How would you like to make a kill with micro-precision from up to 1000 yards away? Welcome to hunting in the 21st century with Austin, Texas based company Tracking Point’s new linux-powered rifles that can take down a target using one of the most complex combinations of computer generated optics and advanced technology to create the world’s first Precision Guided Firearm, or PGF for short. Hemingway would be proud.
Hot on the heels of one of the country’s most contested gun battles – waged in The United States Senate and not on a battlefield – comes a weapon that costs as much as a lower end compact car and can effectively make individual citizens more deadly than a multi-million dollar fighter jet.
The idea for the rifle came to avid hunter John McHale in Africa in 2009 when he had his sights and missed a kill on a small Thompson’s Gazelle. The gazelle got away, but the idea never left McHale and the rest was history.
There are three rifles in the advance PGF series, the .338 Lapua Magnum, XS2 .300 Win Mag and the lighter weight XS3 Win Mag, and all are designed for long distance shooting with unbelievably frightening accuracy. Manufactured, by Surgeon Rifles, the Tracking Point’s new rifles magic lies in it’s powered scope and a lethal technology called XactSystem, which includes heads up display, target tracking and advanced fire control.
Through a unique application it can send voice, video, and data to smartphones and other devices to hit your target from hundreds of yards away.
The PGF rifles will increase first shot success rate at up to 5%, which actually makes it an excellent gun for newbies, but it will also set you back up to $22,000 for each gun — killing doesn’t come cheap. While it’s true that guns don’t kill people, people kill people – perhaps we should take a step by and realize that there will undauntedly be people who hold onto the second amendment for dear life; even thought the constitution was written in a vastly different time were computer guided $22k rifles didn’t exist.
In the end, Tracking Point’s new high powered Precision Guided Firearms are a perfect example that believers in the right to bear arms won’t step down, but will only build bigger and better guns that would frighten the shit out of any liberal.
This was inspired by the remote machineguns in the movie Aliens,same thing,don’t know why it took so long to bring to reality for personal use.