Smart Shooting Rifle Introduced

View · by **Heffay** on Thu May 16, 2013 6:30 pm

jshuberg wrote:Plus it's one EMP away from being a very expensive club.

EMP weapons are super common among criminals and terrorists. I know I have a few in my closet just in case a sniper with one of these comes within 2000 yards of me.

View · by **Erud** on Thu May 16, 2013 6:33 pm

I think it's a pretty niche market, especially at that price point. I do believe it would take a lot of fun out of shooting. I've spent a lot of time developing long range shooting skill and get a lot of satisfaction out of it. If it were easy from the start, I would have lost interest pretty quickly.

View · by **tman** on Thu May 16, 2013 6:34 pm

jshuberg wrote:It uses an active laser. Not a good choice for a sniper rifle. Plus it's one EMP away from being a very expensive club. Not to say they won't adopt something like this, but it's a fragile and vulnerable technology compared with iron and glass.

Perhaps, but instead of a desginated "squad marksman" who uses a scoped M-14, now you could use this. I can see all kinds of plusses.

View · by **jshuberg** on Thu May 16, 2013 9:03 pm

I see all kinds of dollar signs, and a shooter who is dependent on technology and one particular weapon rather than skill for accuracy. It's a really cool piece of technology, but I don't think it's a great match for military use. Weekend sniper wannabes with money to burn on the other hand.....

View · by **Holland&Holland** on Fri May 17, 2013 6:39 am

jshuberg wrote:. Weekend sniper wannabes with money to burn on the other hand.....

Um, you do realize you are logged in to MNguntalk right?

View · by **Texastransplant** on Fri May 17, 2013 6:57 am

Great! Can't wait for DARPA to mount one of these on a battlefield robot.

/tinfoil hat

View · by **jshuberg** on Fri May 17, 2013 8:54 am

Holland&Holland wrote:Um, you do realize you are logged in to MNguntalk right?

Yeah, but I'd hope that most people here consider shooting to be a skill to learn, not a result to achieve....

View · by **tazdevil** on Fri May 17, 2013 9:52 am

Holland&Holland wrote:
jshuberg wrote:. Weekend sniper wannabes with money to burn on the other hand.....

Um, you do realize you are logged in to MNguntalk right?

You assume any of us have much money? We are gun addicts after all, this thing is a abomination to be abhorred. It must be destroyed. I volunteer for the testing to destroy.

View · by **xd ED** on Fri May 17, 2013 9:54 am

Heffay wrote:
jshuberg wrote:Plus it's one EMP away from being a very expensive club.

EMP weapons are super common among criminals and terrorists. I know I have a few in my closet just in case a sniper with one of these comes within 2000 yards of me.

You got spare batteries for Mr Murphy?

View · by **xd ED** on Fri May 17, 2013 9:57 am

jshuberg wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:Um, you do realize you are logged in to MNguntalk right?

Yeah, but I'd hope that most people here consider shooting to be a skill to learn, not a result to achieve....

^^^^^
On a target range this thing will be the equivalent of the karaoke machine with a voice enhancer.

View · by **tman** on Fri May 17, 2013 11:01 am

xd ED wrote:On a target range this thing will be the equivalent of the karaoke machine with a voice enhancer.

Oooh....a CHICK MAGNET!

View · by **Ironbear** on Fri May 17, 2013 7:09 pm

tman wrote:Just think what it will do for the military's sniper programs. The amount of actual skill needed to snipe long range targets has just dropped by a VERY LARGE amount.

This didn't just come out of the blue. I read a government RFP about 4-5 years ago where they were looking for virtually exactly this. My memory is a little fuzzy on the details, but I recall they wanted something that could eliminate a man-size target at 800 meters on 1st try with near 100% certainty, without specially trained personnel.

View · by **Holland&Holland** on Fri May 17, 2013 7:47 pm

tman wrote:
xd ED wrote:On a target range this thing will be the equivalent of the karaoke machine with a voice enhancer.

Oooh....a CHICK MAGNET!

Yeah, I get that all the time...

View · by **Garret7857** on Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:06 pm

I saw a video of this gun on youtube and these guys are taking out african deer and cows at like 700-12000 yards no problem which would be fun, but after a while I would get bored and want to try to learn to make those shots without the fancy scope... Oh and you have to use the special TrackPoint ammunition with it as well

View · by **Ironbear** on Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:34 pm

Garret7857 wrote:I saw a video of this gun on youtube and these guys are taking out african deer and cows at like 700-12000 yards no problem which would be fun, but after a while I would get bored and want to try to learn to make those shots without the fancy scope... Oh and you have to use the special TrackPoint ammunition with it as well

12,000 yards is a hell of a shot!!! :twisted: