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Riflescopeblog is written by Steven K. Ledin, OpticsPlanet’s Director of Product Intelligence. Follow Steve’s daring exploits as he shoots, travels, hunts, tests, teaches, modifies, and breaks the latest rifle scopes, red dots, lights, lasers and more. Get an insight into the corporate world of a professional gunbitch with a dose of his philosophical insight.
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01 Apr
>ATN PS-40 and Chuck the Vet’s Meat
April 1, 2010
Continued from the previous blog: The ATN PS-40 comes in a great SKB hard case with all accessories and tools needed to mount the scope to a pic rail. The BAM mount is separate. The IR illuminator is included, and gives you the opportunity to use the device in complete darkness. Just this morning I spoke again to the person I plan to use it with for coyotes, and we’re trying to button the trip down a little tighter.
My friend Chuck the Vet was over the other day for some gun stuff. He just got a couple of new
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>ATN PS-40 Generation 4 Night Vision Device with BAM mount on EGW HD Base on Savage 10 FCP McMillan .308 Winchester
March 26, 2010
My Savage 10 FCP McMillan has a new top end on it. It’s the ATN PS-40. After decades of professional gunstuff employment, I’m a bit jaded, and not too many items excite me extraordinarily. This unit definitely does. It’s the big brother of the excellent ATN PS-22, with a larger objective lens and commensurate performance. I have to return it, but I’ll get a chance this year to beat the heck out of it in the field, and a tentative hunting trip is already planned for song dogs and night time testing. OpticsPlanet.com will be offering them soon.
19 Mar
>5.11 Tactical Trainers and Ballistically Erotic Projectiles
March 19, 2010
My new 5.11 Tactical Trainers are superb. No break-in required. In Modesto, California last year at the 5.11 Dealer Symposium the Tactical Trainers were introduced. Turns out that at that time I was wearing a similar style of boot from an outdoor outfitter I like. I wore them on a safari in 2008 and got monkey blood on them that I never could get out. I was referred to as “Mr. Monkey Blood” by the folks from 5.11 Tactical. I have replaced those worn out things with the new 5.11 Tactical Trainers, and I won’t look back. They
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>Guns and Ammo and Cookies and Milk
March 14, 2010
Sometimes I get pretty saturated in my job, same as the cookies I soaked in milk during a midnight snack. This week was another busy one. I bring it home with me, too, but that’s okay. I would just do the same stuff anyway. After a long day of professional puttering with gun stuff and guns, I still read Gun Magazines for fun. It’s not all work.
Mounted a Bushnell Sportsman 3-9 with AO on a Remington model 5 bolt action .22 rimfire. Serbian manufacture. Some sharp places on the bolt, but it functioned without a hitch. Feeding from
11 Feb
>Adventures at SHOT
February 11, 2010
The annual SHOT (Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade) show was in Vegas this year. Lots of miles covered carrying lots of paraphernalia. Nikon had the coolest introduction of all with their “Spot On” ballistic program. More on this outstanding data program soon. Nikon also introduced the M223 scope with a BDC turret set for 55 grainers. Leupold has some great new products such as new tactical scopes and mounts, a new mini red dot, a rangefinder that is bow mounted and automatically activated, and most of all, the reintroduction of the Redfield riflescope line that will be the most heavily talked
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