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DATR FTS Overwatch Mission

Day at the Range is a popular YouTube channel that creates uniquely designed and fun rimfire challenge targets. He shoots them on his channel and encourages other shooters to download them and share their results. This December he created a snowman themed target where we have to protect Frosty The Snowman (code name: FTS) from being melted by evil suns.

I downloaded the target and added some festive holiday colors to the otherwise black and white target. I posted my target at the prescribed 50yrds and after zeroing my scope, proceeded to shoot at each sun. I missed about half of them unfortunately. Worse yet, I hit FTS with one of the misses. I only managed a meger score of 2 points but it was a fun attempt nonetheless.

If you’re interested in the scope I was using in this video, its the new Discovery Optic LHD 8-32×56. A very high magnification scope for a very budget price. I reviewed it https://youtu.be/Jn7LcnJBsbg

You can download this target on the Day at the Range website https://dayattherange.com/fts-overwatch-mission/

Download my Christmas color target

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Discovery Optics website 10% Off code Moondog: https://www.discoveryopt.com/DISCOVERYOPT-LHD-8-32X56SFIR-FFP-Z-optics-Scopes.html

Amazon 10% discount code: Moondog832 https://amzn.to/3Ck6nu2

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SPECIAL GUEST

Ian Conolly
Unix Systems Administrator with the US Department of the Interior. SONIC my co-producer for OP: Bad Blood and line producer joining me at SHOT Show for the first time next year.

SHOT SHOW interviews planned

Athlon Optics
Aguila
Evike
Primary Arms
Sightron
Olight
Palmetto State Armory
SIG
X-Vision Optics / Thermal
Discovery Optics
Nitecore
Monstrum

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WORD(s) OF THE WEEK

Maliprop

noun: malapropism
the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco ).  Yogi Berra, regarding switch hitters, “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious”

Eggcorns and Modegreens

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Def Leapherd Pour Some Sugar on Me / Pour Some Shook Up Ramen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JEZZ1J_4N0

Pommes Frites Super Angle (french fries Super English).

French Fries aren’t French they’re Belgian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries

Sandwich American (irony) https://justinsomnia.org/2008/06/sandwich-americain/

Pommes Frites / Pulp Fiction
Belgo

What are your favorite French Fry dishes?

Moules Frites https://www.foodandwine.com/moules-frites-7104389

Beef Tallow Fries

What’s your favorite fries leftover recipe?

Loaded Fries Shepherd Pie https://cupcakesandkalechips.com/shepherds-pie-loaded-fries/

CONTESTS

CVLife EagleTalon 1-6×24 https://moondogindustries.com/december-2024-contest-cvlife/

Next Livestream Thursday December

HASHTAG DRAWING #colt

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Thomas Edwin Caldecott (July 27, 1878 – July 23, 1951) was a pharmacist[1] and politician. From 1923, Caldecott served in politics in Alameda County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1951. The Caldecott Tunnel which is a key highway link through the Berkeley Hills is named after him.

Percy Jackson book series

The Tyrant’s Tomb is an American fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It was first published on September 24, 2019, and is the fourth book in The Trials of Apollo series, the second spin-off of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

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WORD(s) OF THE WEEK

Mondegreen

A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪˌɡriːn/ ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning.[1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.[2][3] The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, recalling a childhood memory of her mother reading the Scottish ballad “The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray“, and mishearing the words “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen”.

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TOP 10 Misheard Lyrics American Songwriter.com https://americansongwriter.com/10-commonly-misheard-lyrics-that-make-us-miss-a-beat/

  1. “Suspicious Minds” – Elvis Presley
    “Were calling a trout”
  2. “Bette Davis Eyes” – Kim Carnes
    “Haul the bathtub just to please you”
  3. “Billie Jean” – Michael Jackson
    “The chair is not my son.”
  4. “Chasing Pavements” – Adele
    Should I give up / Or should I just keep chasing penguins?
    I think it would be “Payments”
  5. “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” – Eurythmics
    “Sweet dreams are made of cheese”
  6. “Bad Moon Rising” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
    “There is a bathroom on the right”
  7. “Forever in Blue Jeans” – Neil Diamond
    “Reverend Blue Jeans”
  8. “Dancing Queen” – ABBA
    “See that girl / watch her scream / kicking the dancing queen,”
  9. “We Will Rock You” – Queen
    “kickin’ your cat all over the place”
  10. “Louie Louie” – The Kingsmen

