Remington is coming out with their 20/20 line of rifles at the show, which includes an AR-15 or two as well as the usual bolt action rifles. Not to be out-done, TrackingPoint has just announced that they’ll be rolling out three AR-15 rifles in 5.56, 7.62 (x39 presumably, but they didn’t say) and my favorite 300 BLK. The rifles will run about $9,500, which is nearly half the price of an original TrackingPoint rifle. The original plan was to introduce a way to track and shoot at multiple targets when the AR-15 was introduced, but that seems to have been canned as the video only shows one tag and one firing. We’ll see more at SHOT Show, but make the jump for the bumf.
Three new precision guided firearms allow the novice shooter to engage long range targets with semi-automatic rifle speed.
TrackingPoint™, creator of the world’s first Precision Guided Firearm (PGF) system, today announced the debut of the TrackingPoint 500 Series ARs for the modern sporting rifle market at ShowStoppers @ CES 2014 in Las Vegas. The three PGF rifles, offered in 7.62, .300 BLK and 5.56 calibers, incorporate the company’s ground breaking Tag Track Xact technology, accurately locking onto and hitting moving targets at distances up to 500 yards.
With stabilized target selection, target tracking and guided firing the 500 Series semi-automatic AR products enable anyone to be an expert marksman out to the 500 yard effective range of the firearm, even from difficult firing positions, such as kneeling, standing or even lying beneath an automobile.
“TrackingPoint is excited to be able to expand and adapt its TTX technology for the AR semi-automatic market. For the first time, AR enthusiasts will be able to make fast and accurate shots on moving targets out to five football fields away,” said John Lupher, TrackingPoint CEO. “We expect not only strong demand for the 500 Series AR products, but also a growing demand for our technology across the industry.”
Introductory pricing of the 500 Series models begin at $9,950. Orders are currently being taken for TrackingPoint AR products, with delivery starting in October, 2014. You can apply to purchase the new product at tracking-point.com/apply-now
As a libertarian I have a set of core values that are split across both parties. I came to libertarianism from liberalism and so I really get grumpy hearing the hardcore liberal bashing in some circles. To me it grates just as badly as hearing liberals go on about gun nuts. Truth is, both sides are made up of human beings, largely good hearted and reasonable, who think they are fighting the good fight. When we attack eachother we just serve to make our side seem even more obviously made up exclusively of crazy jerks.
I got into guns the same year I voted for Barack Obama in my first presidential election. Thankfully I was able to ignore the politics of many of my fellow hobbyists and now I’m used to brushing off both parties’ silliness, but if you want to turn people away from guns for whom the hobby may have been a gateway into seeing the value in other conservative ideas… this sprt of thing is a great way to go about it.
Your experience almost perfectly matches mine, except that these days I find there is a LOT less about republicans that pisses me off, whereas nearly everything liberals say now drives me into a fit of rage.
I’m totally OK with trash-talking modern liberals. I find them to be an absolutely detestable group.
The only time I get as close to tooth-gnashing over what republicans say is when they start to bust out the religion card as a means to judge people’s worth and quality, or the use of Bible passages to form foreign policy – i.e. US’ unwavering support of whatever Israel wants, just because the Bible says Israel has to be there for the second coming to happen.
I used to think I was a liberal, but Obama and modern democrats helped me to realize I was a libertarian who just didn’t know it yet.
In all seriousness, save your life, save the lives of others if need be. Work out the details later.
Notes and corrections:
The grips are probably universal. Check the inside left one, there should be a cutout to fit the retrofit frame mounted safety on the imported milsurp M57’s.
The magazines are not the same, there is actually a spacer in the magazine well to handle the shorter (front to back) M70A magazine. M57 magazines will not fit. Century is supposed to eventually import spare magazines.
Zastava actually makes new M57A’s with the same slide safety.
The magazine safety is a leaf spring that blocks the trigger. It’s easy to remove.
As to the weight, I suspect it is heavy enough to hold up to a steady diet of +P+ while generating acceptable recoil and still being light enough for comfortable carry.
I think the slide is meant to run with grease.
The magazines are not intended to drop out on their own when you hit the release. The ones I have handled come out with a gentle pull.
I think the point of impact is supposed to be covered by the front sight, which is also difficult to center. That might explain your accuracy issue. Either that, or somebody at the factory mistakenly set a batch for 7.62×25.
What kind of idiot tries to rob an Italian restaurant called Uncle Tony’s?
I grew up in Rhode Island. Miscreants were taught at an early age to never rob an Italian restaurant or break into a house if the last name on the mailbox ended in a vowel. I grew up in a nice semi rural, low crime area, but there are only two houses on my parents street that have never been broken into in the 50 years they’ve lived there. My parents house (we’re Portuguese, but the last name still ends in a vowel) and the folks across the street…the Ortoliva’s. Coincidence?
Hot damn, now that’s a journalist.
I am Black and a proud LIFE MEMBER but it was sad at the convention in STL in 2012 to only see a few dozen of the tribe. Where is the NRA Director of Minority Outreach??
BTW – the 2014 convention is in Indianapolis, not too far from Shannon Watts’ home, I mean the MAIG wholly-owned subsidiary MDA’s corporate HQ. Just sayin . . . 🙂
What a useless video, apparently it can be carried up some stairs. If you are using an ar at short range and have time to put the crosshairs on your target and hit a button to tag it and then reacquire said target to let the scope tell you when to fire, why didnt you just put the crosshairs on the target and pull the trigger the first time and save yourself the trouble. I see this as a desperate attempt for tracking point to make their product more relevant and less of a gadget with no real need.
Now when they tie it together with thermal imaging so you can tag multiple unseen bad guys, then I could see a use.
I thought I was the only one who didn’t understand why shooting at first acquisition didn’t work as well as tagging. Also, if your tag is off, so will be your shot…or am I missing some piece of the magic?