'Self-aiming' rifle turns novices into expert snipers

[akodo]

I dislike any time someone states 'this technology mimics what previously could be accomplished with hours of practice therefore it should be illegal'

I LIKE technology that takes the place of having to spend all the time learning to do it. I much prefer a box of matches to having to rub two sticks together. I think if this country was as anti-gun 100 years ago as it is today people would have been up in arms about scopes in general.

HOWEVER, every technology that is legal to own need not be allowed for all hunting. I think it is good and right that I can own multiple 30 round magazines....but I also think it is good and right to have a law limiting magazine size when hunting.

Who knows, maybe this technology will allow new types of hunting to be developed. Shooting dragonflies at 300 yards?

Now, for how this thing actually works, as I have gleaned from various articles.

You have some sort of secondary device, possibly an Ipad, and the image from the scope is streamed to it. You indicate on that secondary device where you want the bullet to hit. The system then figures out the range to your target and calculates the hold over, looks at wind speed and calculates the drift, etc, and generates a second point...where the scope's crosshairs should be when the bullet is fired for it to hit the desired target.

The user still has to aim the rifle. It becomes like the novice shooter using a scope that has a lot of wobble...his crosshairs are dancing all around, swinging past the bullseye without settling down. Some shooters who can't get steady will instead just yank the trigger as the crosshairs swing by the bull, hoping to fire at the right moment. What this device does is when given the command 'it is okay to fire' waits for the gun to be in the correct position, and fires the instance it is in the correct position.

[Hmac]

Her ya go. This is the poor man's version. And only $70!

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