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What’s going on guys I’m John. Another product review for you today we’re looking at the Ranger 1500 range finder by vortex let. Me break this video down for you real quick we’re going to unbox. It we’re going to physically look at. And then I’m going to field-test the thing we’re going to look at durability accuracy distance capabilities we’re going to check out. It does in low-light. And then I’m going to wrap. It up with pros cons. Where to get how much. It costs and that’s. It so here we go okay the vortex Ranger 1500 is still in the box let’s check. It out inside we’ve got a soft sided case with a rangefinder in. That aside also a little cheat card here for a slope. And drop got the manual got a allen wrench the neck lanyard. One lithium cr2 battery. Ithink that’s it alright lets’s take a look at. This thing it’s really pretty small 39 inches long 3 inches wide. And it’s only 7 point 7 ounces you’ll notice there’s a rubber coating on. It green keeps. It a little bit more durable. And actually gives you a better grip on the thing the lenses are fully multi-coated the front. You have the 22 millimeter objective lens.

This rangefinder has a magnification of 6. We look on the back you’ll see the eye cup here. This is actually you manually focus. This rangefinder below that’s. Where the battery goes let’s throw. That in quick just grab a coin drop the battery in a couple other things. If you’re going to put the lanyard on. You can see there’s a couple little holes here. And that’s where the neck lanyard goes right there. And on the side there’s a utility clip so. You want to put this on your pack. You want to put it in your pocket your belt um that’s. What that’s for and. You can actually use the eleanor wrench. Ishowed you can take. You can flip it to the other side depending on. If you’re right or left-handed. You don’t like you can just pull. It rights off on the bottom there’s the tripod socket. You want to use this thing with the tripod. And then on the top pretty simple there’s just two buttons the.

One closest to your. Isays measure the one further from your is menu. This rangefinder has. All rings that seal the product against moisture so essentially it’s waterproof it’s also fogged proof alright. You have the battery in to turn. You have to do is hit the measure button. Once in the display will pop up I’m going to show. You the display right. Now it’s not a great picture but kind of gives. You an idea once the display is showing you just have to hit the measure button the second time. That will give you your basic measurement so. Once to turn once to measure that’s. This rangefinder also has a scan mode so instead of. Once to turn it wants to take a measurement. You can do once to turn. And then hold the measure button down. What you can do is just scan.

Everything the rangefinder hits. It will continually give. You updated distances as far as getting into the menu. And changing some of the settings. That kept it pretty simple so the second button here furthest from your eye is the menu button. What you do is hold. It down for 4 seconds 1 2 3 4. And then you’re going to be in the menu mode. And there’s only really three options of things. You can change the first. You can change it from meters to yards. Or yards to meters the second thing you can do is change from HCD mode which is their angle compensating mode to the l OS mode which is just the line-of-sight mode. And the third thing you can do is just change the brightness of the display there’s three different brightness es so there. You go that’s the physical rundown of. This rangefinder we also just went through the basics of functionality we’re going to get into.

Some of those a little bit. We field test the product the first thing I looked at was the waterproof claim. What I did was submerged. This rangefinder underwater multiple times. It at the beginning of the field test. Iwanted to see it would crap out on. Me right away something would happen as the field testing went on but. You know what it checked out okay. That being said I wouldn’t take. This thing scuba diving on your next trip to the Caribbean but. It gets wet in field. Iwouldn’t sweat it the next thing I did was checked out the anti-fog properties. This thing is purged with nitrogen. It has the waterproof. All rings so no moisture is supposed to get inside of.

What I did was I wanted to shake. It up a little bit and go from extreme cold to warm back to cold so. This thing in the freezer. Ihad no issue whatsoever with internal fall game. Now don’t be confused. These companies say anti-fog. It means internal fogging not external fogging like the fog. You get on the outside of the glass. You breathe on you go from warm to cold. Something like I did get a little bit of fog on the glass doing. That as with all optics but. What they’re talking about here is the internal fogging no issues whatsoever ok guys before. Itest out the distance in the accuracy it’s important for you to know. That vortex advertises. This range finder has distance capabilities for non-reflective targets at 750 yards. And reflective targets at 1500 yards in. This works at angles is extreme as plus. Or minus 60 degrees so. Istarted small looking at basic accuracy. Ipulled the tape I took readings at 50 yards 40 yards 30 20 10.

And 9 yards every reading was spot-on including the 10 yards but. Idropped down to 9 yards no reading whatsoever the next thing I wanted to do was test out the distance capabilities so. Irecruited the team an. We found ourselves a better vantage point. We started pumping some distances out measurements can be taken two different ways let’s use. This tree as an example the first. One is the L OS or line-of-sight mode. When you’re in the L o s mode think about a line going straight from your eyeball right to the tree. And the rangefinder gave. Is a distance of 18 yards in an angle of negative 29 degrees switch to HCD mode which is the horizontal component distance. What the rangefinder does is.

It takes the line-of-sight measurement. And the angle it does the math. It gives you the true horizontal distance. If you’re hunting from a tree stand. Some extreme elevations. This is the distance. That you’re going to want to use. You take a shot in this scenario the tree had horizontal distance 15 yards. Me rattle off some other horizontal distances. We looked at the first object. We looked at was this well cap. We were unable to pick up in HCD reading and here’s why in line-of-sight mode. We arranged it at 11 yards but. It had an extreme angle of negative 56 degrees so. You do the math that distance would have come in under 10 yards in HCD mode in. This range fighter doesn’t pick up objects under 10 yards so here’s the rule of thumb with. This product if you’re close to an object but you’re unable to pick up a distance. You can assume that it’s under 10 yards next. This wheelbarrow at 29 yards the decoy at 123 yards.

This road sign at 304 yards the shed at 5:17 the tree line at 9:36. This blue silo at 1435 yards. We went back and cross-referenced the distance with. Some satellite imagery. We found that the actual distance was. One thousand four hundred. And thirty-three yards which was only two yards off vortex claims a variance of plus. Or minus three yards at. Any object fifteen hundred yards away. And our two yards off was well within the margin of error next. We tried another silo but with no luck. We couldn’t get a reading on the L o s mode. Or the HDD mode what we found out. We cross-referenced the satellite imagery again was.

This silo was over eighteen hundred yards away so outside of the capabilities of. This product all right you’re probably saying that’s good. Everything but John. Idon’t hunt silos I don’t hunt wheelbarrows. Ihunt non-reflective soft targets like deer bear elk. Iwas wondering the same thing so. Iwent out recruited. Some friends to help. Me not only was I able to connect on multiple animals under 100 yards but. Iwas also able to connect on cows at five fifty-five six forties. And seven hundred and eleven yards the next thing I wanted to do was test. This product in a low light scenario so. Iset my decoy up at fifty-nine yards. Itook my first reading at sunset. Itook my second reading thirty minutes after sunset which typically is the end of shooting hours the evening. Idid the low-light testing was just a.

Few days after the new moon so. Ididn’t get much help from the moon as far as additional light. Iwas easily able to make out the decoy. And range it 10 minutes after shooting light 20 minutes after shooting light as. You can see I ran out of camera light but. Iwas still able to pick up the decoy. And range and then 30 minutes after shooting late again with no camera light. Iwas able to just pick up the white on the belly of the whitetail so. This thing had low light capabilities almost a full hour after sunset. Or a half an hour after legal shooting hours just a disclaimer don’t hunt after legal shooting hours as. It is illegal but I just did. This to show how good. It worked in low-light the last thing I want to do is just touch on the scan mode again. What you can do is hold the measure button in. And just scan in everything the rangefinder hits it’s going to continually keep pumping out distances for you.

This works great in two different scenarios. One trying to pick up distances on really far away objects. It doesn’t take much. That measure button to bump. It a little bit if it’s on a tripod just hitting the button will bump. It enough you can miss a target completely at 12. Or 13 hundred yards. If you’re in scan mode. You can keep hovering around. That object until you get a good reading the second scenario. You guys have all been there you’re sitting in your stand you’re trying to range multiple trees around your stand to get an idea. How far away everything is there’s. One tree you’ve been trying to hit but every time. You range it you’re hitting some of the branches. Or brush and foreground again. If you’re in scan mode hold. That button down you can just hover until.

You find that hole. It gives you a reading right through to. That tree you’ll be good to go. All right I think that’s. Everything so let’s move on to pros cons. How much where to get the thing okay guys let’s talk about the pros the distance is checked out fine the accuracy checked out fine the angle compensation seemed to work great. You guys saw we had no issues with water. Ireally like the fact. That the display offered three different brightness es depending on how dark. Or light it is outside the scan mode was a cool feature in the utility clip is. Something that’s unique. That I’ll be taking advantage of. This fall ok let’s move over to cons the only possible issue. Ifound with this rangefinder is. If you’re that really wants a rangefinder that’s going to pick up objects less. That 10 yard mark you might want to look for something else otherwise. This rangefinder just checked out to be really solid ok guys I’m going to take.

One step further if you’re familiar with vortexes first range finder the Ranger 1000 after looking at countless reviews there were two things. That jumped off the page as potential negatives the first is customers weren’t thrilled. You had to push the button three times to get reading they fixed. That with this new rangefinder the 1500. You only have to do. Once to turn once to get a measurement. And the second thing is. Some people said the Ranger 1000 had a slower processor speed meaning you hit the button. You wait a little bit. And then you get your distance. Ihad no problems field testing the range of 1500. Ihit the button immediately got a distance no issues there. One of the limitations of. This video was I didn’t look at battery life whatsoever the good thing about. When you’re looking through the display on the rangefinder. It actually has a battery meter so. You guys can always see. What the battery life is on the rangefinder.

If for some reason this thing you know runs out of battery two. Or three months down the road I’ll put a comment below. This video to let you guys know. That hey the battery didn’t hold up alright so. Where do how much does. It cost a good thing to do would be to go over to Vortex’s website I’m going to leave the link below. This video in the information it’s always a good place to start but about four hundred. And eighty dollars and I’ve seen. It at Midway USA online Cabala’s Bass Pro Shop Sportsman’s Warehouse so. You can get it pretty much anywhere. You guys have local sports shops. That carry any of the vortex optics. They can get it for you to the last thing. Ido want to touch on is the warranty. That vortex has I usually don’t talk about warranties. Unless it’s a really good. This is a really good.

One so basically their VIP warranty says. If it’s got the vortex name on. It no receipts no registrations. Something goes wrong with. It to them, and they’re going to take care of. It hurts to lay out a lot of money for optics. Any optics not just. That kind of warranty to back. You can feel pretty good about making the one-time purchase. All right guys that’s. You liked the video make sure. You subscribe to the antlers core dot-com YouTube channel hit. That little red subscribe button we’ve been pumping out a video every two weeks for about the last seven months. And I’m going to take. One step further I’m going to give. You the $000 it costs to subscribe to my channel otherwise keep an eye out for my next video we’ll see.

To complete the programming we’ll use the measure. And menu buttons on top of the Ranger 1000 to begin simply press. And release the measure button briefly to bring up the display. Once the display is up press. And hold the menu button down for four seconds until the mode selection screen displays then release the button. Now you’re in the mode choice for HCD. Or l OS simply press the measure button briefly to toggle between HCD. And l OS press and released it’ll toggle back. And forth you in the mode choice. You prefer briefly press the menu button. It will save that setting now the display moves to the yards meters choice again simply press. And release the measure button briefly to toggle between yards. And meters once you’re in the mode. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. That setting the display. Now moves to the brightness choice use the measure button press.

And release briefly to toggle through three levels of brightness. Once you’re in the brightness. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. It the display now returns to HCD l OS. You have the settings. All set as you prefer. You can simply press. And hold the menu button for four seconds to save. These settings and exit the mode selection process. This can also be done at. Any time through the process well that’s. All there’s to know you’re. All set to take your Ranger 1000 out in the field.

hi I’m Casey McClatchy from Lancaster archery Supply. And I’m here to introduce a new product for 2018 from vortex optics. This is the Ranger 1300 a rangefinder new. This year that’s replacing last year’s model the vortex 1000. This product here is. One of my personal favorites. It will range all the way out to thirteen hundred yards with a minimum distance of nine yards. You can see as it out of the package here. It does come with a very nice carrying case as well as an ambidextrous belt clip here. You can put this on the left. Or the right depending on where. You prefer to carry. It also comes with a lanyard so. You prefer you can hang. It around your neck. And a third option you are doing ranging while standing still. It is threaded for a tripod on the bottom of the rangefinder there are two buttons here on. This rangefinder on the top there is a measuring button. And a menu button to turn. You need to do is hold down the measuring button. And a bright LCD will pop up. This readout is ideal for low-light conditions as well as for those type of people who have black readout just does not give enough contrast to the background in low light shadows shrubs tree lines things like.

