TRIGGER ACTUATION WHILE LOOKING THROUGH THE SCOPE TO TAKE PHOTOS
We’ve incorporated specialized programming, 3D printing and hardware modifications to camera rifle scopes and plastic replica guns to allow trigger actuation while looking through the scope to take photos.
The photos contain the scope’s crosshairs relative to shot placement.
Reality Hunting without Killing.
The original idea was to facilitate a hunter showing friends they “could have killed an elk, but didn’t”.
The applications and benefits expand greatly beyond that . . .
MULTIPLE Applications & Benefits
HUNT ALL YEAR
... rather than just during the licensed season
In many states one cannot draw a tag for their desired area for years.
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WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS
Allowing these photographs of whatever you see, You might be looking for elk, but will happily photograph other animals encountered, caught in the crosshairs..
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SILENT HUNTING
No loud noise of a real gun going off gives you a better chance to get more photos before the animal disappears..
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LANDOWNERS
Landowners can allow access to “hunt” on their properties without fear of livestock being shot, their limited wildlife being killed, and dealing with the liabilities associated with people having firearms relative to insurance. In many cases landowners only have the elk and deer herds on their property when regular hunting season are not open, i.e. winter range.
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TARGET PRACTICE
Simple target practice, where one can see where the shot would have been, along with the ability to target practice in places you couldn’t fire a gun anyway.
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GUIDE SERVICES
Guide services being able to expand the seasons they can provide services to clients.
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SKILLS EDUCATION
Teaching youth hunting skills and the associated adventures during the entire year, and being able to have summer adventures with the family..
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Photos are saved on a micro SD card contained in the scope
- simply download photos like any other camera
- card readers included, compatible with phone or computer
- the image files are your property unless you choose to share
- please return the micro SD card and reader
Figure 1: We could have killed this bear, but why? He’s a beautiful animal living in the wild and we were thrilled to see him there. And we saw him again the next year!
THE PHOTO SCOPE RIFLE
We are standardizing on using a soft air – FN Herstal Scar -L replica gun (with some of its functionality removed) in combination with ATN’s 3×9 digital scopes.
These scopes have night vision capability (illuminator included), high resolution and (including the added CatchandReleaseHunt.com components) can run approximately 10 hours without being turned off or recharged.