If you go and watch their youtube videos Ripley, you'll plainly see that you have to enter your own estimate of the wind. I'll say again, once you have an accurate range, the windage is the most difficult problem to solve with any long range shooting solution. The other things like elevation, temp, etc are very minor compared to range and windage, these two are the primary things that HAVE to have a high level of precision.
If you wish, give them a call, ask how their product performs with new shooters who are buying it that have no real long range shooting experience and training, on windy days, with full value winds in the 15mph and greater range. Their system again ONLY simplifies the range, elevation, temp/pressure parts of the equation with technology. They don't have a wind sensor built in, and even if they did, due to the changing nature of wind direction and speed on windy days, it's as much art as it is science. Their videos show shots on very calm days. Look at the landscape around the targets before they are struck in all their videos - calm winds. Yet they purposefully edit in pictures of the shooters back at their position in gusty conditions. They've been called out on this from various shooting magazines and review sites.
Also regarding the bbl length, load and such Rich, their programs are set up with certain bbl length and loads already pre configured. They currently offer 3 different calibers, you can't pick anything else at the moment. That's how they are doing if, if that answers your question at all - 3 calibers with a single load of their own, already with known values entered into their system.
You STILL have to dope the wind yourself, and enter the ESTIMATED value(s) into the fire control system. I mistake of just 5 mph on a 1000 yard shot on your estimate, or making the mistake of calling it a full value instead of a quarter value wind, will result in misses, by distance that will surprise shooters who don't do much long range shooting. Again, Tracking Point, as I said, is an incremental step up the ladder to simplifying long range shooting for the average shooter, but it only simplifies PARTS of the whole solution required to make long range shots connect.
Example, Ripley, you can use that Tracking Point rifle on an unknown distance range on a windy day, and I'll shoot a similar caliber (300 win mag or whatever) in a typical rifle with decent optics, and use the regular tools of wind and range estimation already in use for quite a while. If you're an average or untrained long range shooter, you'll have zero chance of out shooting somebody who is with it. None.
Every review you'll read about Tracking Point will say the following - this is taken from one.
For instance, the shooter still has to correctly gauge the wind and manually input that into the scope.
See, the laser rangefinder that I'll use isn't integral to my optics, like it is with Tracking Point. So, having pre-ranged my rifle with the loads I'm using, I already know what M.O.A. settings to click into my optics for various ranges, so once I get my range from either a laser or optical (mil dot) range finder, or plain old estimation, I then adjust my optic. Then I account for elevation of the target (pretty easy to do), any massive changes in environment (I usually shoot in the same area, again not difficult either way), and THEN do the hardest part - estimate the wind direction and speed, as well as take into account if my target it's in motion (hopefully constant consistent, otherwise wait for constant motion or complete stop in motion). The point is, I still have to enter the wind on BOTH the older tech rifle AND the Tracking Point system. The higher the wind, and the fuller it's value, the more likely there will be descrepency between my estimate, and the real value. Thus, the likelihood if missing due to the wind is the SAME with both Tracking Point and a Regular scoped rifle.
Tracking Point does take the elevation reading itself and adjust for it automatically, which again isn't a real difficult part of the solution anyway, but it does help new shooters a bit I suppose. It also doesn't "fire" when the trigger is pressed, which does help new shooters a lot who still flinch or improperly press their trigger, as it is a total surprise when the rifle fires, as it will only do so when it thinks everything is in alignment, and the trigger has been held down, not just when the trigger is pressed. It does do PART of that "dream" M1 tank solution that I mentioned, and if someday they figure out how to do the wind accurately, they'll be well on their way to this. It just doesn't do that most difficult part AT ALL now.
If you go to a lot of the long range and military shooting sites that have reviewed it, you'll get the same story I've "painted" here. One example -
The first thing that they’re working on is wind and moving targets for the existing rifle setup. Getting the ballistics right for the drop is good, but having something that is completely idiot proof for even wind calls is high on their list. As for moving targets, they have had some incredible interest from the military and law enforcement for these systems but they need to be able to hit moving targets before those customers are willing to drop the coin on some of these rifles.
It's a fantastic system for untrained long range shooters, and even simplifies and speeds up the process for advanced shooters in many regards. It's just that vs moving targets, or on windy days, or combining both these things, the system isn't capable of helping a new shooter out with these things, which happen to be next to range the most important and difficult to adjust your long range solution for.
If I want to take an untrained long range shooter out and let them shoot at long range stationary stuff without any knowledge about how long range shooting works, yes, this system will let them get hits consistently on calm days at whatever they shoot at. If I want to use it in long range competitions where there is often wind or moving targets, or use it on the battlefield, it really isn't going to allow that same untrained and unknowledgeable person get those same hits.
