Libtards® will fear this! Tracking point XS1

[Dustbuster]

This is just too cool, out of my price range, but as soon as i hit the lottery...........

 

http://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/top-five-shot-show-highlights/

 

Coolest New Thing I’ll Never Own Award: TrackingPoint XS1 Precision Guided Firearm System

TrackingPoint is a company that’s been in the news a lot over the last year because they make the kind of awesome product the media just loves to hate. The TrackingPoint smart rifle is probably the coolest technology I’ve ever seen, but it terrifies a lot of people because it combines two of our society’s most irrational fears; guns and computers.  Basically, the TrackingPoint system takes all of the opportunity for human error out of long range shooting. A computer in the scope tells you where to point the rifle and then fires for you when it’s in just the right spot.

TrackingPoint has a ton of excellent and informative videos about their technology on YouTube, but here’s the basic layman’s breakdown of how it works:

1. Aim the reticle where you want the bullet to go.
2. Press the red button mounted on the front of the trigger guard to “tag” the target. A red dot appears on your target.
3. The TrackingPoint scope does things with math and lasers and stuff. Almost immediately, the reticle moves to adjust for bullet drop, wind, incline, movement, and other science stuff I don’t understand.
4. Move the rifle until the reticle is close to your tagged target again.
5. Press and hold the trigger. The reticle turns red.
6. The instant you move the rifle so the center of the reticle meets the tag, the electronic trigger is activated and the trigger fires.
7. Congratulations! You are now a marksman!

A representative from TrackingPoint walked me through the above steps at demo day at SHOT Show. With the .300 Win Mag bolt gun they had the TrackingPoint rig mounted to, I was able to nail a steel target at 960 yards away. That’s despite high wind, a bullet drop of nearly 20 feet, and my never having fired a rifle at anything even remotely close to that range before. Everything I was seeing through the scope was simultaneously beamed to an iPad, so we caught the whole thing on camera:

[JohnC]

To me, this is a gimmick..... :lol:

 

And I'm one who loves technology and most of the time I'm an early adopter of new techy stuff.

 

But.....

 

If I'm going to waste the time pressing a buttom to place a marker/dot where I want the bullet to hit, I'm just going to pull the trigger instead and get the kill asap.

 

It might help somewhat it if was a moving target, but then you still got to bring the crosshairs to the marker before it will fire, so if you can do that, you still don't need this.

 

Aside from that, when they make it like a guided missile where you put a marker on it and the bullet will travel, while making corrections, and then hit the target, that is when it will be worth the money. :up:

[tnguy]

What would be nice to see would be a rifle with a gyro-stabilized barrel. Get the barrel pointed in the right direction then tweak with a thumb-operated joystick.

 

Or maybe just something like the steadicam technology.

Edited February 5, 2014 by tnguy

[TrickyNicky]

To me, this is a gimmick..... :lol:

And I'm one who loves technology and most of the time I'm an early adopter of new techy stuff.

But.....

If I'm going to waste the time pressing a buttom to place a marker/dot where I want the bullet to hit, I'm just going to pull the trigger instead and get the kill asap.

It might help somewhat it if was a moving target, but then you still got to bring the crosshairs to the marker before it will fire, so if you can do that, you still don't need this.

Aside from that, when they make it like a guided missile where you put a marker on it and the bullet will travel, while making corrections, and then hit the target, that is when it will be worth the money. :up:

Valid point on moving targets. Can it track them or are you stuck shooting where something was 3 seconds ago or restarting the process or whatever?

I think its neat and wouldn't mind having one, though not for even 1/10th what they cost. I do think it's basically cheating to have the gun shoot itself at the designated spot. The automatic scope calibration is neat though, just would want to leave some of the human error potential intact. Edited February 5, 2014 by TrickyNicky

[CM1021]

These came out last year and I think it is cheating. Really the only thing the human is doing is "marking" the target. They were showing this used on hunts in Africa. What happens when the animal moves. You have to re mark the target. And you have no control over the trigger. Paper punching it's probably great for a new shooter, but for law enforcement, mil, or hunting there's way too many variables for it to catch on. It will give a lot of people a false sense of their limits.

[Chris]

Or, you know, you could just learn to shoot.

[nightrunner]

I think the R&D would have been better spent on making a bullet that corrects itself inflight according to gps marker

[StPatrick]

I think the R&D would have been better spent on making a bullet that corrects itself inflight according to gps marker

 

The technology for doing something like that in a .30 caliber size simply doesn't exist today.  It's been proven already for artillery rounds, but they're big, they explode, and have long times of flight for communication / correction.  IIRC, there is work being done on something like what you mentioned in .50 BMG.  The advantage there is that a .50 can give up half its terminal effects for onboard chips and guidance and still have more than enough ass behind it to wreck Johnny Taliban's day at 1000m.

[nightrunner]

Yeah, I was envisioning a .50BMG round. At .50/.338 ranges you have enough time to make minor corrections and should have enough case volume to house the guidance system. Problem is finding a way to "tag" a person or object that moves during flight time

[Dustbuster]

Might be good for varmint hunters,and if ya got money to burn.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.

[tnguy]

Meh, if you're going to go that way, you're probably better off going for gyrojet type rounds (per Runaway)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/