Ballistic Subject Matter Expert needed

[zeroverfied]

I'm referring to the entire system marketed by the website you linked to. Your system appears to be an unnecessarily technical, complicated, and expensive method of sighting in a rifle. And for what? I am aware of no competent marksman who can't get zeroed in a few minutes for price of a handful of rounds. And since your system still requires confirmation by shooting a few rounds, what benefit does it bring for the price?

Absent a hardware problem, if someone can't get on paper and dialed in within a reasonable amount of time (let's say, whatever amount time it takes to unbox your system, read its manual, set it up, and figure it out), then they probably shouldn't be at the range without someone who knows what they are doing. And if that incompetent shooter can't do it the traditional way, what makes you think they can do it when they add the complications of your system to it?

Getting sighted in just doesn't seem to be a problem for anyone I know or have heard of.

The goodness is not that it is just a boresight system. It is a predictive system. Any system that predicts has to have a point of departure, and for this system, it is the rifle chamber. Once you have boresight, you can add the factors that affect a trajectory and build a zero.

Thank you for the feedback!

 

[JCS 4052]

If this was priced low enough I’d be interested just for the potential time savings and ability to get a rifle not too far off without ever hitting the range. Especially if you were building rifles for customers it would be nice to get 2 or 3 rifles close before ever hitting the range and then getting the final zero in one range trip all that much quicker. The trick would be that it would have to be fairly inexpensive. With the price of technology decreasing as much as it is, that goal might not be that far fetched. If this was something I could buy for $100, I’d pick one up, but if this was priced at like $800 or more it would not be anywhere near valuable enough to me to be able to justify such an expense. Basically if this was priced in the ballpark of existing analog bore sighting devices, it could be a winner, just not something that I see as a product that would make anyone rich. I’m not suggesting that this is some get rich quick scheme or anything like that, just expressing my opinion. Either way, good luck.

 

[zeroverfied]

Understand. Two price points are available: ZV Lite, priced under $100, and ZV Pro, priced under $300. Analog boresight, whether optical or laser, has nowhere to go in terms of innovation. ZV is digital and resides on the phone, backed up to the cloud. ZV Lite will boresight, record zero, and recall zero for verification, and ZV Pro does this, in addition to building a predictive zero.

 

[JCS 4052]

Understand. Two price points are available: ZV Lite, priced under $100, and ZV Pro, priced under $300. Analog boresight, whether optical or laser, has nowhere to go in terms of innovation. ZV is digital and resides on the phone, backed up to the cloud. ZV Lite will boresight, record zero, and recall zero for verification, and ZV Pro does this, in addition to building a predictive zero.

I’d definitely be interested in looking closer at those price points. Honestly, I think the ZV lite would do everything I would want and isn’t crazy different in price from an analog bore sighting tool. I truly wish you luck and hope you’re able to make it to market soon.

 

[chevy_man]

My goal is for all military personnel
to have a predicted zero before going to the range.

Well, good luck!

The average grunt can and will completely screw it up, and they'll be back at the "shoot then adjust" method pretty quick.

This does seem like something more along the lines of artillery. There's just no need for it with the amount of ammo at a soldiers disposal.

 

[chevy_man]

If this was priced low enough I’d be interested just for the potential time savings and ability to get a rifle not too far off without ever hitting the range. Especially if you were building rifles for customers it would be nice to get 2 or 3 rifles close before ever hitting the range and then getting the final zero in one range trip all that much quicker. The trick would be that it would have to be fairly inexpensive. With the price of technology decreasing as much as it is, that goal might not be that far fetched. If this was something I could buy for $100, I’d pick one up, but if this was priced at like $800 or more it would not be anywhere near valuable enough to me to be able to justify such an expense. Basically if this was priced in the ballpark of existing analog bore sighting devices, it could be a winner, just not something that I see as a product that would make anyone rich. I’m not suggesting that this is some get rich quick scheme or anything like that, just expressing my opinion. Either way, good luck.

My local gun shop uses a $50 laser every time they mount a scope. It puts people on paper at 100 every time.