ON SALE! Rifle That Hits Target Over 10 Football Fields Away

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Tracking Point describes the weapon as a smartgun, with a trigger wired to the scope so that the gun won't fire until it's locked on the target that's been tagged.

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"There are a handful of snipers who can hit a target at 1,000 yards. But now, anybody can do it," he said. "You can put some tremendous capability in the hands of just about anybody, even an untrained shooter."

Indeed, novice shooters from CNNMoney tried the gun and did hit targets 1,000 yards away. What sets the TrackingPoint rifle apart is its high-tech electronic scope that automatically accounts for distance, gravity, wind speed, humidity, the rotation of the Earth and other variables that can influence whether a bullet hits its target. The TrackingPoint scope allows the shooter to "tag" a target by placing a red dot on it within the crosshairs. Even when the safety is off and the shooter's finger pulls the trigger, the rifle will only fire when the crosshairs are locked on the red dot, making it relatively easy for even an inexperienced shooter to hit a target at long range.

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Schauble said his company is on track to sell as many as 500 of them this year, to clients that he describes as "high net worth hunters" who want to kill big game at long range.

LINK:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/-27-500-gun-hits-targets-at-1-000-yards-180751722.html
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Worthy of discussion

[1-Old-Man]

1. There aren't even a handful of people who can do it and this won't increase it any

The problems of hitting a target at 3000 feet have little do with putting a set of crosshairs on a target and have the gun automatically shoot. The problems exist because the air is not still over that entire distance and the movement, temperature, and humidity have a profound effect on where the bullet will actually land - none of which can be sensed by the scope. In truth there are very few "marksmen" who can put a bullet within a 10 inch circle at 1000 yards, let alone at three times that distance.

[Skidmore]

2. Doesn't mean that some gonzo Chuck Norris wannabe won't buy something like this

and take out half of a block full of people trying to earn his bad boy creds. I'm sorry but I really get sick of people never calling the weapons industry on ever better ways of trying to promote people killing other people. These merchants of death are as evil as the mayhem they leave in their wake.

[Recursion]

3. So you're angry that they made a weapon that's less likely to shoot the wrong thing?

[Skidmore]

5. Read my post again.

If the wrong thing happens to be several others not in the line of said gonzo's intended target then it multiplies the mayhem. And the notion that we need one more whizbang gadget added to a stick that propels missiles into another human's body is disgusting. If it is a useless as claimed, then it will not be a weapon of choice for a hunter either.

[NickB79]

9. At $27,000, it's useless even if it works perfectly

If it is a useless as claimed, then it will not be a weapon of choice for a hunter either.

I don't care if I never missed a shot again in my life using that gun, that's out of 99.99% of all hunter's budgets right there, which makes it de facto useless to 99.99% of all hunters.

[hobbit709]

4. At $27,500 it would take a gonzo with some money, that narrows it down a little.

[Skidmore]

6. Right now there are gonzos who appear to be willing to

slap down money on stockpiling weaponry over fixing their houses or attending to the basic needs of their families. There will be gonzos who buy this just to be seen as bad.

[Paladin]

10. +1000. They'll sell every one of these rifles, as quick as they can make them. (nt)

[Travis_0004]

8. Its a 30,000 gun, probably out of the price range of most people

Its also a bolt action with a 5 round magazine. I'm not at all worried about this gun technology.

Also, you realize for 30,000, you could buy 3 fully automatic M16's, so I'm not at all worried about 1 bolt action rifle

[BainsBane]

7. Just the thing for taking out heads of state

The evil of the gun cabal knows no limits.

[DainBramaged]

11. "high net worth hunters" who want to kill big game at long range.

I wonder how they'd do with a knife or axe in hand to claw combat.................

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. As a hunter I don't like this...

A scope is one thing (which many hunting purists won't use), but a scope that essentially takes the shooter out of the equation is just plain wrong. At this point, you may as well just place landmines and wait for the deer to step on them.

Those "high net worth hunters" are probably the same guys who go inside when the temperature dips below 30 degrees.