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PRESENTING THE NEW LION BOREALIS 1,150-LUMEN FLASHLIGHT After 6 years of handcrafting the Borealis Rolls Royce, I have stopped making them in favor of the new LION BOREALIS. The new light uses a different and new power source: three newly developed Lithium Ion, fully protected batteries. The new batteries power the 3 ½ amps of the powerful Borealis bulb, and will produce 47 minutes of runtime. Since it is made with the “host” of the 4C format, it is much lighter than the Borealis Rolls Royce, at 12 ¾” long and 19 oz heavy. It uses the same bulb and reflector of the

THE TACTICAL LIGHT, THE DRIVEWAY PATROL AND THE BEARS Hi guys, Been working like a madman for a couple of years, little time to visit or do reviews, besides I am making my own tactical light now, rechargeable and with 350 lumens. I have two lamps for the light, a 1 level 350 lumens to use as a weapon light (I supply the pressure pad switch and the mount) and another lamp with five levels. In a recent revision of the circuit of the 5 level lamp, the lower setting of 50 lumens was increased in run time to 24 hours! So the lamp runs 350 lumens for 2 hours 20 minutes, 175

SCOPES Hi guys, I have been using scopes for forty years, and have had enough experience with them that I decided to post a few lines that may be of help to the new hunter. My friends consider me a little extreme concerning optics and scopes in particular, since my hunting rifles usually have as many as three scopes. That is right! And the reason for that is my fear of Murphy spoiling my hunt. You know what I mean, Murphy’s Law, "if something can go wrong it will?" Also my motto concerning equipment is that two is one and one is none, so based on that premise my rifles have a s

The Vanguard with rubber handle is a common knife worth about $50 USD or less. It is a good working knife. This is another of my good blades The Browning model 65 (one of one thousand) I love those stag handles, and I have several knives with them Detail of the file work at the handle Cheers Watchmaker

KNIVES FOR HUNTING Many of us hunters of long have a love affair with the tool of a successful hunt; the knife. In our minds, we have this idea of the perfect knife that will fit our hand like a glove; that will perform surgery like a scalpel; that will not need to be sharpened ever, and will remove a cape as well as field dress and skin anything from a deer to a moose. In our search for the perfect blade, we accumulate many of them that are probably as good as the best knife ever made, but in our search for Nirvana we keep adding new blades and hoping to do enough hunting to test all

THE BUSHNELL CUSTOM COMPACT 6X BY 25MM BINOCULARS Hi guys, This is for all the old timers that bought small binoculars in the 70’s. This was the most popular and highly regarded binoculars in the decade of the seventies and beyond, five guys in my hunting club had them, I bought one in the middle seventies and another for my wife a couple of years later. Mine had the center screw hinge attachment for the strap and my wife’s was a little more modern with the strap attachments on the side of the body. In the pictures you can see my wife’s binocular with the opt

HOW TO GLASS Well, what now, you just put he binoculars to your eyes and look through them, right? Just in case we have new binocular users here, I am going to explain the mechanics of glassing the right way. Not long ago a new hunter in the family was showing me his new binoculars that I noticed were adjusted in the interpupilary distance with a far greater length that I knew his eyes to be set. When I questioned him if he was not seeing two uncompleted circles when looking through the glasses, he admitted it and was surprised when I told him that the binoculars are supposed to

LEUPOLD KATMAI 6X32 BINOCULARS I must be off my rocker. I have binoculars coming out of my ears and I just went out and ordered another. This time the culprit that captured my heart is the Leupold Wind River Katmai binoculars, a roof prism model that is quite compact and light but offers superior viewing compared to full sized premium binoculars. I had seen them before in catalogues such as Cabela’s and Red Head, but I never got interested because I thought they were only available in 8x32. Having recently bought the Leupold Yosemite 6x30 binoculars, I became interested in seei

LEUPOLD YOSEMITE 6X 30MM PORRO PRISMS BINOCULARS Hi Guys: Some things are changing in the world of optics. It uses to be that you had to spend a good chunk of money to get good optics; after all, it is difficult and requires expensive lenses, expensive anti-reflection treatment, some quality components, and precise work to mount it all and to get the optics to perform as they should. Some optical aberrations and distortions can only be corrected the best possible. It is difficult to make good glasses to deliver a flat picture of good quality when the light ray has to pass through c

Hob&Jill, Quality optics have a lot of expensive glass that correct for aberrations and distortions that your cheaper glasses don't, besides quality manufacturing and attention to detail in aligning optics ensure that you can glass for many hours without getting a headache. Multi coating in the optics let you see into depper shadows and late into dusk when others cheap binoculars have quit. You probably are not interested in the hairs on the deer derriere, but with good glasses you are able to tell if the deer is a trophy and judge how much it will score, with the murky glasses yo

BINOCULARS Hi guys, The big brown truck and the nice man that brings goodies to the house stopped yesterday with a package from Cabela’s. I was deprived from sleep for the five days that it took between order and delivery, but finally the Nikon Monarch ATB 8x40 binoculars are here, and I will sleep soundly tonight. Although I have quite a few binoculars in my safe, I don’t have nearly as many of them as I do flashlights (most of you know me as the crazy guy that owns all those flashlights); but fear not, I am getting there. So it occurred to me that I should make a post abo