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GUNWERKS 15 Years of Innovation
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HINK ABOUT HOW TECHNOLOGY has changed the world in the past fifteen years. In 2006 social media was in its infancy and Myspace was king, the iPhone was still a year away from launching, and Netflix was only renting DVDs via postal service. Look at your own habits and those of your family or walk into any airport, coffee shop, or restaurant and take note of what people are doing. Whether or not life was inherently better or worse before you became aware of the word “emoji” is debatable. Right or wrong though, the way recent technology has influenced our everyday lives is staggering. Since 2006, shooting, and long range shooting in particular, has greatly benefited from technology. Fifteen years ago laser rangefinders were available and in their early stages of development. Most long range shooting solutions were developed from drop tables printed in books and then the needed data was copied to a small sheet of paper and taped to a rifle stock. Some websites had ballistic calculators, but as the first smartphone wouldn’t even launch until a year later, that wasn’t something you had access to in the field, so the same tape-it-to-your-stock solution was implemented. The vast majority of hunting optics had capped turrets so estimated hold-overs and various “long range” reticles were used. Getting a rifle and load to match up with those hash marks was a challenge. Rifle scopes with exposed turrets for dialing longer 32 HUNTER'S HORN™ FALL 2021
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