lol... looks like something you'd bolt on to an AR-15 with quad rails, to go along with the scope, night vision, flashlight, IR flashlight, laser sight, front pistol grip, GPS, iPod holder, and box of spare mags...
As crazy as this seems outwardly, it might actually not be a bad idea. Snipers spend a vast majority of their time sitting around (they might not fire a shot for weeks). If I had that job, I would care a lot about comfort.
@Joaquin: You honestly think that a cup holder with a hard attached to it is better than a cup holder with a sniper rifle attached to it? In a fight who do you think would win, the hard hat or the sniper rifle? Seriously, the only thing I might take over a cup holder with a sniper rifle attached to it is a cup holder with a tank attached to it!
@IwishIwasAmime: So if you somebody said, "Choose, but choose wisely... you can have either the hard hat with two cup holders or the sniper rifle with a cup holder." you would choose the hard hat? Personally my preference of choice goes towards the better, and my instincts say the sniper rifle with cup holder is the better.
@Forsakenchild: If those were my choices in the "things with cupholders" category, and then there was another category of "weapons," then yes. I would choose the hard hat as my cup holding appliance
I prefer hot scalding coffee versus Fresca. When you torch off a round at your enemy, I'd rather be scalded than have to deal with flat soda with no fizz left.
@gemcosta: Well the weapon should help provide heat to keep it warm if you're killing enough. If you aren't that busy killing then you have time to finish your coffee.
See, if I owned a nice rifle like this, I would invested in this cup holder. Its genus. Its probably better then the Rock Band drum kit cup holder . . . but not by much
@Barry99705: I would tend to disagree. Once you have a chance to see the damage delivered by a sniper rifle you would understand the difference between it and a hunting rifle.
You can always market the sniper rifle as the hunting rifle that also tenderizes (into small chunks) your meat for you!
Question: What do you define as a "sniper rifle" vs a "hunting rifle"? Are we talking cartridge size, scope magnification, or what?
Because honestly, the ONLY difference between a sniper rifle and a good hunting rifle is (as Barry said) your target.
The standard sniper rifle uses your basic 7.62mm NATO cartridge which is decent but not the greatest. My 7mm outperforms said NATO catridge in every way, shape, and form. Meaning "Once you see the damage delivered by my 'hunting rifle' you would understand the difference between it and a 'sniper rifle'".
Now, if you wanna talk .50 caliber rifles and anti-material rifles then we are on entirely different wavelengths - I live in the real world and you apparently live in COD4. Most real-world militairy/police snipers DO NOT carry such ridiculous equipment when a simple long range rifle and a high powered scope will do.
@Barry99705: That's not my point, the scope equipped with that rifle is overkill for any hunter. If you need that scope on your rifle for hunting, you suck at sneaking up on deer.
@Toastie: Not all folks hunt for sport ... many hunt strictly for meat.
They will get a doe tag, and then kill that doe at 500 yards with a 7mm mag or somesuch ... rounds that make the .308 NATO look tame ... by sailing a round through both ears ( no wasted meat ).
I hunt with either a muzzleloader, or a crossbow ( injured left elbow ) because I feel that a centerfire rifle is too easy ... but if I really NEEDED the meat I would use a scoped bolt-action, firing a large cartridge, and be done with it, as efficiently and as brutally as possible.
@kbarrett: In all of my years of being around hunters I've never seen one put a round between both ears. I don't think I've ever even known anyone kill anything with a head shot.
If my Great uncle Les was still alive, I would introduce you to him.
Was a poucher during the depression, and used a .22lr at night in Southern Oregon ... and killed his game in exactly that fashion. One bullet through both ears.
In his late 80s he would do the same, with a Rem 700 during the day ... and use teenage relativves as mules to pack out the meat ( Wanna go hunting, kid? ).
It's how I was taught to kill ... and I still prefer headshots, even with my muzzleloaders. If I'm not certain of getting one, I don't shoot.
Don't assume your local practice is universal.
Mind you, I do shoot the boiler room with my crossbow. Need a softer target.
