EDgun Leshiy's Best of 2018 - Pest Control War

[edgunleshiy]

2018 was a monster year within my ongoing Pest Control war! However, the EDgun Leshiy and her siblings... The Veles, R5M, and Leyla were up to the challenge.

ATN makes a quick release mount that holds zero perfectly... this allows me to just simply swap the ATN X Sight 4K Pro 3-14x from gun to gun as needed. It takes less than 60 seconds, including the profile change. 

2018 also brought the creation of the EDgun Leshiy YouTube Channel. Like many of you, I was battling my own private pest war, but the ATN gave me to film it unlike any other scope cam setup. Being a creative type person, I decided to document the war.

I felt people could relate, and would perhaps enjoy the quality of the footage. What I didn't expect was this... whoah!

So... thanks for subscribing, and watching... I'm happy you're enjoying the content... 2019 is just around the corner, and I have some fun things planned to enhance the experience

Before we celebrate the start of a new year, lets look back on what was my epic battle with these critters whom are destroying my property. This Best of 2018 video is all squirrels... they are the root of the problem, so I focused just on them. Also... I needed to narrow down the footage somehow anyways, or this would have been an hour long!

https://youtu.be/HQvWtuffV34



For Full details on each gun and setup, go here: ​Details on each EDgun used within this channel


Happy Holidays,

Tim

 

[edgunleshiy]

Woah... those images are BIG! Apologies. Michael, heads up to your Dev team... happy to help

 

[Bob_O]

Superb video!! Man that R5 is nice.

 

[crittahitta]

Once again an excellent video. Thanks. I would love to try one of the ATN scopes but im nervous due to all the negative comments. Yours seems to do very well. 

It is amazing that you have so many critters by you. I cant imagine what it was like before you starting taking them out. Reminds me of the PeeWee Herman movie when he lights the match on the deserted highway and there are a million animals next to him. Happy New Year and keep them coming.

 

[Michael]

Woah... those images are BIG! Apologies. Michael, heads up to your Dev team... happy to help

Tim you are one funny dude. You've got some mad skills & I found it very entertaining.

What size files are your pics?

I've got some images (12mb 6000x3376) that show great detail on my Macbook but when I upload them to AGN they lose a lot of quality due to the cropping / resizing parameters that are set.

 

[Michael]

Oh & I forgot to ask... do you do the "zoom in / follow pellet" to the target in post editing? It's neat, but I'd rather see less zoomed in & more image quality if thats possible. I've been thinking about an ATN. Thanks

 

[Hekk187]

Great Video!!...Love your sense of humor..

 

[BeemanR7]

Amazing production! Can't wait to see your new improvements. 

 

[edgunleshiy]

Woah... those images are BIG! Apologies. Michael, heads up to your Dev team... happy to help

Tim you are one funny dude. You've got some mad skills & I found it very entertaining.

What size files are your pics?

I've got some images (12mb 6000x3376) that show great detail on my Macbook but when I upload them to AGN they lose a lot of quality due to the cropping / resizing parameters that are set.

Thanks Michael! We've run into this before... the issue is cameras like the iPhone take giant photos. The ones above were all shot with my iPhone.

What we did was allow users to determine %'s as size. So when an image pops loads you can simply say I want it 50% of the available screen size, etc. This keeps it really simple, and mobile friendly. It looks like you already force that in mobile, as it looks great there. I'll write you offline. Happy to help. 

t

 

[edgunleshiy]

Oh & I forgot to ask... do you do the "zoom in / follow pellet" to the target in post editing? It's neat, but I'd rather see less zoomed in & more image quality if thats possible. I've been thinking about an ATN. Thanks

yes... post production editing. I normally only do it once or twice when the lighting works well (which keeps the image super crisp). Got a little carried away with it on the best of video... oh well. Thanks for watching... glad you enjoyed it.

Cheers,

t

 

[edgunleshiy]

Thanks guys... appreciate the kind words! I enjoy making them, so I'll keep them coming. I have a streamlight coming today to super charge these glow pellets. Will be a fun video soon... I'll include some best practices on some mistakes I've made making them.

Cheers, and happy holidays! 

 

[edgunleshiy]

Once again an excellent video. Thanks. I would love to try one of the ATN scopes but im nervous due to all the negative comments. Yours seems to do very well. 

It is amazing that you have so many critters by you. I cant imagine what it was like before you starting taking them out. Reminds me of the PeeWee Herman movie when he lights the match on the deserted highway and there are a million animals next to him. Happy New Year and keep them coming.

don't read too much into those early negative reviews... not that they aren't valid, but just not relevant anymore IMO. The issues have largely been dealt with, and they are back to introducing new and improved stuff vs bug fixes. There were a few scopes that I'm aware of with major hardware flaws, but ATN dealt with that in every instance I was aware of... which was a lot as people thought I worked there lol. I got a lot of messages ha! I knew what I was getting into being an early adopter, so my tolerance for their issues was at appropriate levels. I think some folks shouldn't have purchased so early... especially given ATN's history of early firmware releases. Not defending them... some of that early stuff was total sh!t. They were just overwhelmed, and had no clue how to communicate... but have really turned it around. 

The firmware had a rocky start... but the last 2 updates have been rock solid. They just rolled out the range finder support, and although an airgun specific profile is not ready yet... the G1 works fine. Range and the scope corrects POI at zero. you just hold crosshairs. For pest control it's amazing. I understand why people might throw their arms up for competitions, but that's not what this is for. This for punching holes in critters with precision.

I think you're safe to buy if you're in the market.

Cheers,

T

 

[crittahitta]

Thanks.

 

[Michael]

Woah... those images are BIG! Apologies. Michael, heads up to your Dev team... happy to help

Tim you are one funny dude. You've got some mad skills & I found it very entertaining.

What size files are your pics?

I've got some images (12mb 6000x3376) that show great detail on my Macbook but when I upload them to AGN they lose a lot of quality due to the cropping / resizing parameters that are set.

Thanks Michael! We've run into this before... the issue is cameras like the iPhone take giant photos. The ones above were all shot with my iPhone.

What we did was allow users to determine %'s as size. So when an image pops loads you can simply say I want it 50% of the available screen size, etc. This keeps it really simple, and mobile friendly. It looks like you already force that in mobile, as it looks great there. I'll write you offline. Happy to help. 

t

Not sure I want to "offer" sizes as everyone would probably go as big as they can. Let me know the file sizes you used in the pics above & I'll have them tweak the resizing parameters. Better yet email me the full size pics so I can use them as examples. I've got some big pictures (33mb 5861x3907) that are apparently outside of my parameters because they won't even load.

Thanks Tim