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Shooting a laser-guided rifle made me feel like a robot
by Timothy J. Seppala
January 9th 2015 at 8:58 pm
By all accounts, I shouldn't have hit the dummy target 300 yards downrange because everything was working against me. For starters, the Las Vegas desert was windy as hell. Factor in that I was shaking thanks to nerves, cold temperatures and the pressure of a camera rolling while I tried something brand-new and you have a recipe for failure. Or should have. While I can barely pull off a headshot in a video game, I nailed one on my first try with TrackingPoint's high-powered, precision-guided rifle. Once the initial wave of "Holy shit!" wore off, something else replaced my elation: I didn't feel I'd earned that bull's-eye because basically all I had to do was pull the trigger. On my way back into Sin City, I couldn't get over just how cold and emotionless that left me feeling.
(Gallery ~ 22 photos) click on link
My experience with guns is limited to plinking beer cans with a .22 or a BB rifle at my parents' cabin in northern Michigan. The difference between that and the shots I took with the TrackingPoint setup, however, is that I feel I've actually earned the privilege of becoming a decent marksman with the former. If I hold the stock higher than the barrel or aim down my pump-rifle's iron sights and sneeze as I pull the trigger, I won't hit the broad side of a barn, let alone an empty Bud Light can.
But I wasn't in the Mitten anymore. I was roughly an hour outside of the Las Vegas city limits at Front Sight Firearms, a gun range and training facility in the middle of the desert. The gun in front of me was a bit more powerful than my old BB rifle and it makes a precision marksman out of literally anyone.
(Video) click on link
By all accounts, I shouldn't have hit the dummy target 300 yards downrange because everything was working against me. For starters, the Las Vegas desert was windy as hell. Factor in that I was shaking thanks to nerves, cold temperatures and the pressure of a camera rolling while I tried something brand-new and you have a recipe for failure. Or should have. While I can barely pull off a headshot in a video game, I nailed one on my first try with TrackingPoint's high-powered, precision-guided rifle. Once the initial wave of "Holy shit!" wore off, something else replaced my elation: I didn't feel I'd earned that bull's-eye because basically all I had to do was pull the trigger. On my way back into Sin City, I couldn't get over just how cold and emotionless that left me feeling.
Gallery | 22 Photos
Tracking Point desert shoot
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My experience with guns is limited to plinking beer cans with a .22 or a BB rifle at my parents' cabin in northern Michigan. The difference between that and the shots I took with the TrackingPoint setup, however, is that I feel I've actually earned the privilege of becoming a decent marksman with the former. If I hold the stock higher than the barrel or aim down my pump-rifle's iron sights and sneeze as I pull the trigger, I won't hit the broad side of a barn, let alone an empty Bud Light can.
But I wasn't in the Mitten anymore. I was roughly an hour outside of the Las Vegas city limits at Front Sight Firearms, a gun range and training facility in the middle of the desert. The gun in front of me was a bit more powerful than my old BB rifle and it makes a precision marksman out of literally anyone.
TrackingPoint isn't your dad's gun manufacturer. Its technological bread and butter is Linux-based "precision-guided firearms," and the outfit's at CES to show off the latest application of the tech: a sniper rifle dubbed the Mile Maker that can hit a target that's a mile away and moving at 30MPH. But don't call it a smart-gun -- those have more to do with gun control and TrackingPoint is proud to support the Second Amendment. I couldn't shoot the Mile Maker, but got to go a few rounds with its AR-556 medium-range rifle.
Continued below:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/09/shooting-a-laser-guided-rifle-made-me-feel-like-a-robot/?icid=maing-grid7|html
Shooting a laser-guided rifle made me feel like a robot
by Timothy J. Seppala
January 9th 2015 at 8:58 pm
By all accounts, I shouldn't have hit the dummy target 300 yards downrange because everything was working against me. For starters, the Las Vegas desert was windy as hell. Factor in that I was shaking thanks to nerves, cold temperatures and the pressure of a camera rolling while I tried something brand-new and you have a recipe for failure. Or should have. While I can barely pull off a headshot in a video game, I nailed one on my first try with TrackingPoint's high-powered, precision-guided rifle. Once the initial wave of "Holy shit!" wore off, something else replaced my elation: I didn't feel I'd earned that bull's-eye because basically all I had to do was pull the trigger. On my way back into Sin City, I couldn't get over just how cold and emotionless that left me feeling.
(Gallery ~ 22 photos) click on link
My experience with guns is limited to plinking beer cans with a .22 or a BB rifle at my parents' cabin in northern Michigan. The difference between that and the shots I took with the TrackingPoint setup, however, is that I feel I've actually earned the privilege of becoming a decent marksman with the former. If I hold the stock higher than the barrel or aim down my pump-rifle's iron sights and sneeze as I pull the trigger, I won't hit the broad side of a barn, let alone an empty Bud Light can.
But I wasn't in the Mitten anymore. I was roughly an hour outside of the Las Vegas city limits at Front Sight Firearms, a gun range and training facility in the middle of the desert. The gun in front of me was a bit more powerful than my old BB rifle and it makes a precision marksman out of literally anyone.
(Video) click on link
By all accounts, I shouldn't have hit the dummy target 300 yards downrange because everything was working against me. For starters, the Las Vegas desert was windy as hell. Factor in that I was shaking thanks to nerves, cold temperatures and the pressure of a camera rolling while I tried something brand-new and you have a recipe for failure. Or should have. While I can barely pull off a headshot in a video game, I nailed one on my first try with TrackingPoint's high-powered, precision-guided rifle. Once the initial wave of "Holy shit!" wore off, something else replaced my elation: I didn't feel I'd earned that bull's-eye because basically all I had to do was pull the trigger. On my way back into Sin City, I couldn't get over just how cold and emotionless that left me feeling.
Gallery | 22 Photos
Tracking Point desert shoot
+ See all 22
My experience with guns is limited to plinking beer cans with a .22 or a BB rifle at my parents' cabin in northern Michigan. The difference between that and the shots I took with the TrackingPoint setup, however, is that I feel I've actually earned the privilege of becoming a decent marksman with the former. If I hold the stock higher than the barrel or aim down my pump-rifle's iron sights and sneeze as I pull the trigger, I won't hit the broad side of a barn, let alone an empty Bud Light can.
But I wasn't in the Mitten anymore. I was roughly an hour outside of the Las Vegas city limits at Front Sight Firearms, a gun range and training facility in the middle of the desert. The gun in front of me was a bit more powerful than my old BB rifle and it makes a precision marksman out of literally anyone.
TrackingPoint isn't your dad's gun manufacturer. Its technological bread and butter is Linux-based "precision-guided firearms," and the outfit's at CES to show off the latest application of the tech: a sniper rifle dubbed the Mile Maker that can hit a target that's a mile away and moving at 30MPH. But don't call it a smart-gun -- those have more to do with gun control and TrackingPoint is proud to support the Second Amendment. I couldn't shoot the Mile Maker, but got to go a few rounds with its AR-556 medium-range rifle.
Continued below:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/09/shooting-a-laser-guided-rifle-made-me-feel-like-a-robot/?icid=maing-grid7|html
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