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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we're talking new products, and we are concluding
the story of Bigfoot.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, I'm kJ, dedicated lifelong hunter.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
If you've got an interest in all things hunting, you're
in the right spot. Whether chasing quail across the plains
of Oklahoma or in pursuit of belk in the back
country of British Columbia, you'll always.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Find me on the hunt.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
All right, welcome and all you gun talk hunters. I
am your host, kJ. And this is a solo one
because apparently the folks who had the story on their
podcast did not get back to me, So this is
going to be a solo one. I am going to
finish it because I promised you guys that I was
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going to finish this story and.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It is a great story, and I'm going to finish
that at the top, and so kind of how I
would like to do this is I'm going to Okay,
I'm going to tell the rest of the story and
then we're going to talk about it. And I don't
know if Paul has a mic our producer, Paul, do
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you have a mic over there? He doesn't, but if
he has something really funny to say about this, I
will let his voice be heard in some form or fashion.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I will voice it over something.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
But Whiskey and Windage did not get back to me.
But I want to finish the story. But we have
new products to show some on the day of this recording,
just launch And FYI, I am bleeding all over the
place because if you're watching this, the deerhead that is
on the table just fell off and it's just a
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European mount and I go to grab it, and the
nose that has been broken off of this one and
I went to catch it and I stabbed myself. And
so this is this ten pointers last revenge I guess.
Like he ended up winning the bat of the War,
I guess, but he tasted delicious. So let's let's finish
(02:08):
this story. So this is the story and where we
had left off, and I'm gonna run through it real
quick and I will just finish it out because I
think that's probably the best way, don't you think, Paul,
So Bob is getting dropped off to go hunt he
he gets dropped off. Oh, I do have to say
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this episode is brought to you by Eotech, Bruger and Range. Ready,
we'll get that out of the way, Bob gets dropped off,
and he gets off, dropped off in a hunting blind.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I have to assume this is Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm pretty one hundred percent sure this can only happen
in a place like Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And he gets dropped off.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
His buddies go down the road and they're they're going
to start their hunt, and all of a sudden, they
hear five shots.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Bam, bam, bam, bam bam. Five shots. This is like
four point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So they kind of get to looking at each other
and they're like, you know what, it's a little too
early for Bob.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
To be shooting. We probably need to go in.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Before they really kind of get those words out of
their mouth, Bob is running down the road. He is
running as fast as his little legs will carry him.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
And so he.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Gets back and he's out of breath and he says,
there and he says, boys, I just shot Bigfoot. And they,
you know, I mean, how guys would do in camp.
I'm sure they were a little bit like, yeah, right,
he goes, Nope, he goes, I was sitting there and
he goes, all of a sudden, I started scrolling through
my phone and bigfoot reached through the blind, grab my phone,
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and so I just started shooting shot five times and
he goes, I bailed and I headed out, and they go, well,
let's go back. He goes, no, I ain't going back
those woods. And so he's sitting there and he's looking
at it and they're like, they're like.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, we'll wait till daylight.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And he's like, you can wait on the marines. I'm
not going out there, Like, you can wait on whoever
you want. You take me back to camp. So sure enough,
they take Bob back to camp and they're like, is
there something to this, like I like, he was apparently
visibly shaken. And again this was shared on Whiskey and Windach.
(04:13):
I want to give them credit because this story is
not from me, but it's interesting enough to talk about.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And so.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Daylight comes up, and so the merry men of hunting
they go and they go to the blind, and sure enough,
there are five bullet holes in this blind.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Their fight.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Now they're getting freaked out, and they probably start freaking
out even more when in front of the blind where
the bullet holes are, there's blood. So Bob, in his
excellent marksmanship through the blind, has hit something. They don't
know what it is. They see no signs of cell phone.
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They see a burnt rubber track headed down one side
of the road and blood leading off the other way.
