Products I wish someone made...

[Mtn.man]

snipers have spotters, that lug around all that equipment.

[Mtn.man]

personally I like Bill Murray's tactic for P-dogs. LOL

[Troublco]

I want to get one of those golf ball launchers that goes on in place of the flash hider, a couple hundred rounds of blanks, and a bunch of old golf balls and go practice mortaring a dog town. Nothing but good old Kentucky windage. And I'll bet a direct hit would be a sight to see!

[Great-Kazoo]

http://www.burrisoptics.com/laserscope.html

[GreenScoutII]

Sounds like you want to spend thousands more dollars on equipment and expensive ammo to hax prairie dogs and take all the fun out of it. What you are asking for is basically an auto aim hack. I think it'd be cool at first, but if you always hit the dogs, then it will become boring (and you'll run out of prairie dogs. Might I suggest that you purchase a video game console and a game like Modern Warfare 2 that has awesome sniper stages? Will save you a lot of money and it's never cold and you aren't looked down on when you drink heavily at the same time.

When I want to blast the crap out of stuff, I turn on my Wii and go hunting or play Link's Crossbow Training. :cheers:

Aw Stu, you're taking all the fun out of this for me!

(shrug).. I guess I'll have to go work on my marksmanship now....

[BigBear]

I want to get one of those golf ball launchers that goes on in place of the flash hider, a couple hundred rounds of blanks, and a bunch of old golf balls and go practice mortaring a dog town. Nothing but good old Kentucky windage. And I'll bet a direct hit would be a sight to see!

That reminds me!! We all know what a "potatoe" gun is right? My dad had some friends way back who built a mini potatoe gun out of PVC pipe. They were field arty guys in TX when Dad was still there in CID. Anyways, this little mortar looking thing would launch tennis balls at PD towns and actually blow up! They would cut a one inch gap in the tennis ball, load it with something, place it in the launcher, put some hairpsray in the bottom, light it with a match and fire it. When it hit the ground, it would actually explode!! Left like a inch deep and 4-6 inch wide type crater. Very fun. No, I have no idea/recollection what they put in the tennis balls. Good memories!!!

[BigBear]

personally I like Bill Murray's tactic for P-dogs. LOL

Don't think I've heard this. Enlighten me please Sir.

[Irving]

You can get rifled spud gun barrels, and I have a friend who said they made a rifled barrel that fit a D cell battery. They fired it once, had no idea where the battery went, and never shot it again. haha.

Knowing what I know now about rifling and how it interacts with bullets, it's not as cool as when I heard it the first time, but it still makes me laugh.

[Irving]

Watch CaddyShack Big Bear.

[rhineoshott]

Ok. I had a couple of thoughts about two inventions which I would buy in a heartbeat if somebody could actually build them. For all of you engineer types here, feel free to develop these. I don't require any payment other than you have to give me a working proto type..

1. I like to shoot prarie dogs. It is fun as hell to try to hit such a small target, particularly at ridiculously long distances. Unfortunately, one thing I'm really bad at is estimating distance. Yes, I know there are good laser rangefinders available, but prarie dogs seldom sit still long enough to use one. Even if they did, a guy might still have to adjust his scope to compensate for bullet drop. And then, what about wind? A guy has to figure for that too....

So.... Go ahead and call me lazy, but what if there was a riflescope with a laser range finder and a small computer built in. Also, there would need to be a battery pack and some small servo motors. The way this would work is, a guy would connect a cable from his computer into the rifle scope and download ballistics for the caliber he is shooting. Then, he would put an object in his crosshairs and press a small button adjacent to the trigger. The computer would range the object and automatically adjust for bullet drop based on the ballistics which were previously downloaded.

What about wind now? Well, I know light is affected by gravity maybe it is also affected in some small way by wind as well? I don't know for sure, but maybe the laser could measure that as well and adjust for it as well.

That would be the ultimate varmint/sniper scope.....

I thought of this about a year ago and asked a guy I know who is a laser engenieer for locheed. Rangefinder built into the scope would be very doable. But lasers that measure wind cannot be put into a small enough pakage for use on a scope (the bed of a pickup, mabye). but the built in rangefinder that puts the crosshairs in the right place would be a great idea, just not wind.