It will range all the way from 9 yards out to 1300. This makes it ideal for. Both bow hunters and rifle hunters. Either a horizontal component distance which will account for any angles for tree stand hunters. Or hunting in high elevation. It also uses a secondary ranging technology called line of sight line of sight will accurately range for you out on flat distances for people who are hunting you know flatter terrain. This rangefinder it comes equipped with a 6x magnification which will give. Any shooter very clear visual on targets. All the way out to its thirteen hundred yard distance. Another very nice thing about. This rangefinder is as. You can see it has a very ergonomic grip to. It is waterproof sealed so. It will hold up through just about. Any kind of conditions. You can put it through on. That same note you do find conditions. You know this drops out of a tree. You drop it into a puddle. And the optics get fuzzy. This is equipped with the VIP warranty from vortex.

That means is this is an unconditional lifetime warranty. They will cover anything. That happens so strange finder for the life. You happen this range finder will range. All the way out to 315 degree fields of view along with. It will give you the option with. That red LCD readout. It has three different dimness options. And will give you the option to swap back. And forth between yards. Or meters depending on your preference. You liked this video feel free to give. Me a thumbs up you want to see. More videos like this subscribe to our YouTube. And for any other questions please visit. Us at Lancaster archery comm.

All right guys so vortex rangefinder Ranger 1800 supposed to be able to range from nine yards up to. It said 1800 yeah 1800 yards on reflective targets non reflective from 9 yards to 900 so open. This up take a look inside. Now I was playing around with a demo unit. It was crystal clear so I’m get. This one out play around with. It and try to show. You guys structure book need. That just hope I’m doing this with. One hand so my lanyard it’s cute my lumpy god bless teeth oh what’s in there. It is so menu measure little belt clip don’t. You guys be able to see inside. It and doesn’t really do. Anything but uh see. If we can’t get that to focus in a little bit. When we go out and play with. This a little bit later so go ahead. And get the battery in. And try to show you guys. This thing in action stay tuned things instruct in their pickup on the tree.

That barn can’t really read. It but eight hundred. And forty-nine yards 243 yards so. This thing gets out there pretty good. And it is pretty bright so despite. What the camera shown with the flare. Now you can also change. All of that a brightness. That is in the neighbor’s house so as. You can see it’s pretty nice. It should make things a little bit easier it’s stupid clear real clear setting. That tree so there it is for ducks Ranger 18 hunters. And I do want to note. That you can change the. How am I trying to say the measurements. And if I have to focus in on. This between yards and meters with the button here. Ihave it set on yards George meters. And there’s your brightness setting. That I was telling you about so probably could have turned. It up before you guys I’ll just keep.

It on the medium side in there it’s nice it’s got the battery level down there too so alright she’s just a close-up of. This card again just. Because in the beginning it wasn’t very clear so doesn’t in. Both no end in no way so. That comes with it Oh Maynard probably never use I’ll tell. You I really like the texture of. It rubbery it feels like it’s its really nice in your hands buttons. Idon’t know you can hear them click. Or not but it’s a good feel so does the knack. We shut off so you don’t have to worry about. You know turn it off turn. It on I piece is adjustable for focus how’s your little boy. Or excuse me here tripod male. If you want to get real fancy. All right I gotta so that’s. It I’ve enjoyed you know the video. Anybody looking to purchase. It I hope that helped clear. It up a little bit for you vortex Ranger 1800 so. You know like subscribe. And I will see you guys next time.