So something has happened. So, like any good hunters do,
they start blood trailing whatever it is, they trail it,
They trail it, they trail it, and they get about
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six hundred yards away, six hundred yards away, and lo
and behold, Bob was kind of right. They're six hundred
yards away from the blind. Was Bigfoot with a cell
phone in his hand. It was a four hundred pound
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silver back gorilla. A four hundred pound silverback gorilla. Okay,
let's play what would you do? I think I would
be like Bob. I would shoot until I did not
have any shots left. Because I think you're you're sitting
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in this blind. You're sitting in this blind, and your
phone is there, and it is probably too bright. So
all of a sudden, this dark, shadowy figure appears and
this meaty Paul reaches through the blind and snags your
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cell phone, takes that out of your hand. One where's
my change of pants? Because I'm screaming, I'm yelling, I
don't that would terrify me. Come on, Paul, you've got
to be on and you have to like put yourself
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in this like ilk, like you've got to be right
there in the blind with me. You do not leave
that blind like I can't imagine and not god to
mention like shoot and run, because have you ever seen
a silver back's like mitst the things that they do
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with those hands. I could not imagine sitting in a
blind in a dang silver back gorilla reaching through the blind.
That's the last cell phone he was going to reach for.
I'll tell you that much I could. And so you
you start to is could could this be real?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is this real? Well?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I have to assume it is because it's Texas. There
are more game animals, like more exhaus in Texas. And
you know there was some Texan out there that's like,
you know what we ought to have on this farm
or at least in a nice enclosure. I will make
it real nice where he can't get out. We should
have a silver back gorilla.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I think that's something I need to know before I
go to wherever I'm hunting.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Are there any silver backguerrillas where I'll be hunting?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Like if Okay, next time I go to a Texas
hunting camp, that's gonna be the first words out of
my mouth. I'm telling you, I cannot get this story
out of my mind. I mean it because we all hunt.
We hunt, and you're a hunter. If you're listening to this,
you have an interest in it, and maybe you're new.
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I don't want this to dissuade you from like entering
the woods. But our minds sometimes play tricks on us,
Like and it's happened to me, Like I'm walking to
the blind and all of a sudden, I think I
hear something. I was opening the gym this morning, and
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I was sitting there and I thought I heard someone
say something. I'm the only one in the gym. I'm
opening it up, so like, your mind just plays tricks
on you when you're alone.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
But Dad Gumet, I really feel bad for Bob because
his you think right.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Before that Gorilla took his phone, he heard like a
little like did he hear something before that? Like I
can't find Bob. I don't know where Bob is. I
wish I could have him on the podcast, because that
dude has the story above all stories.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
When he's sitting around a campfire. Everybody is just.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Holding like he is holding court because this story.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Is in.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I'm telling it. I'm telling it and I don't even
know Bob, and I think you should know this story,
Like this is a story you can go back to
your friends and go, hey, dude, you should hear what
happened to this guy.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And that's what I did.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I've been telling this story all over the place and
people are like, no way. I'm like, it's Texas, and
they go, well, maybe maybe maybe it could happen, And
I just have to think that my gosh, like and okay,
let's let's let's go a step further because I don't
know any of the other the rest of the story.
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As Paul Harvey would once say, what was the react?
Like what thoughts go through your mind? Your mind? Can
I mount this thing?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Like okay, do you have to have a tag for
that thing? Is who you?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Obviously you really do need to call the wildlife and game.
I mean, but you didn't know, oh, like, and like
how do you explain that? Look, I was sitting there
on my cellphone. He reached through and so I just
started shooting. Okay, did you know what you were shooting
at because here's the terrifying fact. I mean, you could
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probably tell between a fake gorilla hand and a real one,
I would hope, and it was very much real. But
what if it was his his friend's playing a joke
on him. Mmm, now you've got a problem. Now you're
now you're being tried for murder. But some evolutionists might
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say you still should be tried for murder. Not not me,
not me, But I'm just saying, so, what are the
what are the legal ramifications for shooting a silverback gorilla
in Texas? I need a lawyer to contact me, please,
because that's interesting. Where do you go from there? I mean,
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are they considering an invasive species? Because our good buddy
Luke Capria because I was like, well, can you shoot
a bigfoot? Are they invasive or are they native? So
there's that, so would you need a license?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's the story of Bob and Bigfoot, and I just
I can't get it out of my mind. And I know,
like if you got the more you think about it,
the more bizarre this story is. And then it really
could happen because on all these like Texas ranches, I mean,
they have these game auctions and everything else, and it
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is not beyond the scope of reality to sit there
and go, oh yeah, like a guy, a hunter's coming
in and he wants to to shoot a giraffe or
a hippo, and oh, magically, there's a hippo on this ranch.
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I've heard about it before. Well, we didn't have one,
but we knew of a ranch, you know, three ranches
over that had this ex exotic game animal or whatever
wherever you want to shoot, and so we went over
and we bought it, and he came up and you know,
the it's a funny story that I do.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Reflect on every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
As on some of these ranches, well they kind of
need to acclimate to the area and stuff like that,
and so they like until they put them out with
the other animals, they got to make sure they've got
a clean bill of health and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And so.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The hunter comes in. Man, we just didn't see him today.
Oh man, we didn't see him the next day. All right,
on the third day, I'm sure he's probably going to
show up here at some point. Kick him out of
the trailer, clear bill of health, go for it. And
then magically shows up and man that hunt ended on
the third morning.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It happens like stuff like that happens.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
It's fascinating because I mean, with any amount of money,
you can, like you can hunt any game animals you
really want in Texas. I know that's like I've seen
them on the hoof. I'm like, how'd that thing get here?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The game auction down the road like he was we
purchased him like a couple of weeks ago, all right,
Like that's I mean, it's cool, But I'm not I'm
not hating on any ranches, Like I don't want that
to like come across like I think it's wrong or
anything like that. They are doing a service because a
lot of these game ranches are doing their conservation efforts,
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like FTW has a great conservation program where they have
some of the largest herds of populations in all of
the world, and so they are doing doing a good
service in concert. But I think when you start talking
about the hunting aspects and like it's like ordering off
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of a menu almost like on which you know, ranches
have these animals and stuff like that that saves you
some money from going over to Africa, I guess to
hunt them or wherever they're from. But anyway, that's the story,
I'm sticking to it. After this break, we're going to
get into a couple of new products. Three new products,
two of them launched on the date of this filming,
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which is on the twentieth of March, and one of
them has been out since shot show.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And we shot it on.
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To learn more.
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You ever wish your hunting rifle had an optic so
compact and tough it could probably survive a bar fight, well,
meet the Eotech Voodoo three to nine by thirty two.
At just six point eight inches, this little beast is
built from aircraft grade aluminum because regular aluminum is for
soda cans. It's fogproof, waterproof, shockproof, basically life proof. You
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get crisp second focal plane, precision capturists that won't get
bumped out of zero, and an illuminated radical with ten
brightness settings. And the best part, it's got an integrated
base that plays nice with many a COG mounts. So yeah,
it's short, it's sharp, and it's ready to make you
feel like a marksman of legend the Voodoo three to
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nine by thirty two, because your rifle deserves better than
good enough.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, we're back gunn Talk Hunters. This for an update.
Paul our producer, phenomenal job on the research. But under
the dude, you've got to just tell me it and
I'll repeat it. The Dangerous Wild Animal Act apparently it
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does allow you to have gorillas and apes now as
far as shooting them like you can because it it
like there's a gray area, maybe a silver area if
you will, but it's more of a like because silver
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backs are endangered. So that's a gotta be a big
no no. However, under the Wild and Dangerous Game Laws
it said as you can shoot like you can own them. Uh,
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there's there's a gray area there that I'm not I
could not legally tell you to do it. I'm not
a lawyer, neither's Paul. Okay, all right, jumping into new products,
let's talk about the one that has been out for
a little bit, Eotech, the three to nine by thirty two.