Top Misheard Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E2ZS8GpKfg&t=426s

Buzzfeeds Misheard Lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbumV5bQTuM&t=88s

Pour some Shook Up Ramen commercial (2002): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JEZZ1J_4N0

AT&T Hawaii Santa commercial (2002): https://youtu.be/rG9ARrnxoJw

CONTESTS

CVLife EagleTalon 1-6×24 https://moondogindustries.com/december-2024-contest-cvlife/

Colt tote HASHTAG DRAWING #colt

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Aura https://aura.com/moondog

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MOONDOG 2A

Athlon EP-5 7-35x https://youtu.be/UU2mFiMzIOY

MOONDOG REVIEWS

Olight Arkflex https://youtu.be/7j-qtt2__cU

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Bay Bridge drive over https://youtu.be/WHz8EDKcWK4

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Riton 3X magnifier

LIVE CONTEST

#evike

VOCAB

Tetrahedron

Also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertices. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ordinary convex polyhedra.[1]

RABBIT HOLE

PG Tips https://amzn.to/4eNVWw8

New Ashey D campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNrmakIRtjw&t=2s

Sock puppet Chimp campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7AO6DHx27c

Original PG Tips Chimp campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ywmvUS1N0

Who are the biggest tea drinkers in Europe? Tea in East Frisia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCLHO-vbNE

Cornwall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall

Food Theory Milk / Cream should be last https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR-3BMignl4

America used to drink more Green Tea before WWII (and boycotts of Japan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_tea_culture

Bobba Bubble Tea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea

3.2 Billion $ growth industry worldwide.

Origins of Bobba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xinN-8XLUJI

PRE-BLACK FRIDAY

Discovery Optics use code BLACKFRIDAY 15% off: https://www.discoveryopt.com/

Arken Use code: CYCLPOPS https://www.arkenopticsusa.com/optics/

Olight up to 50% off https://www.olightstore.com/black-friday-color-megapack-2024

NOVEMBER CONTEST

Feyachi QD TM22 vest https://moondogindustries.com/november-2024-contest/
American Hillbilly https://www.youtube.com/@HillbillyUp
Gizzard Gary https://youtube.com/@gizzardgary
Hazzbro https://www.youtube.com/@Hazzbro1964
GarageGuy https://www.youtube.com/@garageguy879
JH586 https://www.youtube.com/@jh5869
Marc Thomas https://www.youtube.com/@marcthomas2482
Pat in the Bunker https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUlwVk5R4IL9Sgy0iZk3AaQ

December CVLife EagleTalon https://moondogindustries.com/december-2024-contest-cvlife/

LIVE CONTEST DRAWING

#holosun

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Aura https://aura.com/moondog

LIVE CONTEST #nightforce

FRESH VIDS

MOONDOG 2A

• Athlon Midas LE https://youtu.be/AodLC6pNc_E

Amazon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpaoCUEhZJM

MOONDOG REVIEWS

Blackbeard Firestarter Plasma Lighter https://youtu.be/En_2QwnFbrE

Wrong. 1000º F arc temp is not as hot as the surface of the sun: 10,000º F

Temperature of the sun and 300x hotter corona: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/strong-evidence-for-coronal-heating-theory-presented-at-2015-tess-meeting/

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Twin Peaks to Outer Sunset https://youtu.be/EOXmaB834VQ

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MidTen Reflex / Ultradot Pan AV knock-off

30:00 CONTEST DRAWING #nightforce

LIVE CONTEST #admin

VOCAB

Harmonics

A harmonic is a wave or signal whose frequency is an integral (whole number) multiple of the frequency of the same reference signal or wave.

RABBIT HOLE

“Come to Daddy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ827lkktYs

Richard James aka Aphex Twin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin

Influential to Nine Inch Nails, Björk, Skrillix and Diplo

Breakbeat and Big Beat like The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim

Aphex Exciter Creative Sound Lab demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxxUwYK8npY

DeepFake (1998) before DeepFake (2017): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake

Beats Samples Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpaoCUEhZJM

Edith Pageud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjXm_RdsxdU

Rachmaninoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff

Ribbed for your pleasure: Tank Armor Simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvqiA_Cp5Cs

