ktw
04-28-2010, 09:23 PM
I was fortunate enough to get in a full day and a half of range time this week. The weather is perfect; cool, dry and sunny, no snow, no mud, no bugs.
I spent most of it shooting on the 300 yard line. There was a lot of time spent walking back and forth between the firing line and the 300 yard berm; checking groups and marking up targets. I had the range to myself so it wasn't inconveniencing anyone other than myself, but it was eating up a lot of my range time. Got bit by the self inflicted adjusting-for-windage-in-the-wrong-direction problem on my vernier peep sight which really increased the number of trips. On those long walks I had plenty of time to think. And what I came up with is what I want for christmas this year.
I want a wireless camera mounted below and in front of the target, feeding images to a laptop on my shooting bench. I want image processing software on the laptop that lets me view the target at high resolution in real time, identifying and tracking the bullet holes, and allowing me to assign them to groups which I can then annotate.
I have a decent 45x spotting scope but not one good enough to resolve all of the 375 caliber holes at 300+ yards much less 27 or 30 caliber holes and after a while it's hard to keep track of a lot of holes over an extended range session regardless of the caliber.
So does anyone know of a St. Nick than can deliver on this?
-ktw
I spent most of it shooting on the 300 yard line. There was a lot of time spent walking back and forth between the firing line and the 300 yard berm; checking groups and marking up targets. I had the range to myself so it wasn't inconveniencing anyone other than myself, but it was eating up a lot of my range time. Got bit by the self inflicted adjusting-for-windage-in-the-wrong-direction problem on my vernier peep sight which really increased the number of trips. On those long walks I had plenty of time to think. And what I came up with is what I want for christmas this year.
I want a wireless camera mounted below and in front of the target, feeding images to a laptop on my shooting bench. I want image processing software on the laptop that lets me view the target at high resolution in real time, identifying and tracking the bullet holes, and allowing me to assign them to groups which I can then annotate.
I have a decent 45x spotting scope but not one good enough to resolve all of the 375 caliber holes at 300+ yards much less 27 or 30 caliber holes and after a while it's hard to keep track of a lot of holes over an extended range session regardless of the caliber.
So does anyone know of a St. Nick than can deliver on this?
-ktw