Hi folks today I want to tell. You about a great closeout deal. That just hit our dots The Archers choice rangefinder by Nike I’ll get right to the point. You get two measurement display modes a horizontal for angular measurements from the stand taking into account inclines. And declines actual distance for true straight-line measurements it’s very easy to toggle between those two modes to target priority modes for measuring distances. Where targets might be overlapping first target priority mode displays the distance of the closest target only the distant target priority mode displays the distance of the farthest target. Some other fun facts the display measurements are in. Both yards and meters get your choice of. Either one it also has an LED backlighting function for optimum contrast through the eyepiece. And that turns on and off very easily with the pressing the mode button. While the rangefinder is on automatically turns off after eight seconds. You don’t have to worry about wasting battery power delivers measurements out to 600 yards it’s fog proof.

And it’s waterproof. And as you can see it’s small. And compact it fits very easily in. One hand inside the box. You will find your shining your rangefinder of course the camo neoprene case with removable lens cover has a magnetic closure on. It there so that snaps into place. And finally the neck strap which attaches directly to the neoprene cover worth every bit of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $280 but right. Now we’re lopping off nearly $100. And letting these range finders fly for just.

Yeah we’re gonna do a review quick review before. We get to our shooting of the new vortex Ranger 1800 it’s pretty much identical to the 1500 it’s got. You know a standard menu button. Where you can go through. You can change between yards. And meters you can change between a line of sight. And what they call like a corrective the corrective distance. Where it’ll judge the angle for you. If you’re like a bow hunter. Or what have you and. It will give you the actual shooting yardage. And it changes the brightness intensity. You look through it’s a little red display. You know it’s just got a little crosshair in there. You put your target in their hit. It and it’s good to go it’s got a little flame iord on. Both sides where you can put your neck lanyard. It does come with a belt clip which is reversible for lefties righties fully multi-coated lenses a little spot down on the bottom for a free trip on. Isee my tripod can work with. That I’d say so yeah. It just looks like a standard tripod connection. And this where your battery goes in yeah use a quarter pull. It out and it’s a cr2 battery it’s a similar battery to. What some of your stream lights. And you know weapon lights use basically out to 1800 yards highly reflective targets little laser range so. If you’re looking for a one-mile rangefinder. This is it out non reflective targets like deer elk. You know animals what-have-you. It says it’s good out to 900 so right. Now you know we’re at the range we’re just getting ready to shoot out there, so we’re gonna lays out the targets it’s really quick really easy.

You just push down the measure button turns. It on and then it’ll give. You a range if you hold. It down it’ll go into scan mode. And you can just go from target to target. And it’ll it’ll just continually read yardage yeah. All right 534 yards we’re not bad. You know — in the middle as far back target it’s a 10-inch popper. And it’s coming in at 648 yards. And if you go to the right way back in the back there’s. Another target back there we’re gonna try. And lays it through. That tree it’s coming in at 692 yards so pretty quick pretty easy nice — nice little rangefinder. One nice thing I leave for guys as.

You can tell you know we’re very full of Leopold but Leopold’s rangefinder does not offer the unconditional lifetime warranty the vortex does. Even on electronics. If it breaks you send. It in Leopold’s two years that’s. All you get and you gotta buy a new. One so there it is the new vortex Ranger 1800 awesome. How much do they cost what’s the price point in. These this one they’re going for 429. You can get them at Midway OpticsPlanet. Ibought this one from Midway we’re not sponsored by. Anybody how about this with my own money it’s mine. You know I just got off the Midway just the other day. You know so pretty much anywhere Cabala’s don’t buy them from Cabala’s they’ll tell. You it’s for 29 and then. When you go to checkout at 629 so. You know welcome to Cabala’s. They kind of suck but. You know everywhere else is good so there. It is alright guys there. It is give us a like share subscribe to our Channel.

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What’s going on guys I’m John. Another product review for you today we’re looking at the Ranger 1500 range finder by vortex let. Me break this video down for you real quick we’re going to unbox. It we’re going to physically look at. And then I’m going to field-test the thing we’re going to look at durability accuracy distance capabilities we’re going to check out. It does in low-light. And then I’m going to wrap. It up with pros cons. Where to get how much. It costs and that’s. It so here we go okay the vortex Ranger 1500 is still in the box let’s check. It out inside we’ve got a soft sided case with a rangefinder in. That aside also a little cheat card here for a slope. And drop got the manual got a allen wrench the neck lanyard. One lithium cr2 battery. Ithink that’s it alright lets’s take a look at. This thing it’s really pretty small 39 inches long 3 inches wide. And it’s only 7 point 7 ounces you’ll notice there’s a rubber coating on. It green keeps. It a little bit more durable. And actually gives you a better grip on the thing the lenses are fully multi-coated the front. You have the 22 millimeter objective lens.

