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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
Aquilfer (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 1 Dec 2025 and 12:00pm EST 31 Dec 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 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.
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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.
Vector Optics’ Continental line is their top-of-the-line model. They feature higher-quality construction, design, and components, such as extra-low-dispersion Schott glass, typically found in more expensive European (hence “Continental”) models. This 1-8×24 LPVO delivers daylight-bright illumination via a fiber-optic thread inside the reticle crosshairs.
The fiber dot is as bright as a red dot and its illumination dial has an OFF setting between each numbered setting, but stops at 11 and does not continue back to 1. I believe this is to prevent the user from accidentally turning to the 1, which is quite dim. One additional oddity is the inclusion of a replacement turret top, which only has a 0 printed on it. This turret top does not have a zero stop, so I believe this aids in “returning” their original zero when momentarily adjusting for longer range shots?
Optically, the image was flat, bright, and color accurate owing to the quality of the Schott glass. A viewer posted a comment on my previous Continental LPVO video that I was wrong about the German origins of the Schott glass, intimating that Schott has glass factories in Asia.
I asked Vector Optics about this, and they informed me that they sourced their Continental glass from Germany, which is why it’s more expensive than their other scope lines. In my research, I found Schott does have factories in Asia, but those only produce glass for labs and pharmaceutical manufacturing. The precision optical Schott glass is made at their factory in Germany. If anyone can find evidence otherwise, let me know.
In other aspects, I found the Continental 1-8×24 to be a superb example of a high-quality fiber optic LPVO. At the time of posting this video, Vector Optics will be lowering its prices for Black Friday week promotions. The discount code they’ve given me will apply to those lower promotion prices, so you’ll get an even better deal. They’ve also offered to let me give away a Continental 1-8×24 Fiber LPVO at the start of 2026. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you can be updated when I post details about that free contest.
Aquilfer contacted me to review their TP 1-8×24 LPVO, and my first thought was, “What an Aquilfer?” I assumed Aquilfer was a random, nonsensical brand name like other Chinese companies such as UUQ, Pinty, Blavor, or Reechoo. But as it turns out, Aquilfer is a real word. It is the rank/position of the soldier in a Roman legion who earns the honor of carrying its eagle standard.
Despite the cool name origin, the name itself may not have much to offer a typical scope buyer. Similarly, the TP 1-8×24 is an LPVO that looks pretty generic and unremarkable. It does come with its own budget cantilever mounts, but on closer inspection, it has some sloppy milling and matching.
Optically, the glass was pretty mid-to-unremarkable, exhibiting a slightly distorted feel when scanning around at 1x. illuminated reticle. Its eyebox was a little tight, and brightness and color accuracy were slightly less than average. Despite noticeable chromatic aberration, the scope offered surprisingly sharp images for a budget LPVO and a daylight-bright reticle.
Full disclosure, the first TP 1-8×24 I received for testing had a black spot blemish in the lens. To their credit, Aquilfer responded to my email and website request for service and shipped me a new LPVO within 6 days. What the TP lacks in finish and QC, Aquilifer makes up for in customer service. The TP 1-8×24 may not be the best-built LPVO out there, but it does the job, holds zero, and saves you some cash by its low price.
When I reviewed the BX-4 Pro Guide HD Gen2 last year, I was impressed by its world-class optical performance. Over the last couple of months, I have grown to like it even more. Recently, I took it to a baseball game at San Francisco’s Oracle Park.
The BX4 gave excellent views of the players in the field. I went handheld for the entire game, so its wide exit pupil and broad zone of focus made looking through it and finding focus very eas,y no matter the distance of my object of interest. Best of all, the ergonomics made the BX4 feel effortless to hold. This will be my go-to optic for my sporting events moving forward.
The most common hesitancy shooters have with switching to a red dot as their primary optic is the battery and reliability. There’s a fear that the battery will die at the worst possible moment. A few years ago, Holosun came up with a solution by adding a mini solar panel to their micro reflex sights. CVLife has introduced a budget version of this same concept in the Wildhawk X.
The Wildhawk X is a motion-activated, multi-reticle micro reflex with a 2 MOA dot and a 40 MOA circle or a combination of both. The green-dot version features a slightly smaller 32 MOA circle for some reason. Apart from a different colored tint to the lens, there is no functional difference between the two versions. Both feature a RMR footprint with a base almost (but not quite) low enough to use factory iron sights.
