Where can I buy an electronic target rifle?

December 31, 2013 11:18 AM

I want to do target practice in my basement, but no bullets, pellets, or BB's. I'd like an electronic target rifle that uses infra-red or ultra-violet light and somehow indicates where I hit on the target.

Does such a device exist? (I've done lots of Google-ing and searching on Amazon to no avail.)

If so, where can I buy such a rifle (or probably a set of rifle, target, etc)?

posted by mbarryf to Shopping (3 answers total)

They make add-ons for real rifles to do this. Here is one example.
posted by tylerkaraszewski at 11:23 AM on December 31, 2013

Modern Pentathlon competitors use laser pistols.
posted by Rock Steady at 12:20 PM on December 31, 2013

Laserlyte is the one I know of (as linked above) -- they have add-ons for pistols and rifles, as well as a mock pistol with glock-like appearance. The in-barrel devices that beam the laser-light use the sound of the dry-fire to trigger the light beam, but the lack of recoil means you're recocking even semi-auto guns each time. I think the current consensus is that it's okay to dry-fire modern weapons, but not everybody likes doing it; also, that sort of set up rather infringes on the basic gun safety rule of always treating the gun as if it's loaded.
posted by Sunburnt at 1:00 PM on December 31, 2013 [1 favorite]