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CONTEST MAR: CVLife LPVO

Win your choice of an LPVO from a selection of scopes provided by CVLife.

Entries must be received no later than noon 12pm EST on March 31, 2026. This prize is supplied by CVLife and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.

CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS

Prove you have the skills to follow instructions and upload screenshots correctly. There are up to two ways to enter:

A. Watch my Sac Valley Range video. LIKE the video and comment, “I’m going to win the CVLife contest!”,
then UPLOAD a screenshot of your post.

SUBMIT COMMENT SCREENSHOT

B. Subscribe to @MoondogGo on YouTube and UPLOAD a screenshot of “Target #12” from my Sac Valley Range video; and be sure it also shows the BELL button.

SUBMIT YouTube SCREENSHOT

Example:

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 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

CVLife (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 Mar 2026
and
12:00pm EST 31 Mar 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. 

Product Reviews, Shooting Sports

5.11 Tactical LVC12 Backpack

At SHOT Show 2026 my friends at 5.11 Tactical showed off their newest backpack, the LVC12. LV stands for “Low Visibility,” and the 12 stands for 12-hour use. This backpack looks like a generic consumer backpack, hiding its tactical roots and features.

This backpack offers an ambidextrous pass-through CCW chamber with a strap, and hook-and-loop panels. Behind its generous 270º zippered main chamber, is a padded pocket that can fit 16″ laptop or a large SAPI plate.

SHOP

https://tidd.ly/3OcKTF8

SPECS

LVC12
Dimensions: 19″ H x 11″ W x 7.5″ D
Capacity: 21 Liters (1,281 cubic inches)
Weight: 2.84 lbs (1.29 kg)
Material: 100% Nylon (840D)

MAIN FEATURES

  • Ambidextrous CCW Compartment
  • 270° zippered opening main compartment
  • Armor Compatibility: Large SAPI plate
Shooting Sports

TMI 260225 Tract Optics

Tract is an optics company that was started by the two guys who headed Nikon’s rifle scope division, rising from ashes of Nikon’s exit from the 2A market. 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.

This episode is sponsored by Matt Hat beef jerky. Use code: MOONDOG to get 15%
Order a free sample using my link https://matthatjerky.com/products/sample-pack?ref=moondog

EARLYBIRD Clue:

THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This NY team is arguably the most successful in baseball, with the most World Series wins of any team.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

GUEST
Jon LaCorte, co-founder of Tract Optics

CONTESTS

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This NY team has the most rival teams in the Major Leagues, including the L.A. Dodgers, NY Mets, Boston Red Sox, and the S.F. Giants.

FEB CONTEST DRAWING

CONTEST 1

CONTEST FEB: Vector X8 LPVO
ENTER THE CONTEST 1

CONTEST 2

CONTEST FEB: OLight ArkPro
ENTER THE CONTEST 2

YARD SALE

Fundraiser for St. Anne Middle School 8th grade class trip to Washington D.C.
https://moondogindustries.com/yardsale/

This week, you can get a Monstrum 2000 lumen weaponlight for half off.

Yard Sale School Fundraiser
Shooting Sports

SHOT2026 Rise REV 535

At SHOT 2026, Rise Armament showed off a new class of AR trigger. They’re calling it a Slide-and-Snap trigger because, unlike Drop-in triggers, this trigger can be slid into an AR lower without having to remove the safety/selector. In addition, the trigger face is magnetic, making this trigger the easiest to install and customize of any trigger I’ve ever seen.

Shooting Sports

SHOT2026 Ounce Filding Pistol

When I first saw the Ounce ultri-compact, folding pistol I thought it was ‘the most innovative pistol of SHOT 2023’. Three years later, I returned to the 3rd Bay booth at SHOT Show to talk with the pistol’s inventor.

The video short I posted back in 2023 blew up on YouTube. Today, it is the most-watched video on my channel. Many of the posts I get on that video make similar comments. I thought I’d ask Bill, the inventor of the Ounce, to respond to the most common questions and comments, like why it costs $899?

