https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHXzgUA2ckc
TrackingPoint is best known for their precision rifles, which use a scope and trigger system that turns long range shooting into a point-and-click video game. They said when they started making the guns that the goal was to have a semi-automatic version as well, and it looks like that time has arrived. TP has just released a video showing off the features of their brand new AR-15 and AR-10 rifle platforms, chambered in 5.56 NATO, 7.62 NATO, and 300 BLK, and it looks pretty good.
The features seem to fall into three categories.
The first “mode” is the gun working like a standard carbine, with the trigger set like a normal AR-15 trigger and the sights fixed in place. I’m not sure how well that will work, with an LCD screen for a rifle scope and all. There has to be some lag in the system, a little bit of time between when the camera sees the image and when the final processed sight picture is displayed on the scope’s monitor, and that is bound to cause missed shots especially on moving targets. We’ll have to get our hands on it to see if it actually is a functional firing mode.
Mode number two is basically identical to the Burris Eliminator: the crosshairs adjust for the given distance and the shooter takes the shot whenever they feel like it. It’s a nice feature, but like I said there’s already a product on the market that performs that function and for a whole heck of a lot less money. As in, I could buy a car with the money I saved running an Eliminator instead.
The final mode is the one that TrackingPoint is famous for, specifically the computer controlled trigger. Tag a target, squeeze the trigger, and when everything is right the gun will touch off the round for you. We’ve seen it work to great effect in a bolt action rifle, but I’m really interested to see how well it works after multiple rounds fired in quick succession heats up the barrel and starts it moving around.
As usual, there’s no price tag on the rifles. But if the bolt action variety is already the price of a Toyota Corolla, then I wouldn’t expect these custom Daniel Defense rifles to be any different.
How exactly do you lose a US GOVT Class 3 weapon?
I manage that program for my department. I manage the 1033 property book. My Chief signs for all 1033 firearms. I issue a signed hand receipt for each one issued and for each one secured in the vault. Double accountability. Only two people (Not even the Chief, have access to the vault)
I can understand one being stolen sometimes.The military looses them all the time, but they know who had it and when it went missing.
There is no perfect way to secure any carried weapon…but missing? Someone failed to do their job. No excuse.
That’s nothing Unified PD from SLC “lost” four registered machineguns of mine while they were in their custody. They didn’t even do a proper inventory for 16 days once they had everything, and damn sure didn’t leave one with the home owner. Nobody in UPD can even tell us where they were kept for those 16days before the other guns were put into UPD’s evidence room. Just gone. No internal investigation of the officers either.
GIve the poor Turk a break. He’s a liberal. Of course he doesn’t think before regurgitating PC drivel. If he did, he wouldn’t be a liberal, now would he.
Of course, the right answer is that in a decent society, mealymouthed liberals would never have to face this situation, because the 6’6″ maniac would be aware that there was a better than 50% chance the guy in the room was something a bit less useless; hence wouldn’t be acting all violently in the first place….
I may have to use this. I was already leaning “loaded handgun” before the end, but, I was “open minded” and I was thinking of the various “diversity” in the choices and the “common sense” solution, like the crazy Moms suggest. Of course, I still went with…(Drumroll…) the loaded handgun. (Ta DA!) I just hope the handgun wasn’t a .25, but at least a snubby with .38+P Hollow points or larger. I wouldn’t want to simply make him more combative. Ideally, a nice .45 ACP or a Dersert Eagle .44. (Well, if we’re going to fantasize!)
Peace
Yep, that little exercise probably increases the cost $500, and 99% of shooters wouldn’t know the difference. And no, that won’t make the difference of one target. It will make the difference of about $500, though, which could be much better spent on targets or part of a tube set (which negates that whole balance exercise, anyway). Gimmick.
How does it lock onto a moving target?
Hey guys i owned a 1945 mosin best $70 gun ever and super accurate maybe i was lucky
The “autodefensas” cannot be trusted to support the government’s favored narcoterrorists of the moment, so they must be disarmed. Got it.
+1000000 DIRK. Not funny or clever. Just troll away.
To quote Jonathon H. …”Seriously? Going around making up arbitrary, unilateral standards such as THAT, not only is a good way to escalate such situations”….. Suggest you read the Constitution Jon. Hint….Article 1, Sec 8.
Aimbot!
PPGMD and John, both cases could be correct, personally I like the ergonomics of the M&P series, but have yet to shoot one.