50:00 PRE-BLACK FRIDAY

Should I do a Black Friday shopping episode? 3pm EST / Noon PST

OLight up to 50% OFf https://www.olightstore.com/up-to-50-percent-off

Discovery Optics 15% Off using code “Black Friday” https://www.discoveryopt.com/

Mio Rear Dashcam https://amzn.to/4fBrSVV

NOVEMBER CONTEST

Live Contest #admin

Feyachi QD TM22 vest https://moondogindustries.com/november-2024-contest/

American Hillbilly https://www.youtube.com/@HillbillyUp
Gizzard Gary https://youtube.com/@gizzardgary
Hazzbro https://www.youtube.com/@Hazzbro1964
GarageGuy https://www.youtube.com/@garageguy879
JH586 https://www.youtube.com/@jh5869
Marc Thomas https://www.youtube.com/@marcthomas2482
Pat in the Bunker https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUlwVk5R4IL9Sgy0iZk3AaQ

December CVLife EagleTalon https://moondogindustries.com/december-2024-contest-cvlife/

55:00 CONTEST DRAWING #admin

Shooting Sports, Social

TMI Live 241113

FRESH VIDS

MOONDOG 2A

• CVLife EagleTalon https://youtu.be/R3B8A2axFKc

MOONDOG REVIEWS

5.11 V.XI pants https://youtu.be/1-3JlqP4JTk

Nobel Dynamite Factory https://www.glenparkhistory.org/place-the-plaque-giant-powder-compa

ICI Imperial Chemical Industries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Powder_Company

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Midtown Terrace to Downtown https://youtu.be/tQxir-pn46U

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VOCAB

11th Hour

RABBIT HOLE

Armistice Day / Memorial Day

JRROTC SFUSD: https://www.sfusd.edu/school/abraham-lincoln-high-school/faculty-depts/jrotc

DeepFake Jenny Ortega/Emma Myers https://www.youtube.com/@fake_ortega

A.I. Influencers https://www.bracai.eu/post/ai-influencer-instagram

Imma at IKEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s586r8PMlSk&t=5s

Magalu https://www.ogilvy.com/work/lu-magalu

Amazon 10% discount code: 

Moondog832 

https://amzn.to/3Ck6nu2

Discovery Optics

https://discoveryopt.com

10% Off code: Moondog

LIVE CONTEST DRAWING

#condor

NOVEMBER CONTEST

Feyachi QD TM22 vest https://moondogindustries.com/november-2024-contest/

Shooting Sports, Social

TMI Live 241106

My notes from today’s livestream

Aura Sponsorship: https://aura.com/moondog

FRESH VIDS

MOONDOG 2A

Discovery LHD https://youtu.be/Jn7LcnJBsbg

Aguila Super Extra https://youtu.be/az-Bo0axw9c

MOONDOG REVIEWS

Olight Arkfeld Ultra https://youtu.be/5Y8Wg2Fu4GE

MOONDOG GO

Independence Hall election shorts https://www.youtube.com/@moondoggo/shorts

Youth Range Safety video https://youtu.be/eolUJAlZa7c

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• CVLife EagleTalon

•5.11 X.VI pants

VOCAB

Verisimilitude

RABBIT HOLE

A.I. Generated images and DeepFakes

The Death of Proof

Soviet Photoshop https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/long-before-photoshop-the-soviets-mastered-the-art-of-erasing-people-from-photographs-and-history-too.html

Deep Fake Keanu https://www.upworthy.com/keanu-reeves-ai-account-rp

DeepFake Jenny Ortega/Emma Myers https://www.youtube.com/@fake_ortega

LIVE CONTEST DRAWING

Discovery Optics ring spin: @SMichaelDeHart

20 MOA mount
https://amzn.to/3U2OFBi
10% Off code: Moondog1021

Discovery Optics
https://discoveryopt.com
10% Off code: Moondog

NOVEMBER CONTEST

Feyachi QD TM22 vest https://moondogindustries.com/november-2024-contest/

WINNERS

Huxworks cap: American Hillbilly

Condor Tactical saddlebag: Bullets4Bucks

Shooting Sports, Social

TMI Live #241030

My notes from today’s livestream

Since 2004, the Fed Govt. declared October to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Aura Sponsorship: https://aura.com/moondog

FRESH VIDS

LIVE CONTEST: O-lloween #olight

MOONDOG 2A

Discovery Optics Rings and Mounts https://youtu.be/oojhvIJSdDs

MOONDOG GO
Election and Revolutionary History week https://www.youtube.com/@moondoggo/shorts

MOONDOG REVIEWS
OLight Arkfeld Ultra https://youtu.be/5Y8Wg2Fu4GE

Discovery Optics Costume Contest https://www.facebook.com/groups/1978152612658494/posts/2156755618131525/

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• CCI Standard vs Aguila Super Extra

• Discovery LHD

• Primary Arm SLx

LIVE CONTEST: O-lloween #olight

VOCAB

Height vs Heighth
@PeanutEOD  I liked and subscribed for the simple fact that you pronounced the word height correctly. It drives me absolutely insane when people put the “th” at the end of height. And that word gets used a lot in firearms videos.