This rangefinder has a magnification of 6. We look on the back you’ll see the eye cup here. This is actually you manually focus. This rangefinder below that’s. Where the battery goes let’s throw. That in quick just grab a coin drop the battery in a couple other things. If you’re going to put the lanyard on. You can see there’s a couple little holes here. And that’s where the neck lanyard goes right there. And on the side there’s a utility clip so. You want to put this on your pack. You want to put it in your pocket your belt um that’s. What that’s for and. You can actually use the eleanor wrench. Ishowed you can take. You can flip it to the other side depending on. If you’re right or left-handed. You don’t like you can just pull. It rights off on the bottom there’s the tripod socket. You want to use this thing with the tripod. And then on the top pretty simple there’s just two buttons the.

One closest to your. Isays measure the one further from your is menu. This rangefinder has. All rings that seal the product against moisture so essentially it’s waterproof it’s also fogged proof alright. You have the battery in to turn. You have to do is hit the measure button. Once in the display will pop up I’m going to show. You the display right. Now it’s not a great picture but kind of gives. You an idea once the display is showing you just have to hit the measure button the second time. That will give you your basic measurement so. Once to turn once to measure that’s. This rangefinder also has a scan mode so instead of. Once to turn it wants to take a measurement. You can do once to turn. And then hold the measure button down. What you can do is just scan.

Everything the rangefinder hits. It will continually give. You updated distances as far as getting into the menu. And changing some of the settings. That kept it pretty simple so the second button here furthest from your eye is the menu button. What you do is hold. It down for 4 seconds 1 2 3 4. And then you’re going to be in the menu mode. And there’s only really three options of things. You can change the first. You can change it from meters to yards. Or yards to meters the second thing you can do is change from HCD mode which is their angle compensating mode to the l OS mode which is just the line-of-sight mode. And the third thing you can do is just change the brightness of the display there’s three different brightness es so there. You go that’s the physical rundown of. This rangefinder we also just went through the basics of functionality we’re going to get into.

Some of those a little bit. We field test the product the first thing I looked at was the waterproof claim. What I did was submerged. This rangefinder underwater multiple times. It at the beginning of the field test. Iwanted to see it would crap out on. Me right away something would happen as the field testing went on but. You know what it checked out okay. That being said I wouldn’t take. This thing scuba diving on your next trip to the Caribbean but. It gets wet in field. Iwouldn’t sweat it the next thing I did was checked out the anti-fog properties. This thing is purged with nitrogen. It has the waterproof. All rings so no moisture is supposed to get inside of.

What I did was I wanted to shake. It up a little bit and go from extreme cold to warm back to cold so. This thing in the freezer. Ihad no issue whatsoever with internal fall game. Now don’t be confused. These companies say anti-fog. It means internal fogging not external fogging like the fog. You get on the outside of the glass. You breathe on you go from warm to cold. Something like I did get a little bit of fog on the glass doing. That as with all optics but. What they’re talking about here is the internal fogging no issues whatsoever ok guys before. Itest out the distance in the accuracy it’s important for you to know. That vortex advertises. This range finder has distance capabilities for non-reflective targets at 750 yards. And reflective targets at 1500 yards in. This works at angles is extreme as plus. Or minus 60 degrees so. Istarted small looking at basic accuracy. Ipulled the tape I took readings at 50 yards 40 yards 30 20 10.

And 9 yards every reading was spot-on including the 10 yards but. Idropped down to 9 yards no reading whatsoever the next thing I wanted to do was test out the distance capabilities so. Irecruited the team an. We found ourselves a better vantage point. We started pumping some distances out measurements can be taken two different ways let’s use. This tree as an example the first. One is the L OS or line-of-sight mode. When you’re in the L o s mode think about a line going straight from your eyeball right to the tree. And the rangefinder gave. Is a distance of 18 yards in an angle of negative 29 degrees switch to HCD mode which is the horizontal component distance. What the rangefinder does is.

