I just spent two days with the guys from Tracking Point. While there are certainly issues to be worked out, if you ask me you are looking at the future of sniper systems. The system essentially eliminates two variables in the shooting equation, ballistic solution and shooter error. Once the tag is placed on the target, the striker will not fall until the alignment is correct. You can't flinch, make a bad press, etc. You can only really screw up the shot by a bad wind call or the inability to hold the tag point for 1/8 sec or so.
We engaged targets from 300 to 750 with one shot each, the only misses were on day two in the afternoon when we had 15-18 mph gusting winds, and then it was only targets past 500 that had a miss.
The scope is no longer a simple optical device. It's a 35x lens with a CCD camera and organic display. The reticle is drawn on the screen, and thus has no real limit on travel, save field of view at the elevation angle required to get the bullet to the target. The precision of the aiming point and reticle movement is at the pixel level, far beyond even 1/8 MOA increments. Since it is native 35x, the 6-35 zoom is smooth and free of the 'jaggies'. The image processing software nearly eliminate mirage effects and can only get better. The integrated rangefinder had no problems with man sized (18"x24") targets at 1K. The solution takes all ballistic factors into account 54 time per second. You can tag the target, roll 20 degrees right and when the reticle intersects the tag, ding, you hit. Ian Harrison whacked a 1 MOA dot on steel at 790 yards twice in a row from unsupported kneeling, no sling. It records the shot to an MP4 file, and you can stream live to an IPad or IPhone via WiFi, so you see what the shooter sees.
Are there some limitations and issues? Sure, what Ver 1.0 of anything is perfect. They seem very receptive to feedback and I'm sending a list of mods I'd like to see in the system. There is a certain learning curve for shooters used to conventional systems, but it's not complicated, just different. Tag the target using the dot reticle and button at the front of the trigger guard. When the tag point look right on the target, press and hold the trigger. You can yank the snot out of it, whatever, it matters not. A red X reticle with small open circle appears. Move than onto the tag point. When the circle is on the dot, the rifle fires, alignment is always within .2 MOA.
Compared to the guided projectile project, this is the next big thing, and I'd say they are way ahead of that.
Keep an eye on this, it's going to be pretty interesting.
We engaged targets from 300 to 750 with one shot each, the only misses were on day two in the afternoon when we had 15-18 mph gusting winds, and then it was only targets past 500 that had a miss.
The scope is no longer a simple optical device. It's a 35x lens with a CCD camera and organic display. The reticle is drawn on the screen, and thus has no real limit on travel, save field of view at the elevation angle required to get the bullet to the target. The precision of the aiming point and reticle movement is at the pixel level, far beyond even 1/8 MOA increments. Since it is native 35x, the 6-35 zoom is smooth and free of the 'jaggies'. The image processing software nearly eliminate mirage effects and can only get better. The integrated rangefinder had no problems with man sized (18"x24") targets at 1K. The solution takes all ballistic factors into account 54 time per second. You can tag the target, roll 20 degrees right and when the reticle intersects the tag, ding, you hit. Ian Harrison whacked a 1 MOA dot on steel at 790 yards twice in a row from unsupported kneeling, no sling. It records the shot to an MP4 file, and you can stream live to an IPad or IPhone via WiFi, so you see what the shooter sees.
Are there some limitations and issues? Sure, what Ver 1.0 of anything is perfect. They seem very receptive to feedback and I'm sending a list of mods I'd like to see in the system. There is a certain learning curve for shooters used to conventional systems, but it's not complicated, just different. Tag the target using the dot reticle and button at the front of the trigger guard. When the tag point look right on the target, press and hold the trigger. You can yank the snot out of it, whatever, it matters not. A red X reticle with small open circle appears. Move than onto the tag point. When the circle is on the dot, the rifle fires, alignment is always within .2 MOA.
Compared to the guided projectile project, this is the next big thing, and I'd say they are way ahead of that.
Keep an eye on this, it's going to be pretty interesting.
