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WeaponsMan Is Impressed With The Tracking Point PGF

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I already forgot how many stories we have written about the Tracking Point System which is getting many hits, literally and figuratively. What we know about this system is that it can turn a novice shooter into a accurate shooter, and a trained shooter, well, into the most dangerous animal in the world. That is, if you believe what the company claims and the reports of this who have already tried it.

Tracking Point Precision Guided Firearm (PGF) is weapons system which uses the Xact System. The Xact System  calculates all the variables required to accurately fire a weapon: a shooter needs to "tag" the target seen through the XACT System by pressing the trigger. The weapon does not fire at the instance of trigger pull and will only fire when its calculations indicate an accurate shot.

It is an awesome system as it takes the calculation work from the shooter and with the shooter mainly designating the targets. It promised 5 times more first-shot success rate at ranges up to 1,200 yards.

For one to who hasn’t tried the system yet, it is hard to believe that such a precision weapon is in existence. But if you read the WeaponsMan Blog, you will as the owner of the Blog "is a former Special Forces weapons man (MOS 18B, before the 18 series, 11B with Skill Qualification Indicator of S)." In short, the blogger knows his weapons, no question about it.

According to him, some former servicemen and a gun dealer tried a new TrackingPoint .300WM Rifle which is similar to that shown in the photo below. This is not a sample sent by Tracking Point for the review (and no TP representatives at the range) and they find it as the "best packaged gun any of them had ever seen." 

The group are highly experienced shooters, with Special Forces or Navy SEAL qualifications (the gun dealer is the civilian in this group) and they discovered that "a novice can be made very effective, very fast, at ranges outside of the engagement norm, with this system" with the novice shooter hitting moving targets at 850 meters.

The previous paragraph is the eye opener. With the Tracking Point PGF, anybody can be a sharp shooter, including your grandma as long as she still has a clear vision even with spectacles. It is a really dangerous weapon that you hope it won't fall into hands of a bad guy and ruin any SWAT team's day if he is strategically positioned. So far, this is a very expensive system that not anybody can just buy from any gun store and there are export restrictions. I suspect that Tracking Point would be very much diligent in keeping records of those who own a PGF with the Xact System.

With other accessories such as Smartphone/Tablet connection with the mobile App it makes it even easier to use the system. How we wish we can have one for airsoft, but it will be such an expensive thing to use. While it can turn the novice shooter a deadly shooter in no time, we still recommend having the basic shooting skills honed first. You may never know that such skills might come very handy when there is no Tracking Point PGF available.

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