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It's six point eight inches long, is already on a
picatinuing mount, mounted up for you, ready to go. But
this scope is a second focal plane optic. It weighs
one point zero six pounds, so yeah, it's a three
to nine. And yesterday when we were shooting we're launching
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a new season of guns and gear here at gun
Talk Media, we shot this little little sucker. It is small.
It is the smallest three to nine optic have seen.
I mean from bridge to nose of this white tail
euro mount. The white tail is larger than the optic,
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which is rare in the day of optics. So uh,
really super impressed with it. Second focal plane typically is
a is a hunter's scope, and that's what I think
a lot of guys are going to use this for.
And they offer all they offer it just with you know,
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just with the three to nine rifle scope, but they
also offer one package that is the three to nine
optic and an e flex, so a red dot with
a Ring Mountain. So why would you get that one? Well,
I mean, looking at it, that would be a true
one one power optic red dot for close end stuff
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and a three to nine take exting your range for hunters.
That's massive, you know if you're with it and Chris
yesterday we were shooting little small plates with the red
dot at one hundred yards, no problem. It was on
a forty five degree can't now you can use that
as a straight up ninety degree deal, but you would
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have to move your caps that come with the optics.
So I'm gonna tell you right now, super impressed. It's
got you know, the whole water resistant, all that good stuff.
But it so it's an illuminated HC one radical. So
this is this is an MOA scope.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
That's that's like a. That's a new dirty word for me. Ma,
that's I'm I'm more I'm more of the mill guy.
But I can do some MOA too. But the lit
radical is awesome because it has the little.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
On on.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
The off indicators in between each number, so you don't
have to switch it all the way back to ten
or to zero. You can just you know, go in
between the levels of brightness. Which there's ten of them,
which is which is a great option. It's powered by
a c R two zero three two battery. But yeah,
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the Voodoo HC one radical. I man, if you're looking
for a lightweight, lightweight gun and a smaller package to
carry around with you, this is not gonna take up
any space.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I wonder what's next because every time a new product
like this comes out that, I'm like, man, they really
kind of knocked it out of the park on that one.
What are they capable of? You know, what are are
they capable? Because you think about it, Eotech really has
been on the cusp of doing something even greater than
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this because they had a like three to eighteen optic
that was like, it was really really small. So I
just wonder and I think it was their Voodoo. It
was their Voodoo five to twenty five, which it was.
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It's a five typically five to twenty five, you know,
magnification powered scopes are a lot bigger, and theirs was
one of the shortest like ever created, So just makes
you think, what's what's possible? And we are definitely living
in the golden age of gear right now because the
two products that really launched that really have impressed me
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because we're always mounting and unmounting scopes, we're always moving
optics all over the place. Because when you talk about
shows like Guns and Gear and Buildbox, even to a
certain extent, First Person Defender and a lot of the
other content that we produce, I mean, we have to
maneuver optics because we just don't have enough optics to
just slap on. And we have favorites, you know, like
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this Voodoo three to nine that this optic will go
on a lot of different things. So we need we
need a better sense of what like the tools that
we have, and I'll jump into.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Oh why don't we why don't we.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Roll with the pro Torq. The pro Torque is is
a cool one just because it's I don't know, it's
a pro it's a torque wrench.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I mean, you know you've seen them.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Caldwell has them, and there's quite a few more out
there that or Wheeler has them. Wheeler Tools has them,
the fat wrench and stuff like that that we're all
aware of. And they work great, they're they're they're great
little tools. But the pro tork wrench is brand new
and it is handy, has buttons on shirts. As my
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grandfather would say it, you can adjust it with one hand.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I really like that.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And it's got it's the number the pound, inch pounds
indicators on it are clearly marked. And so for each
turn is each turn of the torque wrench, there are
notations on the bezel of the wrench that are marked.
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They're indicators there. It's marked two, four, six, eight and
then zero and so each have revolution of the torque
wrench is ten pound adjustments. So you can get really fine.
