Fire and forget rifle.

[Fly320s]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvbyAcYjzlc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It is a self-adjusting scope for conventional rifles and ammunition.  The shooter designates the target through the scope, the scope calculates the needed hold, the rifle fires when the shooter aligns the firing solution with the designated target. Pretty neat.

[vaskidmark]

Just over a month to see what the MSRP is.

I want it, and won't even insist on a pair of moccasins as a deal sweetener.

stay safe.

[brimic]

I think Burris makes something like that already.
http://www.burrisoptics.com/laserscope.html

[Tallpine]

Will it gut and skin your deer for you 

[AmbulanceDriver]

I wonder how it will work for:

A) Moving targets
B) Wind

[Ben]

That's pretty cool, but I sadly have to agree with the likely truth of the first comment to the video:

I wonder how long it'll take the BATF to ban this... Probably in the range of 87 minutes

[brimic]

oops

[Perd Hapley]

Will it gut and skin your deer for you 

Will it co-witness with my iron sights?

[Tallpine]

I have seriously wondered about some sort of gyroscopic dampening device 

[zahc]

They used to have (maybe still do) gyroscope dampers for cameras, so that you can hand-hold a camera from an airplane or something and still get steady images. If you can find one, they have a convenient 1/4" tripod thread; I'm sure you could rig something up for a gun.

The auto-firing thing sounds like a real safety problem, not to mention the legalities. I'm very hesitant to allow electronics into guns, not for technical reasons but for legal reasons. I saw what happened to paintball when the electronic markers caught on. The definition of 'semi-auto' became very very grey, to say the least. An electronic trigger implies a switch. Everyone knows that switches bounce and need either electrical or software debouncing. The implementation of that algorithm leaves a whole lot to interpretation. Software is capable of detecting and queuing every switch bounce, and waiting until the action is ready to fire again and then immediately doing so as long as there is a trigger pull in the queue. It's very common in paintball software to do just that. Will the BATF consider each switch bounce 'a trigger activation'? Even with mechanical guns, there is always a delay between the trigger actuation and the firing of the gun. What happens when we can make that delay as long as we want via software?

[Tallpine]

They used to have (maybe still do) gyroscope dampers for cameras, so that you can hand-hold a camera from an airplane or something and still get steady images. If you can find one, they have a convenient 1/4" tripod thread; I'm sure you could rig something up for a gun.

...

Quite a bit of mass difference between a rifle and a camera. 

Everyone knows that switches bounce and need either electrical or software debouncing.

I doubt that quite everyone knows that 

I'm not an EE but I happen to know that from working on controls software.

[zahc]

Quite a bit of mass difference between a rifle and a camera.  

Maybe between a rifle and a modern wimpy miniature digital camera. The one I saw was on a Pentax 6x7 with a 70mm roll film back. With a big lens, I'm sure it weighed 6+ pounds.

[Tallpine]

Maybe between a rifle and a modern wimpy miniature digital camera. The one I saw was on a Pentax 6x7 with a 70mm roll film back. With a big lens, I'm sure it weighed 6+ pounds.

Okay 

An adapter to mount on a front sling post     

[zahc]

Well there's always this:

http://www.bushhawk.com/

[kgbsquirrel]

Any electrically actuated firearm is declared a machine gun by the ATF. *expletive deleted*ing fascist twits.

[dogmush]

Any electrically actuated firearm is declared a machine gun by the ATF. *expletive deleted* fascist twits.

I thought that as well, but given as how this is a bolt action rifle, I might deliver one to the tech branch and ask them to get it to fire two rounds on one pull.  (I'm assuming the manufacturer has some kind of disconnect built in)

[Fly320s]

Whatever happened to that hunting ranch in TX that wanted to allow people to hunt via an internet connection?

[MechAg94]

I didn't think this scope fired the gun, but just told you when you were on.  I was wondering if this thing had some sort of heart beat stabilization.  Also, It would seem to me that you would need to load up a batch foe ammo identically for powder and bullet weight and then somehow teach the scope the right trajectory for that ammo batch.  Maybe I am missing something.  Any thoughts?

[kgbsquirrel]

I thought that as well, but given as how this is a bolt action rifle, I might deliver one to the tech branch and ask them to get it to fire two rounds on one pull.  (I'm assuming the manufacturer has some kind of disconnect built in)

Knowing some of the BS they've pulled in the testing office before I wouldn't be surprised if "managed to get it to fire two rounds" was interpreted as "lets add an additional armature and servos to operate the bolt handle and then rebuild the whole system so it pulls the trigger again despite not being originally built to be able to and then charge an innocent citizen with manufacturing a machine gun."

(Just a little bit bitter. Just a little.)

[freakazoid]

I thought I remember seeing an article somewhere about something like that built for the Barret .50 cals. It didn't fire automatically though.

[kgbsquirrel]

I will say that as a stand alone unit, a quality optic combined with a laser range finder, barometer, thermometer and hygrometer would be sweet. Zero the scope like normal at a known distance/elevation/temperature/humidity and program those variables into the ballistic calculation system. Now when out in the field, point your crosshairs at your target, hit a button for determining the range, then have the system automatically calculate the drop based on all the above instruments, and then have it adjust adjust an overlaid second reticle to exact correct elevation point.

[Fly320s]

I thought I remember seeing an article somewhere about something like that built for the Barret .50 cals. It didn't fire automatically though.

Barret has the BORS scope. Similar to this, but it only calculates the drop.

[sanglant]

Knowing some of the BS they've pulled in the testing office before I wouldn't be surprised if "managed to get it to fire two rounds" was interpreted as "lets add an additional armature and servos to operate the bolt handle and then rebuild the whole system so it pulls the trigger again despite not being originally built to be able to and then charge an innocent citizen with manufacturing a machine gun."

(Just a little bit bitter. Just a little.)

or just say it did and not release the test methods.

[Jamie B]

"Just set it, and forget it!"

[HankB]

Any electrically actuated firearm is declared a machine gun by the ATF.

Not yet they haven't . . . if you know otherwise, please direct me to the ATF's determination that the Remington Model 700 E-tronix is now considered to be a machine gun.