Re: colonial weapons

My God you live here in Texas and you don't hunt!
I'm in shock...) But I have to agree with you on
this one. Technology doesn't stand still.

Don

> I thought I heard some deer hunters at work (I live in Texas where
EVERYBODY
> except me hunts deer it seems) talking about a "LASER sight" so-and-so
> bought last deer season.  Granted they were talking about a sporting
sight.
> But if it can done today for sport why not in a decade or two for the
> military (you know, the guys with the mult-million dollar budgets)?
>
>
>
> Scott
>
>
> >From: Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net>
> >Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> >To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> >Subject: Re: colonial weapons
> >Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:59:51 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >On 29-Jan-02 at 19:26, John Atkinson (johnmatkinson@yahoo.com) wrote:
> >
> > > By 2015, we'll be doing pretty well to have a working
> > > infantry weapon with a laser rangefinder on it.
> >
> >Really?  I thought the next generation weapon had a laser rangefinder
> >to set where the grenades go off.  I would think 13 years would be
> >enough time to get all the kinks out.  But then there is Roger's
> >Rule of Thumb, "Nothing is ever easy."  This one is from many
> >years of being a Unix Sysadmin, but it seems to apply elsewhere.
> >
> >Roger Books (A program to play FT via a web interface?  Easy.  DOH)
>
>
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