338 Lapua & Jet fighter optical sighting system and you have...

Looks cool but it's taking away the fun of shooting. It looks to me like an automatic transmission for the car, it could be faster than manual, but the manual is so much more engaging.

I'll stick with my bolt actions and scopes for now, or at least until I can buy guided laser guns
 
i can see its use. but likely not for a for fun shooter. more for someone that needs to make a first round kill. even then i wonder if it takes into account wind or not. likely not.
 
That right there is cool. Wondered how long until a fully integrated system like this would take. I know with the Barrett firing computer out to modify certain scopes, that it would only be a matter of time before a fully integrated targeting system would come out - I like the whole "squeeze the trigger and it won't fire until the optimal alignment is achieved". Takes away the biggest factor which is that trigger.
 
Just think ..now you can be in a standing position next to someone using a $1000 bench rest along with rear bags, controlling their breathing in prone position or sitting at a bench and smoke em .... or drop an antelope at 800 yards while they are running .... maybe Im just dreaming ... but there was a time when someone Charlie Chaplin said Movies are a fad, Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. A bank manager told Henry Ford's lawyer the automobile is just a passing fad - horses are here to stay ...but the lawyer invested $5000 and later sold his stock for 12.5 million ....while the president of Digital Equipment Corp once said - who would want or need a computer in their home ....
 
A couple issues I see,

1. Wind Compensation - How would that work?
2. Non-static targets - Such as Deer, would that work?
3. The apparent need to have some freaky trigger installed on your firearm, further increasing the cost.
4. Holding the trigger, and the gun firing when it wants to. I can foresee liabilities in regards to dynamic situations where the situation changes (targets moving, #####-crossing paths) faster than the operator can recognize and release the trigger.
5. Cost?
 
Moose308 said:
A couple issues I see,

1. Wind Compensation - How would that work?
2. Non-static targets - Such as Deer, would that work?
3. The apparent need to have some freaky trigger installed on your firearm, further increasing the cost.
4. Holding the trigger, and the gun firing when it wants to. I can foresee liabilities in regards to dynamic situations where the situation changes (targets moving, #####-crossing paths) faster than the operator can recognize and release the trigger.
5. Cost?
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Optimists built the airplane while pessimists built the parachute .. but Im glad we have both :stirthepot2:
 
Yep.

As a tool guy myself, we are always trying to develop tools that will do a tradesman's thinking for him...and when we do, nothing good comes of it. A tradesman is no different from a marksman - the fact is that the man that wants the tool to do his thinking for him is lost if that tool ever fails.

There is only one way to deal with poor marksmanship and that is practice. Nothing replaces basic skills.
 
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