Firearms and shooting sports
At SHOT Show 2026 they showed me a prototype of a new 1-10×24 LPVO and production models of their 8-80×56 Tracking spotting scopes. March Scopes creates handmade optics in Japan that produce bleeding-edge results, and their prices are eye-wattering.
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Many of us have heard of IRAs and ROTH IRAs, but I learned only very late how much better the latter is and the tax implications of ROTH Conversions. Let’s dive into what I learned.
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This American financial services company was founded in San Francisco in 1971 as the First Commander Corporation before taking the two word name of one of its founders. It was briefly owned by Bank of America in 1984 before buying itself back and going independent in 1987.
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YouTube just deleted 4.2 million views and dozens of channels that it says violated it’s Terms of Use by posting A.I. Generated Low Quality Content “Slop”. Most of these channels were in India and Latin America. Some of them include these 5 biggest channels
CuentosFacianantes (Fascinating Tales): Considered the top AI channel in the report, it had ~5.9 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views before being removed. It primarily produced low-quality, AI-generated Dragon Ball-themed stories.
Imperio de Jesus: A major channel with ~5.8 million subscribers that featured AI-generated religious quizzes and content.
Super Cat League: A channel with ~4.2 million subscribers known for AI-generated content.
Screen Culture: A prominent channel specializing in “AI concept trailers,” often merging real footage with fake actors and stealing views from official content.
KH Studio: A major AI trailer channel often cited alongside Screen Culture for producing mass-produced, fake AI trailers.
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I’ve been using a CVLife laser bore sighter for a few years. It sits in a banged-up cardboard box in my range bag. Recently, CVLife has released a series of updated laser bore sight kits in deluxe plastic hard cases.
This 32-piece kit has more than double the caliber adapter tips as my old kit. Moreover, this kit has an arbor adapter, which helps when using the kit with a short-barreled pistol. Finally, this kit has a laser emitter that runs off an internal battery that is recharged by unscrewing the tip of the laser, exposing a USB-A plug.
While I may not need 32 adapter tips, the rechargeable tip makes this a useful upgrade for my old kit.
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Discovery LHT 3-12×42
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DiscoveryOpt 6061 Med 1.26″ scope rings
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Caliber Adapters: 32
Power: Internal Battery
Power Input: USB-A
Laser: Green
Weight: 12.35 oz
Case Height: 8.98″
Case Width: 6.93″
Case Depth: 1.85″
Watch my video about the Best Hack for using a Laser Borsighter https://youtu.be/bc4ca6I6J68
CLP gun oil impregnated disposable wipes are nothing new. Otis has had them for a few years. But CL1P is introducing a new disposable wipe packet that promises to be the highest quality wipes on the market due to its proprietary fabric material.
CL1P claims that a single wipe packet can clean an entire rifle. Its long fiber material has variable geometry fibers that pick up fowling particles and traps them in the material, allowing less contamination to remain on your firearm.
Moreover, it will leave your firearm foul-free and leave a thin coating of dry lubricant and protectant. Its cleaning and lubricanting solvent has very little odor and is less irritating to the skin.
AI Slop everywhere. YouTube recently deleted channels with millions of views because they were A.I. Slop. But these channels are coming back with minor changes. Will A.I. crowd out the humans?
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This margine brand was created by the Lever Brothers Company which later became Unilever. It gets it’s royal european sounding name may be tied to Unilevers roots as a Dutch company.
AI SLOP Nuked by YouTube
YouTube just deleted 4.2 million views and dozens of channels that it says violated it’s Terms of Use by posting A.I. Generated Low Quality Content “Slop”. Most of these channels were in India and Latin America. Some of them include these 5 biggest channels
CuentosFacianantes (Fascinating Tales): Considered the top AI channel in the report, it had ~5.9 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views before being removed. It primarily produced low-quality, AI-generated Dragon Ball-themed stories.
Imperio de Jesus: A major channel with ~5.8 million subscribers that featured AI-generated religious quizzes and content.
Super Cat League: A channel with ~4.2 million subscribers known for AI-generated content.
Screen Culture: A prominent channel specializing in “AI concept trailers,” often merging real footage with fake actors and stealing views from official content.
KH Studio: A major AI trailer channel often cited alongside Screen Culture for producing mass-produced, fake AI trailers.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuRTBA_gdX1Jy98D-kma3Q
https://www.youtube.com/@Imperio_de_Jesus/shorts
https://www.youtube.com/@mindofstates
LoFiLulla
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Natalylofi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W41OtfmpSik
LadiesCall
https://www.youtube.com/@LadiesCall/shorts
Tilly Norwood
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CVLife rolled out the Bear Swift multiple reticle solar red dot, a completely solar powered reflex sight that runs off of an internal solar charging battery. The Bear Swift features a selectable 2MOA dot and a 32 MOA circle/starburst reticle. It has a Glock MOS footprint which along with this low base, allows it to co-witness to factory iron sights.