It takes the line-of-sight measurement. And the angle it does the math. It gives you the true horizontal distance. If you’re hunting from a tree stand. Some extreme elevations. This is the distance. That you’re going to want to use. You take a shot in this scenario the tree had horizontal distance 15 yards. Me rattle off some other horizontal distances. We looked at the first object. We looked at was this well cap. We were unable to pick up in HCD reading and here’s why in line-of-sight mode. We arranged it at 11 yards but. It had an extreme angle of negative 56 degrees so. You do the math that distance would have come in under 10 yards in HCD mode in. This range fighter doesn’t pick up objects under 10 yards so here’s the rule of thumb with. This product if you’re close to an object but you’re unable to pick up a distance. You can assume that it’s under 10 yards next. This wheelbarrow at 29 yards the decoy at 123 yards.

This road sign at 304 yards the shed at 5:17 the tree line at 9:36. This blue silo at 1435 yards. We went back and cross-referenced the distance with. Some satellite imagery. We found that the actual distance was. One thousand four hundred. And thirty-three yards which was only two yards off vortex claims a variance of plus. Or minus three yards at. Any object fifteen hundred yards away. And our two yards off was well within the margin of error next. We tried another silo but with no luck. We couldn’t get a reading on the L o s mode. Or the HDD mode what we found out. We cross-referenced the satellite imagery again was.

This silo was over eighteen hundred yards away so outside of the capabilities of. This product all right you’re probably saying that’s good. Everything but John. Idon’t hunt silos I don’t hunt wheelbarrows. Ihunt non-reflective soft targets like deer bear elk. Iwas wondering the same thing so. Iwent out recruited. Some friends to help. Me not only was I able to connect on multiple animals under 100 yards but. Iwas also able to connect on cows at five fifty-five six forties. And seven hundred and eleven yards the next thing I wanted to do was test. This product in a low light scenario so. Iset my decoy up at fifty-nine yards. Itook my first reading at sunset. Itook my second reading thirty minutes after sunset which typically is the end of shooting hours the evening. Idid the low-light testing was just a.

Few days after the new moon so. Ididn’t get much help from the moon as far as additional light. Iwas easily able to make out the decoy. And range it 10 minutes after shooting light 20 minutes after shooting light as. You can see I ran out of camera light but. Iwas still able to pick up the decoy. And range and then 30 minutes after shooting late again with no camera light. Iwas able to just pick up the white on the belly of the whitetail so. This thing had low light capabilities almost a full hour after sunset. Or a half an hour after legal shooting hours just a disclaimer don’t hunt after legal shooting hours as. It is illegal but I just did. This to show how good. It worked in low-light the last thing I want to do is just touch on the scan mode again. What you can do is hold the measure button in. And just scan in everything the rangefinder hits it’s going to continually keep pumping out distances for you.

This works great in two different scenarios. One trying to pick up distances on really far away objects. It doesn’t take much. That measure button to bump. It a little bit if it’s on a tripod just hitting the button will bump. It enough you can miss a target completely at 12. Or 13 hundred yards. If you’re in scan mode. You can keep hovering around. That object until you get a good reading the second scenario. You guys have all been there you’re sitting in your stand you’re trying to range multiple trees around your stand to get an idea. How far away everything is there’s. One tree you’ve been trying to hit but every time. You range it you’re hitting some of the branches. Or brush and foreground again. If you’re in scan mode hold. That button down you can just hover until.

You find that hole. It gives you a reading right through to. That tree you’ll be good to go. All right I think that’s. Everything so let’s move on to pros cons. How much where to get the thing okay guys let’s talk about the pros the distance is checked out fine the accuracy checked out fine the angle compensation seemed to work great. You guys saw we had no issues with water. Ireally like the fact. That the display offered three different brightness es depending on how dark. Or light it is outside the scan mode was a cool feature in the utility clip is. Something that’s unique. That I’ll be taking advantage of. This fall ok let’s move over to cons the only possible issue. Ifound with this rangefinder is. If you’re that really wants a rangefinder that’s going to pick up objects less. That 10 yard mark you might want to look for something else otherwise. This rangefinder just checked out to be really solid ok guys I’m going to take.

