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10 Jan 13, 21:07
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Real Name: G David Bock
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Futuristic rifle turns novice into sharpshooter
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10 Jan 13, 21:16
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Yeah, saw that a couple hours ago.
I'll go with the old method of training and practice though.
I can go this route with a cheapo video game... 
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11 Jan 13, 01:04
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Technology is just simply amazing. Not too long ago they had just announced a laser guided bullet. Leaps and bounds are being made all the time. What's next?
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11 Jan 13, 01:28
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Originally Posted by Wardog314
Technology is just simply amazing. Not too long ago they had just announced a laser guided bullet. Leaps and bounds are being made all the time. What's next?
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Laser guided bullet shot from this rifle?! 
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06 Feb 13, 16:48
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Nope, the laser guided bullet is fired from a smoothbore..
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. (Click here for a video showing the prototype’s flight.)
Sandia researchers Red Jones and Brian Kast and their colleagues have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile (about 2,000 meters).
https://share.sandia.gov/news/resour...leases/bullet/
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06 Feb 13, 16:53
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I don't see how it compensates for wind......especially when we are talking about a 700 yard shot.
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06 Feb 13, 18:50
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Don't believe it. It's a report from the Lame Stream Media.
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06 Feb 13, 19:29
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He can't be a Sharpshooter. It's a futuristic rifle, not a Sharps..... 
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06 Feb 13, 21:51
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amazing, and I always qualified as expert when I went to the range so $17 - 21k gets you one step above the Bolo badge... 
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07 Feb 13, 02:53
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I always considered using the M-60 as making anyone a sharpshooter.........
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07 Feb 13, 21:56
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Real Name: Chad
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Cool idea. However, IMO it is just another tool in the quest of making things too easy for the users. Spell check, high speed calculators, and the like, why do people need to know how to do things for themselves anymore? What happened to hard work, know how, practice, and know how?
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