Thread: What will the hunting rifles of the future look like ?

I ask this question because in the news at present we have both 'Havana Syndrome' and a disabled Austrailian warship, with magnetic pulse weapons suspected as the cause. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/460...an-aid-mission.
Is it possible that in the future there will be some sort of pulse or stun rifle that works a bit like a Taser but without the wires - a directed energy Tesla rifle ? The US military is working on this type of concept with laser rifles
Stun the Stag, measure the antlers take the photos and let him recover. Or maybe even cut the antlers off and leave the stag to grow a new set next year ?

I would like to hear what @ebf has too say about this

https://www.discountafricanhunts.com...th-africa.html

Considering modern hunting rifles aren't dissimilar to those used 120 years ago I don't expect any sudden changes.

I think id like some of whatever you are taking .....

The way our sport is going courtesy of both the Government, police and a gun fearing public we might be using something like this.
Rumour has it that is what a Tikka will look like in 2050.

To answer the question only certain control types will be aloud to own a fire arm,, what ever that fire arm may look like is any ones guess.
You could possibly be in deep shit if you happened to have a fire arm yourself or anywhere near you..
That's my take on it..................hope I don't offend anyone lol.

The way things are going, I'm picking we'll return to using some more historical type guns like these...

Why cut it's antlers off?
So that no one else can get their photo with it after you?
Why even stun it? Just take a photo of the animal undisturbed rather than taze it possibly stressing it til it may die anyway.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

and a disabled Austrailian warship, with magnetic pulse weapons suspected as the cause.

Not sure about rifles, but tin foil hits will certainly be outfitted.

@Tahr, hopefully we do not end up with competitive rock throwing !

Integrated optics has been the area with the most advances in the last decade or so. I expect to see more in that space.

In the competition space we are starting to see real benefits in workflow when you integrate range finding, atmospheric sensing and ballistic solvers into the optics.

The next big step would be someone figuring out how to detect wind at various ranges, and feeding that into a ballistic solver. Wind remains the single biggest failure point for most shooters.

Already seeing quite a few of the "competition" technology changes making their way into the hunting space. Guys seeing the benefit of carbon tripods in a tussock or scrub environment.

I'd be quite happy to use something like the Hoddnet speed dot system and FFP christmas tree reticle for medium range hunting, it extends the traditional 200m walking zero by a fair amount.

Covered big hole in the ground on a game trail.

How far in the future?
We will all be disarmed by 2030 remember.

to see future...maybe look at epic failures and not so popular changes in recent past...
carbon wrapped barrels....some love them,others curse them.
triangle barrels.....interesting concept that didnt catch on...
full overbarrel suppressors......they work really really well BUT you got to clean them properly.....hopefully the concept will morf into a full length overbarrel type arrangement.

suppressed shotguns...the u/o looked like spouting downpipe....awesome idea but cut off over half the market as not allowed for game birds AND need subsonic loads to make huge difference which is giant leap backwards for birdshot killing power...OK for rabbits in back yard but not lot of use at 40 yards.

tacticool...nuf said

subsonic...well its hanging in there but folks have to be very good to make it work well on game,awesome for plinking.

the mossberg 4X4 style stock.....yip interesting which brings up...

the super lightweight concept....great to carry,ok for single round..painfull for lots of rounds and can spray holes everywhere when heat up,cartridges got SMALLER to compensate with corrosponding loss of terminal oooomph for want of better term.

we seem to go around in circles with cartridge design...the funniest one I find is the 223 terminater /223-204 years ago we had 222 magnum,killed off by .223 then ruger grabbed the 222mag case,necked it down to .20 cal and the 204 ruger was born,its now neck up to .224 and is supposed to be best thing thing sliced bread,yip it works,but re invention of wheel to some degree.
the 300blkout yes we all know it was spawned to use in AR15 platform but it does nothing a 7.62x39 wasnt already doing.....and as subsonic round the OLD OLD OLD .32/20 was already doing it all be it with lighter projectile...the 30/30 still does it well too.
give pretty much any older cartridge the advantage of faster twist barrel and they can step it up with the best new jobbies.

barrel twists have gone from really slow for round ball,to fast twist for heavy splitzers then slowed somewhat for light n fast,not going faster again the projectile makers get kicked in arse for projectiles blowing up with fast twist n high speed...and again for stout projectile at slower speed not expanding enough.... monos have had huge push in last decade,they too work best fast and close.....if they keep being pushed as the have to be used,we may see bigger cartridges come back to push the monos faster to stretch range....and will need longer heavy barrel to shoot them straight and decent big stock to shoot them well.


or we will be systematically starved of components untill we all are using home rolled black powder and cast projectiles in flintlocks,or not shooting at all.