Overall build quality is top-notch and a far cry from CVLife’s budget offerings from 10 years. The glass is flat, the reticle is crisp, and it has motion activation from sleep to concerve battery life. It has a rated 20,000 runtime at low brightness on the dot which is over 2 years.
The BearSwift is an alternative to the CVlife WildHawk X, which has a back-up solar panel but runs off a replaceable coin battery but that has a RMR footprint. https://youtu.be/emxu_VHTdes
The completely solar-powered unit is useful for shooters who regularly go to the range, which would allow regular racharging of the internal battery. But for occasional shooters, collectors, or as a bedside gun, the requirement for solar charge can pose an issue. It would have been nice if this optic had a USB-C or magnetic charging as a backup.
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BearSwift
Magnification: 1x
Window: 20 x 16mm
Reticle: 2 MOA + 32 MOA Circle
Color: Red
Brightness: 2(NV) + 8
Max Adj: ±40 MOA
Click Value: 1 MOA
Waterproof: IPX 7
Footprint: MOS
Weight:1.31 oz
Dimensions: 2″ x 1.13″ x 1.06″
UTG has been quietly modernizing the MP5 by offering clamp-on handguards that allow the mounting of all the lasers, lights, and tactical accessories that a Tier 1 Operator would want in the legendary SMG. At SHOT Show 2026, they brought a new extended lower handguard sized for suppressors and a new fully knurled round charging handle.
Aquilifer is a budget scope brand that takes its name from the Aquilifer, the soldier in the Roman Legion given the honor of holding the golden eagle standard. Their EP 5-25×56 FFP is their new flagship long-range optic, but with a budget to mid-range price point of around $300.
To achieve this low price, this optic made some trade-offs. It has a very unforgiving eyebox that’s tight even at its lowest 5x magnification. It is also a heavy scope at over 2lbs. Its Vortex-style turrets only offer a middling 26 MRAD of adjustments.
Its value-tier price and overall performance make up for many of its shortcomings. The scope has well-made turrets with a Vortex-style zero stop. Its illumination is almost daylight bright. It has ED (Extra Low Dispersion) glass, which allowed me to see a good level of detail at 25x, though the image lacked contrast and sharpness above 16x. Given its weight and limited range of elevation adjustments, I wouldn’t recommend this for PRS or NRL-22 competition, but it’s a good entry-level scope for mid-range bench rest.
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Group -1 / Element 4
HT
Magnification: 5-25x
Objective: 56mm
Eye Relief: 3.54″–a4.33″
Exit Pupil: 11.2mm –2.24mm
Parallax Focus: 15y – ∞
FOV @ 100y: 22.9ft-4.4ft
Click Value: 0.1 MRAD
Max Elev Adj: ±26 MRAD
Max Wind Adj: ±26 MRAD
Tube Diam: 34mm
Length: 15.26″
Weight: 35.2oz
Illumination: 12 levels red
Battery: CR2032
At SHOT Show 2026, Monstrum’s newest products weren’t new scopes but a whole new product line: red dots. Monstrum sold red dots a recently 5 years ago but quietly dropped those products due to issues with quality. They didn’t want poor products to taint their strategy of improving quality and performance in the budget optic brand space.
They released their Nitro line of traditional reflex sights in both RMR and RMCs models. At their SHOT both, they showed their newly released Bird of Prey (B.O.P.) shotgun dot. And they showed me a prototype of an upcoming enclosed emitter red dot, which didn’t have a name at the time.
Monstrum changed the budget optic landscape about 5 years ago with the introduction of good-quality LPVOs under $200. I was fortunate to be part of the awareness of this brand with my reviews of their Banshee and later a head-to-head comparison review of their Panzer vs a much more expensive one Vortex Razor HD Gen3. Spoiler alert, the Razor was the better optic but the Panzer was not bad in comparison.
Monstrums history of delivering better-than-good-enough quality for a shockingly low price bodes well for their new red dots. I look forward to testing them out this year.
Nitro+ red dot: https://alnk.to/d3FY8t3
B.O.P. shotgun dot https://alnk.to/1N5tmev
L3i is a precision chassis maker that produces some of the sweetest looking, modular chassis for precision long range shooting. They showed off their Remington 700 and CZ platform chassis and custom magazines at SHOT Show 2026.