The WildHawk is powered by a 1632 coin battery but if the battery power dies, the unit can be powered directly through solar panels built in top of its frame. The unit has no internal battery so the solar panel directly powers the unit. What that effectively means is that the unit does require sunlight or a bright light to function in this mode; it will not work without battery power in the dark. In addition, the solar panel functions as a light sensor when auto-brightness mode is engaged.
The WildHawk runs about half the price of the Holosun HE507C but comes with a lot more accessories. The box includes a MOS to RMR adapter plate, a Pictatinny riser mount, and a whole bunch of screw sets to help you fit it the Wilhawk onto your RMR cut pistol slide.
Micro Reflex sights are becoming increasingly more and more reliable. But even a 50,000-hour run time is a theoretical maximum under ideal conditions. Adding a solar panel as a backup power source makes a lot of sense.
This prize supplied by Highligh 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
Hotligh (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 22 Nov 2025 and 12:00pm EST 31 Dec 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 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.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk about Black Friday Sales with my guests @CyclopsJoeVideos Cyclops Joe and @HillbillyUp American Hillbilly. This video is sponsored by Aura. 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.
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Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. Along with Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season and is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.
The term Black Friday used to be a negative description for a Stock Market crash. It first appeared in The New York Times on November 29, 1975 to describe a strong shopping weekend where retailers sales accounting shifted from being “Being in the Red, to being in the Black”. The term caught on in the rest of the country by the late 1980’s.
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This discount store chain began as S. S. Kresge in the late 1890’s and grew to become one of the largest retail chains in the US, rivaling Walmart. After a slow decline throughout the 1990’s it filed for bankruptcy in 2002, later merging with rival Sears, before both folded in late 2019. They closed most of their US locations. Today it exists as an online retailer with only 3 small phyical stores still open.
The LHT 3-12×42 is Discovery Optics’ most affordable crossover scope. This scope has the lightweight, slim profile of a traditional 3-9x hunting scope, with an FFP tactical reticle for precision target shooting. In addition, it features exposed locking turrets and an illuminated reticle.
The LHT’s turrets had some wiggle between each 1/4 MOA click, but the clicks were audible and tactile positive. Its parallax focus can target as close as 7 yards, making it an ideal optic for airgun or rimfire hunters. Its illuminated reticle is twilight bright with highlighted dots at key points.
Optically, it had a good eyebox but was not tack sharp from the center to the outer edge, which showed distortion and softening. Its clarity and brightness dropped off significantly above 10x. The glass also showed some CA at high magnifications. While optically average, the LHT’s features make it a better value than most 3-9x scopes below $150.
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The IT Crowd is a British television sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4 in 2006, created, written, and directed by Graham Linehan and starring Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. There was a failed attempt to create a US version of the show after the success of The Office which was also originally a British TV comedy, but the pilot of the US IT Crowd just wasn’t as funny.
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Tim Mooney IT professional from southwest Michigan. Lived in Michigan all my life. I went to college to learn electronics, then worked in IT. I grew up with firearms but got into collecting when I was 21. I’ve been reloading since 1996.
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This company rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. But largely missed on emerging trends and technologies such as the Internet, digital music, and smart phones. But it did have one of its successes in becoming a dominant company in gaming with the XBox.
The Mantis Titan X is an innovative dry-fire training system. The Titan X was first introduced at SHOT Show 2025 and this mock pistol fuses digital technology with a practical training tool. The Titan X has the built-in motion sensors of the Mantis X10, molded into a 1:1 scale and weight mock-up of a Glock 19 pistol with a realistic trigger.
With each trigger pull, a laser is activated, indicating where a bullet would have impacted on a target. In addition, the Titan X comes with two realistically weighted mock magazines that can be ejected to simulate reloads. Users can pair the Mantis Titan X with the Mantis Pistol/Rifle app and 3rd party laser targeting Apps like Laser Academy.
The user can quickly diagnose and learn from bad trigger habits like slapping, pulling or pushing the trigger, as well as anticipating recoil. Unlike traditional dry-firing, the user does not have to rack and reset their trigger. The Titan X trigger automatically resets, so rapid fire can be simulated. Best of all, this can all be done safely indoors or at home because no real ammo is used. Moreover, you don’t have to pay for ammo, so the Titan X quickly pays for itself.
