Products I wish someone made...

[Irving]

Maybe someone send you one of these cool scopes for your birthday on Friday.

[BigBear]

Maybe someone send you one of these cool scopes for your birthday on Friday.

Hey! My birthday was Monday! hint, hint! HAHA.

[Marlin]

"potatoe"

[BigBear]

Sorry Marlin, I was trying to be funny with some Tenneesee humor, hence the quotation marks... Doesn't quite work when typing.

[Marlin]

That would be "tater"

[BigBear]

No, Tater is for Texans... aww hell, you're right, the whole South says Tater....

Tater salad... HA.

[Troublco]

Taters (and potatoes for that matter) do make good reactive targets, and they're environmentally friendly.

[newracer]

A 17hmr will totally disnegrate once it hits something. That being said I personally still never shoot if there is anything beyond my target I don't want to hit.

[SA Friday]

Okay, I'll agree the motorized elevation/azimuth changing sounds lazy. But I will admit that I like to limit the things that can break in my systems. But since they already make scopes with built-in laser rangefinders, and Barrett has their Optical Ranging System, it would be possible (although I'm sure it would be so expensive as to make a U.S. Optics custom scope seem cheap) to design a scope that would integrate the laser rangefinding function with the ballistics computer like a Barrett ORS and set up a couple stepper motors to adjust the crosshairs from their zero point. The wind component, I'm not sure how you could functionally integrate into the scope but my thought would be to take one of the wind meters that High Power shooters use, rig it with threaded boss like a spotting scope and then stick it on a tripod or small stake for that purpose (you could make all sorts of mounts), and have a thin cable a couple meters long to connect it to the scope. Or, I suppose if cost and battery life were no object you could do a bluetooth connection or something. The laser rangefinder/computer/lazy motors should be able to use 123 cells with a decent battery life, if the wind meter was set up the same way for commonality you could just take some spare 123's and go. And hey, if you're doing all that just have a battery meter in the scope so you can monitor battery life. I think I'd want rechargeable batteries and some sort of small solar array and maybe a little crank generator to be able to recharge them when out and about.

While you're at it, it should also have range, wind, angle, and temperature readouts in the scope view (I'm thinking along the lines of a heads-up display), and an anti-tilt indicator too. And if it's got all this, why not stuff a GPS into it too? Give you position and altitude info. The computer could use it all. You could probably work that into the wind meter/thermometer component. Set this up to take an add-on night scope and you'd have everything covered.

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Here ya go. It'll work for prairie dogs too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv2tPNdEfL0

[Troublco]

Here ya go. It'll work for prairie dogs too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv2tPNdEfL0

All right! I want one with a minigun mounted in the back of my truck for, uh, RROUT use. (That'd be Road Rage Operations in Urban Terrain!)