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Almost anyone with a few hours of basic marksmanship training and a $100 rifle can make aimed shots into standard target at 100-yards. If you add a better rifle and some more training and practice, 200-400 yard shots are not a big issue. Once you get past this level, you need some skill, a good rifle, and an accurate round to be able to pull off consistent hits. Some shooters, even after hundreds of hours of practice will never be able to make 1000-yard shots with a rifle until they master ballistics tables, dope charts, and the finer points of on the fly mil corrections. This is where the Tracking Point company comes in.

They have a product that, with about twenty minutes of instruction on, will turn a novice into a 1000-yard-plus shooter. The Texas based company specializes in a computerized digital scope that is more akin to targeting a ‘smart bomb’ from an F-22 than shooting out of more traditional optics. Their Networked Tracking Scope (NTS) offers 35x zoom with an integral laser rangefinder, ballistics computer, low-light filter, and tracking engine. Yes, that’s right, tracking engine..

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Tracking Point optics system takes the guesswork out of long range shots