New "Smartgun"

[battle_sight_zero]

Interesting article except for the prick liberal calling it a disaster waiting to happen. http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/...230202991.html

[Holger Danske]

Does it come with spell check?

[jerrymrc]

Herding cats on a sunday afternoon.....

[kidicarus13]

See next post

[Gman]

That link didn't work for me. Found the article here; http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers...change-target/

[kidicarus13]

That link didn't work for me. Found the article here; http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers...change-target/

Thank you

[Aloha_Shooter]

Wonderful attention-getting article but so full of holes I could drain my pasta with it. At least they reported towards the end that Tracking Point is essentially gone. If Wired reported correctly (not a given), you have to turn the Wifi on to enable the vulnerabilities. Then you have to be in Wifi range of the scope.

The only alert a shooter might have to that hack would be a sudden jump in the scope’s view as it shifts position. But that change in view is almost indistinguishable from jostling the rifle. “Depending on how good a shooter you are, you might chalk that up to ‘I bumped it,’” says Sandvik.

Call me skeptical. Anyone spending $17K on a rifle is likely to be a good enough shooter to know when s/he "bumps" it. I wouldn't spend $17K on a rifle and I know when I jerked the trigger or violated my breath control protocols, much less "bumped" it.

[Gman]

Having more money than sense does not usually require good shooting skills.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Looks like they got themselves back in the news in a big way: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/12/...ml?intcmp=hpff

I'm impressed with a couple of things. First, Taya Kyle used their system to defeat the current NRA champion in a huge way: 10,140 points versus 3040. 100% hit ratio versus 58% against 29 targets. Second, their system let her score 100% in the blind shots where she didn't have direct line-of-sight to the target while Piatt understandably got 0.

Still not a system I'd want to use but I'm not a professional sniper and I pay for my equipment myself. Sounds like this will really help in overwatch operations -- and the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation got a cool $1M for the event.

[stevenc23]

With this technology you still have to input wind values (speed and direction). No misses means good to perfect wind calls on all shots for Taya. Don't know how far they were shooting or the size of the targets but something doesn't add up.