Rifles are easier which is why I only did bow twice. Both years I saw deer, 2 bucks and a doe and I couldn’t get any of them as they were a couple hundred yards out. If I had my Savage or Weatherby (hell, even my 32 Winchester from when I was a kid) it would have been game over, but no, I sit there for hours hoping they will smell my bait, but no, of coarse not… Screw bow hunting; it’s for sleeping off a hangover ;)
Years ago they pushed through a new law here that you could no longer bait during gun season which basically meant that if you didn’t have a plot of land to plant alfalfa, carrots, or the like, you were wasting your time going out. That was the end of the line for me, I gave it up.
The kid will: 1-shine it in his or his brothers eyes, causing eye damage; 2-never turn it off so the batteries will be replaced often; 3-keep it with him in bed making for a fire hazzard; 4-associate guns with solving all fears; 5-grow out of their fear sooner or later on their own. Stick with the little Sponge Bob plug in, light sensing one.
Generally it's a two person team to handle long range shots, one takes account of the environmental factors and converts them into usable data for the shooter. While it has been mentioned, this device adds light, at night time that would be a bad thing - during the day it wouldn't be a problem.
As far as music is concerned, they wouldn't hear - they'd be lucky to hear the report from the gun before they got hit...
@Philip Marquis: Surprisingly, competitive shooting is a sport. It's even an Olympic sport. As this does calculations, it is a calculating app. It's only "violent" when ignorant people label it as such, b/c they deem all guns "bad".
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This is obviously the awesomest sniper-rifle attachment that any cup holder has ever seen!
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With an F-22 attached to it.
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@Xeno: And there's absolutely no reason why Gem can't bring his thermos.
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You can always market the sniper rifle as the hunting rifle that also tenderizes (into small chunks) your meat for you!
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Question: What do you define as a "sniper rifle" vs a "hunting rifle"? Are we talking cartridge size, scope magnification, or what?
Because honestly, the ONLY difference between a sniper rifle and a good hunting rifle is (as Barry said) your target.
The standard sniper rifle uses your basic 7.62mm NATO cartridge which is decent but not the greatest. My 7mm outperforms said NATO catridge in every way, shape, and form. Meaning "Once you see the damage delivered by my 'hunting rifle' you would understand the difference between it and a 'sniper rifle'".
Now, if you wanna talk .50 caliber rifles and anti-material rifles then we are on entirely different wavelengths - I live in the real world and you apparently live in COD4. Most real-world militairy/police snipers DO NOT carry such ridiculous equipment when a simple long range rifle and a high powered scope will do.
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They will get a doe tag, and then kill that doe at 500 yards with a 7mm mag or somesuch ... rounds that make the .308 NATO look tame ... by sailing a round through both ears ( no wasted meat ).
I hunt with either a muzzleloader, or a crossbow ( injured left elbow ) because I feel that a centerfire rifle is too easy ... but if I really NEEDED the meat I would use a scoped bolt-action, firing a large cartridge, and be done with it, as efficiently and as brutally as possible.
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If my Great uncle Les was still alive, I would introduce you to him.
Was a poucher during the depression, and used a .22lr at night in Southern Oregon ... and killed his game in exactly that fashion. One bullet through both ears.
In his late 80s he would do the same, with a Rem 700 during the day ... and use teenage relativves as mules to pack out the meat ( Wanna go hunting, kid? ).
It's how I was taught to kill ... and I still prefer headshots, even with my muzzleloaders. If I'm not certain of getting one, I don't shoot.
Don't assume your local practice is universal.
Mind you, I do shoot the boiler room with my crossbow. Need a softer target.
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Years ago they pushed through a new law here that you could no longer bait during gun season which basically meant that if you didn’t have a plot of land to plant alfalfa, carrots, or the like, you were wasting your time going out. That was the end of the line for me, I gave it up.
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As far as music is concerned, they wouldn't hear - they'd be lucky to hear the report from the gun before they got hit...
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but this gits approved..
OK THEN
i wonder if you can make a smoothy out of it
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