Posted on 05/26/2010 8:17:49 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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Not as accurate tot he knatsass of a LASER interferometer, but good enuf for my DOPE cards. Works OK for me all the way out to the 350 yd line at the local range.
I had thought of buying a Mil/MIl scope or even a Mil/MoA - Still have the thought, still saving.
Anyone out there currently using a stadiametric rangefinding scope - other than an ART scope?
This is all hypothetical, of course....
What happens when the battery runs out of the DINGO?
Replace it?
There goes the LASER rangefinder, autodrop compensator etc etc.
OTOH, the avg sniper does use a high rate of fire, so why the big deal on “twice as fast”?
As I was waking up this AM,, it occurred to me that using something like the Laser Guide Star concept -- as used in adaptive optics for astronomy -- might work.
My guess is that Rayleigh scattering (rather than sodium excitation) might work -- especially if short wavelengths and short pulses were employed.
I can see several possibilities. Hmmm -- might be a patent in there, somewhere...
Keeping our troops supplied with batteries for all their portable gizmos is already a significant logistics effort. If this employs a common battery already in the supply system, it would only mean a slight increase in acquisition volume.
Next up, an inexpensive laser detector that sounds an alarm when the rangefinder illuminates you (the target).
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