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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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Compass Alaskan Bear Hunt with EOTech 2011 Texas Pigs and Coyotes with EOTech Sights, Night Vision and Thermal Imaging From L-3, Lots of Hardcore Black Guns, $25,000 OPMOD Revolver, and Mudbugs Iowa Cold, Nikon M-223 on a 12 Gauge, Filled Tags, Butchery, and Food Leupold Antelope Hunt outside Casper Wyoming with CDS Dial Skill My Visit to Leupold and a Tunnel Dream Come True Burris Elk Hunt 2009 See All

>SHOT Show 2010!

Steven K. Ledin, January 15, 2010

The Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) show is in Vegas again this year. Leaving Monday. This is my Superbowl, this is some of what I get paid for. Pressing the flesh, establishing new contacts, and putting faces to names. Some politics. I don’t know how many SHOTs I’ve been to over the last couple of decades, but an awful lot. It’s still kinda fun, but certainly exhausting and tons of work.

A full dozen OP employees will be there this year, the most ever. Buyers, merchandising, executives, and gun monkeys like me.

We’ll do our best for the company and …

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31 Dec

>Happy New Year

Steven K. Ledin, December 31, 2009

Hope Christmas was great, and have a Happy New Year! God bless you and yours!…

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23 Dec

>Merry Christmas with Steve’s Slow-Cook Venison Stew!

Steven K. Ledin, December 23, 2009

Not many foods can thaw a cold winter chill like a hot hearty stew made from meat with an animal you have taken. This is how I built my last batch of elk stew, courtesy of an animal taken this October in Colorado with the Burris company.

Steve’s Slow-Cook Venison Stew:

In a large slow cooker, add the ingredients in the following order:

A few carrots cut into one inch pieces, or baby carrots.

A few ribs of celery in one inch pieces

Several red potatoes cut into one inch chunks

A few parsnips cut into one inch chunks (this

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11 Dec

>Docter Shawn’s Weatherby with Nikon Monarch Riflescope and Leupold Scope Mounting System

Steven K. Ledin, December 11, 2009

A week or so after I fell coming down a mountain on my last elk hunt I discovered I buggered my knee. Wasn’t getting better, so I had to see someone. I filled out the form at the doctor’s office, and in the paperwork under the explanation of how the injury happened, I put “fell while hiking.” When I finally saw the doctor and he asked me exactly what happened, I said “fell while hunting” instead of “fell while hiking.” He looked at me strangely and said, “Hunting, huh? Did you kill anything?” I thought, oh, crap. Here

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09 Dec

>Pearl Harbor Anniversary, BLACKHAWK, Leupold, and Bushnell Weather Stations

Steven K. Ledin, December 9, 2009

December 7th, Pearl Harbor day, was the anniversary of the day I joined the Navy, thirty years ago. Dad was old Navy also. He asked if I had my flag up at home, and the answer was, “Yes, Sir!”. Of course it stays up 365 days a year. Dad was just invited to Washington, DC to tour a bunch of sites with 99 other WWII veterans. He was asked to wear a uniform if he still had one and could. He got into his dress blue top, but had to get his wife’s help getting out of

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