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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Anyone ever hear of a "rail gun"? These are current state-of-the-art in the unlimited benchrest class. The shooter stands next to it and releases the sear with a remote camera shutter thing on a cable. They never touch the rifle once the shot is aligned - they stand there and watch their wind flags. We see these at my club's range, being somewhat of an epicenter for benchrest enthusiasts. Many of our members have held world records in various classes at various distances.
Anyway, pretty cool stuff, but one might question its practicality:
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Wow. The idea of a firearm that you don't actually hold seems - like not really a firearm. There is the "fire" part but where is the "arm" part?. A big part of target shooting is the mastery over body movement, respiration, tremor. Without that, it seems more of an exercise in ultra precise mechanical accuracy.
As for the wind, they could install anemometers every 25 yd and program an Arduino plus stepper motors to automatically calculate windage, aim the "rifle", then either automatically fire it, or prompt the shooter to push the remote release. Images of Maverick shouting "I got tone" then "Fox One".
Heck, why not use liquid cooling, thermocouples, and another Arduino to control barrel temperature.