bentaz wrote:sungazer wrote:At least that money does include the gun. Which might be $3k in the US. Hard for me to fathom the use of it. First you have to identify the target and half pull the trigger anyway. I can see its benefit for moving target or ones that where once still and then became moving. An expensive toy for the guy that has everything.
So what you're saying is Brett's ordered one?
Believe it or not I actually priced one up a couple years ago and was giving it serious consideration till I saw the landed price in Australia up around the $36k mark once all duties, fees, taxes and exchange rates were taken into account.
Essentially their technology couples the scope to the LRF via a ballistics computer. Put dot on target, squeeze trigger, computes the range, drop, temp, azimuth and fires once you achieve the correct hold over. Great technology but (from memory) they only guarantee it if you use their ammo which is friggen ridiculously expensive. With all the tech, it still cannot account for the wind which in my opinion is the biggest deciding factor when trying to hit targets at range.
I shelved the idea and bought the M99 .416 Barret and another 50BMG and was still in front financially