3RD BAY
https://www.ounceoz.com/

Shooting Sports

TMI 260218 Ash Wednesday

Today, I’m observing Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the Christian calendar. 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.

This episode is sponsored by Matt Hat beef jerky. Use code: MOONDOG to get 15%
Order a free sample using my link https://matthatjerky.com/products/sample-pack?ref=moondog

EARLYBIRD Clue:

THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

https://www.hazzbroshide.com

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This canned seafood brand, along with its competitors Bumble Bee, and Star Kist, is one of the best selling brands of canned tuna and seafood.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

LENT
The 40 days of religious reflection and atonement before Easter in the Roman Catholic calendar, starting on Ash Wednesday and concluding on Easter Sunday. Practices include:
Prayer (justice to God)
Fasting (justice to self)
Almsgiving (justice to neighbor)

Lent observances were officially codified as a 40-day observance during the Council of Nicea in 325. The duration, it’s start and end days vary by Christian denomination. The Eastern Orthodox church observes a different calendar.

Lent is an Old English word similar to lente in Old Dutch, or lenz in Old-German / now früling which means Springtime.

Lent was the most significant and holy days of the year in the Christian calendar. Easter not Christmas is the holiest day of the year, though modern secular traditions and a music would have you think otherwise. When was the last Easter Song you heard played on the radio?

During those 40 days early Christians would abstain from eating from sunrise to sunset. Since Vatican2 in the late 1960’s it’s just been relaxes to only abstaining from meat on Fridays during lent. To me that’s the beginning of coddling Woke-isms relaxing of self discpline. Before 1970, Catholics used to abstain from meat every Friday. That’s why McDonalds invented the Fillet-o-Fish

Why 40 days? 40 is a holy number in Biblical and cultural tradition of the middle-east. Noah was adrift for 40 days and 40 nights. Elijah and Jesus spent 40 days in the desert. In certain Jewish traditions, the 10 Plagues of Egypt lasted 40 days before Moses was allowed to leave Egypt. And the Tribes of Israel wandered the desert for 40 years before they found the Promised Land.

But why 40? 40 days is considered a long period of time in pre-history. It’s approximately 1 week past a full lunar cycle.

But I couldn’t find hard reason cited in my research into Sumerian traditions. Sumeria had a base 60/12 number system. That’s where we get 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. 12 hours in a day. They counted using 1 hand to the number 12.

40 is a common holy number in the Indo-European region. One country where 40 came up is Kyrgyzstan. Krygz is the origin of one of my most favorite villians in cinema, the Kurgan from Highlander.

Highlander came out in 1986 and they’re filming a remake staring Henry Cavill and Dave Bautista. The Kurgan was played by Clancy Brown who voices Mr. Crabs on Spongebob Squarepants

CONTESTS

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This canned seafood brand was started in San Pedro, California by Van de Camps seafoods and was later sold to Ralston Purina. It gets its name from albacore tuna which as noted for its mild white texture, much like chicken. On her MTV reality show, 1990’s pop singer Jessica Simpson infamously admitted on camera that she thought this canned tuna was chicken. 

FEB CONTEST DRAWING

CONTEST 1

CONTEST FEB: Vector X8 LPVO
ENTER THE CONTEST 1

CONTEST 2

CONTEST FEB: OLight ArkPro
ENTER THE CONTEST 2

YARD SALE

Fundraiser for St. Anne Middle School 8th grade class trip to Washington D.C.
https://moondogindustries.com/yardsale/

This week, you can get a Monstrum 2000 lumen weaponlight for half off.

Yard Sale School Fundraiser
Shooting Sports

SHOT2026 PSA AXR prototype

https://youtu.be/VfCvPaNqiIk

This year, Palmetto State Armory debuted the newly rechristened Jakl 2.0 from last year, to become the soon-to-be-released AXR. Unlike the Jakl, this rifle utilizes a proprietary lower and an adjustable short-stroke action. But like the Jakl, the body design is inspired by the abandoned Magpull MASADA assault rifle. One hopes this rifle will be less prone to reliability issues than the JAKL.