Pre-19th century pronunciation or probably a regional dialect. Benjamin Franklin and George Washington wrote the word as “heighth” sometimes https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-height-of-mispronunciation2014or-not

RABBIT HOLE

What did the Founding Father’s sound like?
Boston Accent or Tangier Island VA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E

Pirate Accent was invented in Disney’s Treasure Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7giyx13xcM0

Disney Leprechan’s : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2EaF8n6iA

Sean Connery sings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So9yHpHOAiI

What movie Scared you?
Jaws
Phantasm
Invaders from Mars
Nightmare on Elm Street (story)

MOONDOG GO CHAT CONTEST: OLight flashlight name

NOVEMBER CONTEST

Feyachi QD TM22 vest https://moondogindustries.com/november-2024-contest/

LIVE CONTEST DRAWING ARKFLEX

#olight

Shooting Sports, Social

TMI Live 241023

My notes from today’s livestream

Aura Sponsorship: https://aura.com/moondog

Contest: #maven Sticker Package

FRESH VIDS

Evike Timelapse https://youtu.be/344UnhfX2Sc

Klarus E5 https://youtu.be/hIjoNwFPLdg

Feyachi QD PC https://youtu.be/w3Py5uilP1s
Contest early access: https://moondogindustries.com/november-2024-contest/

Maven RS4 https://youtu.be/zaA9dQsN3Qc

Contest: Discovery Optics scope rings and mounts https://youtu.be/BDYjHoSEadE

Discovery Optics: https://discoveryopt.com 
10% Off code: Moondog

20 MOA mount https://amzn.to/3U2OFBi
10% Off code: Moondog1021

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• Maven CS2A

• Primary Arm SLx

LIVE CONTEST

• #maven

VOCAB

Cheering Guide – When a KPop or JPop group puts out a video when they release a new title track, and it’s so the fans (if they want) know when and what to cheer at specific times.

Vocaloid – A singing voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project between Yamaha Corporation and the Music Technology Group in Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

RABBIT HOLE

F5ve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMa_L52z0I

Rock Horror Picture Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T3wrbOr68w&t=95s

Professor of Rock: Hall and Oats https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=N_h5UhQp4xQ

Comet A3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulBTMI9dP0I

OctoSquigglez Vocaloid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zey7jzfQcJc

Hatsune Miko

Leek Song (Finnish!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrgO_9ey53M

LIVE CONTEST

• #march

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Name spammed on YouTube

https://youtu.be/V7nBubZe_Ao

One of the first video reviews I posted when I started my channel Moondog2A (nee Moonog Industries) has been getting a lot of attention lately. This was a review of a cheap CVLife reflex sight that I posted over 3 years ago. About two weeks ago I got a strange comment posted that simply read “Triston Mountains” from @RolandaPierzchala-h3l.

I try and respond to every comment posted to my videos, at least with a thumbs up. I even respond to the negative comments when appropriate. But this one was somewhat nonsensical. I Googled “Triston Mountains” which turned out to be on an island in the middle of the South Atlantic and administered by the British Commonwealth. I asked the poster if Triston Mountains was where they lived? They didn’t answer.

But I would get one or two posts a day from other different accounts posting a comments that were simply a random place name, like Garrison Falls, Connelly Valley, or a list of random first and last names. I thought these names may be attempts to tag people but they lacked an @ symbol. These appeared to be random bot accounts simply posting random names. Why?

I asked some fellow YouTubers if they recently had similar posts on their videos and some replied, yes they were bots. We suspect they may an attempt to validate bot accounts by generating a patina of legitimacy by accumulating posts on those fake accounts (building up post counts on YouTube analytics?). Or they could be trojan posts, that are innocuous words now but will later be edited to add in phishing or spam links later. Whatever the case, they do not appear legitimate and we agreed that it would be wise to delete or hide the posts.

Unfortunately I have about a hundred such posts to now go through and manually report to YouTube and delete. The only positive news to report is that so far this spamming has only happened to one of my videos. Be careful out there. The internet is only getting less trustworthy and it’ll only get worse as automated bots and A.I. get better.