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To: null and void
Vid camera, sure; I don't see why you'd need a laser pointer.

To give you an idea of the sort of use you could put such a thing to if it could run applications, a friend had some free airplane tickets and dragged me off to Utah a couple of years ago where they had a late season on cow elks, and we actually saw some cow elks, but the closest we ever got was about 550 yards at about a 12 degree down angle with about a 10 mph crosswind. Obviously, since nobody on the East coast practices anything like that or even remotely like that, we simply chalked that trip up to experience.

Now, there actually are exterior ballistics programs for PDAs, and if we'd had THAT with us, we could have taken the 550 yard downangle shot in the crosswind, and probably made it.

23 posted on 10/15/2006 9:27:10 AM PDT by tomzz
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To: tomzz
Now, there actually are exterior ballistics programs for PDAs, and if we'd had THAT with us, we could have taken the 550 yard downangle shot in the crosswind, and probably made it.

Not unless you also had a laser rangefinder.

As ranges get longer, they get harder to estimate, and bullet drop per yard gets higher and higher.

28 posted on 10/15/2006 9:33:23 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: humblegunner
These Guys are a little too hung up on tech stuff.

Ya probably could have put your finger to the wind and brought one of them there cows home for dinner!

Such sissies...LOL

48 posted on 10/15/2006 12:11:14 PM PDT by Syncro (FR Rocks: Walking the Walk With Action and Talk)
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