So if you wanted to go to eighteen, you would
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just back it off to match up the inch pounds
and the number eight and then there you go. You're
I mean, you're in business, and so you have eighteen
inch pounds. So I think that's really cool that they've
done it that way. But it's offering your torque settings
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from ten pounds all the way up to ninety and
of course with any four tex product you get a
lifetime guaranteed on it, so just send it in and
that's that's amazing. But yeah, and all of the I
want to see what so bit holder works with any
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quarter drive bits, quarter inch bits and you get let
me see so you get eight hex bits from three
sixteenths all the way up to two millimeter, which is cool.
Three torques bits T ten, ten, T fifteen, and T
twenty five one ten millimeters wide screwdriver bit, and one
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half inch socket a quarter inch hex a quarter inch
square socket adapter. So I mean for mountain optics, this
is all you need. This little thing right here. It's
got a the for all the bits. It's got a
nice little holder that wraps right around the torque drive set,
which is which is man, it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I like it. And we just got.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
These in and we're gonna do a little bit over them,
and I hope you guys like it. But this is
kind of our first feature piece over like kind of
detailing what it is. But but so far it's really
really worked out. I think more and more companies, especially
in the in the space where like so the mounting
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as far as like mounting the optics, you know, scope
rings and bases and stuff like that, companies are getting
a lot better at putting like blatantly on the products.
And Vortex is one of these companies that say that
say these hexes should be torked to eighteen inch pounds
these right here, and so they're doing a little good
job on not letting you overtrk these because that can cause.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Issues to shooting down range.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Last one that I really want to talk about, and
it's so simple, and I know you guys are probably
bored with product talk, but these are the cool things
that we get in that Sometimes the simplest, you know,
the simplest products don't get the most love. It's always
these new fangled like guns and calibers and stuff like that,
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they get all the love. And I think products like
this are often missed. But this is a pro leveling kit,
is what they're calling it. They're pro leveling Kit twenty
four bucks, and so it's twenty five bucks. It's it's
it's an easy buy if you will, one handed operation, lightweight,
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and it comes with two levels the one and I'm
gonna try. I'm gonna do my dangust to describe it
for you guys.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Listen over the.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Airways, which I do appreciate. But it's spring loaded for
any pickrail. So if you can picture a very very
slim line piece of equipment with a bubble level on
the end of it and closed, and these are very accurate.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
But you can hook it onto a pick.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Rail and the spring closes which will hold it into
place so you don't have the level coming off or
it's loose, so you know it's locked in there. And
where I also see this coming into play are on
your hunting guns. Just leave this set up on a
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pickrail on your hunting gun under your scope, and now
you have a level on your scope.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That's that's I mean, you're getting a.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Little bit of a dual purpose in that and which
I really like.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
But it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's a lightweight aluminum housing on this thing, but just
another little tool in your toolbox that would be handy.
But yeah, it clips to any pick at any rail
and it's man, it's it's so simple. It's just got
a little bubble level in it. And it comes with
an additional level which you can put on the end
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of your gun or on the top of your your scope.
So if you're you know your level in that scope,
you can have one on your gun attached to a
picrow and then you know, slide the other one on
your scope to make sure it's nice and level, so
your gun's level, your scope's level.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You're all good.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So anyway, that's just a couple of products that we're
talking about and using here around the office. Chris and
I really do like this one, unfortunately, and I hate that.
I love that I do this, but unfortunately I gave
this one away just like thirty minutes ago. I put
it under my desk because I was going to take
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it home. But Tom Gresham is in the office today
and this is something that Tom Gresham would absolutely love,
and so he is going to be the new owner
of a pro torque wrench and pro leveling kit from Vortex.
So you know, you got to take care of Tom
because you know, he enables all of us, so every
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once in a while we can enable him just a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
So that's it for me. Guys.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You know, hey, don't sleep on new products, and definitely
don't turn your back on Bigfoot because that's something that
I would not do. Anyway, that's all for me from
here at guntalk. Keep those muzzles point in a safe
direction and always be on the hunt.