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US 9,068,794 B1Granted
Apparatus and method for aiming point calculation
AssigneeHorus Vision, LLC
InventorDennis J. Sammut
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Abstract
The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
Claims11
A method for using a computer running a ballistics program, comprising:
- a) inputting cartridge, altitude, temperature and atmospheric pressure data into said computer running said ballistics computer program;
- b) calculating points of impact based on said data by said computer using said ballistics program;
- c) selecting an aiming point on a reticle in a gunsight using said points of impact wherein said reticle comprises:
- 1) a primary vertical cross-hair;
- 2) a primary horizontal cross-hair intersecting said primary vertical cross-hair;
- 3) a plurality of secondary horizontal cross-hairs evenly spaced along said primary vertical cross-hair;
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- 4) a plurality of secondary vertical cross-hairs evenly spaced along at least some of said secondary horizontal cross-hair wherein said secondary vertical cross-hairs intersect one and only one secondary horizontal cross-hair.
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