066 renders a thinner and tinier sound environment when replicating ambient noise. The EM066 is capable of being louder than the Howard Leights.
Next, I tested the EM066 sound quality using an AUX audio cable; the music sounded slightly better than Howard Leights, though both had mediocre bass response when playing House music. A headphone’s ability to render music is a good indication of a headphone’s ability to recreate a realistic representation of the sound environment.
Testing the EM066 at the gun range, they cut out gunshots without completely cutting off voices mid-conversation like other cheap, budget headphones. I could carry on a normal conversation amidst the sound of gunfire. The EM066 padded headband and foam plastic earcups were comfortable, though I will be looking to upgrade them with gel earpads.
Overall, these headphones have all the best features of my beloved Howard Leight Impact Sports and a few subtle improvements.
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.
2. Sponsors and Platforms
Moondog Industries (known as the 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.
3. 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.
4. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 24 April 2025 and 12:00pm EST 15 May 2025
5. How to Enter
This contest requires your skill in navigating your phone or computer controls to fill out the ENTER THE CONTEST form. Optional cost-free entry method: Subscribe to the NYC Airsoft YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@newyorkcityairsoft and take a screen capture of the page showing the Subscribed button. Upload that screen capture image to the ENTER THE CONTEST form. One entry per person. Fraudulent entry methods, 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. A contestant will be selected during a Bad Blood Livestream on May 15, 2025. Winners will be contacted via the email used to enter the contest. The 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 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.
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.
Too Much Information live chat show. In this episode, we’ll be talking about VIC-20 and Amiga computers and games with Voltaric Software founder Scott Robinet.
Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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. Read my notes https://moondogindustries.com/tmi-live-250423/
EARLYBIRD Clue: This computer company’s brand name is also a naval flag rank or position: a rank between captain and a rear admiral. It is often a temporary command title, given to a captain commanding a flotilla or squadron of ships.
THIS WEEK
Moondog2A
Moondog Reviews
Moondog Go
NAME THE BRAND CLUE
This brand started as an electric typewriter company in Canada in 1958. They sold electronic calculators before creating some of the first personal computers, the PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) in 1977. In 1980 they released the most affordable PC at the time, the VIC-20.
THUMBNAIL THIS
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Amiga Computer and games
Special Guest: Scott Robinet
Scott Robinet is a software developer in Canada. He grew up in Ontario outside of Toronto where he went to college at the University of Windsor. As the VP of R&D at Network Automation, helped build and successful startup in California.
He moving back to Toronto in 2014, where he founded and currently leads Voltaric, an analytics and optimization cloud software company that focuses on the Energy industry and Energy infrastructure.
CONTESTS
EARLYBIRD Clue: This company was one of the most popular first-generation personal computer companies, along with Apple Computers, Texas Instruments TRS series, Times-Sinclair, and Atari Computers.
Plinko de Mayo
Capture your best Plinko De Mayo moments on video and share them on social media! Tag for a chance to win an exclusive Aguila swag bag valued at $500!
Too Much Information live chat show. In this episode, we’ll be chatting about Easter, the Last Supper, and the TV series “The Chosen” with @jh5869 the host of Livestream show “Georgia Shooting Connection”. top leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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. Read my notes https://moondogindustries.com/tmi-live-250416/
This brand was founded in Bethlehem Pennsylvania in 1953 and markets marshmallow confections in the shape of chicks, bunnies, and other animals.
THUMBNAIL THIS
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Special Guest: https://www.youtube.com/@jh5869 Jamie Howell aka JH586 is the host of long-running YouTube livestream show Georgia Shooting Connection, which is on Fridays.
This brand’s mash mallow confection was originally only available at Easter but is now available year-round. It is still a staple of many kid’s Easter basket.
Texas Precision Optics is now putting out their scopes under the brand name TPO, and dropping their old brand name Sniper. I welcome this change as I always found the name “Sniper” to be a bit cringy; like a knife company using the brand name “Ninja”.
I reviewed a few Sniper scopes a few years ago. They were budget-priced scopes that came with a wealth of accessories and a few compromises. They had sharp glass but with noticeable chromatic aberration. Their build quality and construction were a bit rough and unrefined. I had low expectations when they offered to send me a KT 5-40×56 to test.
The KT has TPO’s industrial aesthetic with turret’s and knobs that look like motor gears. The fit and finish was unrefined; its parallax and magnification knobs were exceptionally stiff. The turrets had quite a bit of slop between clicks and felt imprecise. Despite this, the turrets tracked and the scope held zero.
Its most positive feature was its glass, which had far less chromatic aberration than previous TPO scopes. But the scope had a very tight eyebox and was dim and low contrast at its higher magnification. The reticle is a traditional cross-hair with MIL stadia, but may be too thick for precision shooters.
The KT promises 5-40×56 performance but compromises its fit-and-finish and eyebox. But with a street price under $300, some budget-conscious shooters who need a 40x may be willing to overlook its shortcomings
Athlon Optics is known for making a wide range of high-quality scopes on par with other Leupold, Vortex, and Burris at a more reasonable price. At SHOT Show 2025 their most surprising new product wasn’t a scope or optic.
Athlon is releasing the Rangecraft Velocity Pro ballistic chronograph. Looking strikingly similar to the Garmin Xero, the differences lie in its user interface which is much easier to use and snappy. Like their scopes, the biggest advantage that Athlon delivers is price. The expected street price is about half that of the Garmin Xero.
UPDATE: Due to the Trump Administration’s Tarriffs, prices for electronics made in China went up and there were delays in shipment. The original launch date was intended for late April but the first shipments were delayed.
Athlon Optics released a slew of new products at SHOT Show 2025, but one of the most exciting is a budget-priced thermal scope, the Cronos ATS Pro 25p. This high-performance thermal scope will have a retail price of around $699 with a 1024×768 OLED HD display to provide a sharp, high contrast view with vivid color.
As Dustin said, Athlon has been offering shooters great value, and with these updates, even more so. I look forward to trying out all of these new products in the coming year.
At the Leupold booth in SHOT Show 2025 I was brought into their meeting room to see just one scope. But this scope was the Gen 2 update of their flagship VX hunting line. The VX HD Gen2 features ED glass and a newly redesigned tool-less resetable turrets. These turrets have a lever which sits flush into the circular turret, which swings out to release the turret top to reset the zero.
Staccato 2011’s are one of the hottest 1911-style pistols because they are double-stack 9mm bridging the gap between those who love the 1911 platform but want a pistol with the capacity of a modern 9mm duty pistol. At SHOT Show, they debuted their new HD P4, a compact design to be a CCW pistol.
There’s also a rumor that this new pistol would be certified to be available to civilians in California. I asked if that was true at their booth but unfortunately, it turns out to be just a rumor.
