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  2. Precision-guided firearm - Wikipedia

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    The three main technologies employed for long-range shooting—the bolt-action rifle, telescopic rifle scope and machined cartridge ammunition—were developed in the nineteenth century. The first bolt-action rifle was produced in 1824 by the German firearms inventor Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. The first documented telescopic rifle sight was ...

  3. TrackingPoint - Wikipedia

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    TrackingPoint is an applied technology company based in Austin, Texas.In 2011, it created a long-range rifle system that was the first precision guided firearm. [1] [2]Formed by John McHale in February 2011, the company created its first PGF prototype in March 2011.

  4. Glossary of archery terms - Wikipedia

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    bow square (equipment) – A specialized T-square with measuring marks that clips onto the bow string, used to set nocking points for all bows and setting the brace height of recurve bows. bowfishing (practice) – The use of archery equipment for catching fish. bowhunting (practice) – The practice of hunting game using archery.

  5. Shooting sports - Wikipedia

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    Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.

  6. C79 optical sight - Wikipedia

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    A bore-sighting device is usually used to roughly zero the sight before a first-time shooter takes it to the range. Adjustments come in 0.25-mil clicks (one mil equals 10 cm at a range of 100 m, so each click adjusts the sight by 2.5 cm at 100 m). Sighting in a C79 sight is normally done at a range of 200 m.

  7. Trijicon - Wikipedia

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    ɪ. k ɒ n / TRIJ-ih-kon) is an American manufacturing company based in Wixom, Michigan, that designs and distributes sighting devices for firearms including pistols, rifles and shotguns. Trijicon specializes in self-luminous optics and night sights, mainly using the low-energy tritium illumination, light-gathering fiber optics and battery ...

  8. Diopter sight - Wikipedia

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    Target shooting diopter of a 10 metre air rifle with a mounted semi-transparent occluder for the non-aiming eye. A diopter sight is an aperture sight component used to assist the aiming of ranged weapons, mainly firearms, airguns, and crossbows. Diopters function to precisely align the shooter's eye with the front sight and the target, while ...

  9. Thermal weapon sight - Wikipedia

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    A thermographic weapon sight, thermal imagery scope or thermal weapon sight is a sighting device combining a compact thermographic camera and an aiming reticle. [1] They can be mounted on a variety of small arms as well as some heavier weapons. [2] As with regular ultraviolet sensors, thermal weapon sights can operate in total darkness.