One step further if you’re familiar with vortexes first range finder the Ranger 1000 after looking at countless reviews there were two things. That jumped off the page as potential negatives the first is customers weren’t thrilled. You had to push the button three times to get reading they fixed. That with this new rangefinder the 1500. You only have to do. Once to turn once to get a measurement. And the second thing is. Some people said the Ranger 1000 had a slower processor speed meaning you hit the button. You wait a little bit. And then you get your distance. Ihad no problems field testing the range of 1500. Ihit the button immediately got a distance no issues there. One of the limitations of. This video was I didn’t look at battery life whatsoever the good thing about. When you’re looking through the display on the rangefinder. It actually has a battery meter so. You guys can always see. What the battery life is on the rangefinder.

If for some reason this thing you know runs out of battery two. Or three months down the road I’ll put a comment below. This video to let you guys know. That hey the battery didn’t hold up alright so. Where do how much does. It cost a good thing to do would be to go over to Vortex’s website I’m going to leave the link below. This video in the information it’s always a good place to start but about four hundred. And eighty dollars and I’ve seen. It at Midway USA online Cabala’s Bass Pro Shop Sportsman’s Warehouse so. You can get it pretty much anywhere. You guys have local sports shops. That carry any of the vortex optics. They can get it for you to the last thing. Ido want to touch on is the warranty. That vortex has I usually don’t talk about warranties. Unless it’s a really good. This is a really good.

One so basically their VIP warranty says. If it’s got the vortex name on. It no receipts no registrations. Something goes wrong with. It to them, and they’re going to take care of. It hurts to lay out a lot of money for optics. Any optics not just. That kind of warranty to back. You can feel pretty good about making the one-time purchase. All right guys that’s. You liked the video make sure. You subscribe to the antlers core dot-com YouTube channel hit. That little red subscribe button we’ve been pumping out a video every two weeks for about the last seven months. And I’m going to take. One step further I’m going to give. You the $000 it costs to subscribe to my channel otherwise keep an eye out for my next video we’ll see.

To complete the programming we’ll use the measure. And menu buttons on top of the Ranger 1000 to begin simply press. And release the measure button briefly to bring up the display. Once the display is up press. And hold the menu button down for four seconds until the mode selection screen displays then release the button. Now you’re in the mode choice for HCD. Or l OS simply press the measure button briefly to toggle between HCD. And l OS press and released it’ll toggle back. And forth you in the mode choice. You prefer briefly press the menu button. It will save that setting now the display moves to the yards meters choice again simply press. And release the measure button briefly to toggle between yards. And meters once you’re in the mode. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. That setting the display. Now moves to the brightness choice use the measure button press.

And release briefly to toggle through three levels of brightness. Once you’re in the brightness. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. It the display now returns to HCD l OS. You have the settings. All set as you prefer. You can simply press. And hold the menu button for four seconds to save. These settings and exit the mode selection process. This can also be done at. Any time through the process well that’s. All there’s to know you’re. All set to take your Ranger 1000 out in the field.

All right guys so vortex rangefinder Ranger 1800 supposed to be able to range from nine yards up to. It said 1800 yeah 1800 yards on reflective targets non reflective from 9 yards to 900 so open. This up take a look inside. Now I was playing around with a demo unit. It was crystal clear so I’m get. This one out play around with. It and try to show. You guys structure book need. That just hope I’m doing this with. One hand so my lanyard it’s cute my lumpy god bless teeth oh what’s in there. It is so menu measure little belt clip don’t. You guys be able to see inside. It and doesn’t really do. Anything but uh see. If we can’t get that to focus in a little bit. When we go out and play with. This a little bit later so go ahead. And get the battery in. And try to show you guys. This thing in action stay tuned things instruct in their pickup on the tree.

That barn can’t really read. It but eight hundred. And forty-nine yards 243 yards so. This thing gets out there pretty good. And it is pretty bright so despite. What the camera shown with the flare. Now you can also change. All of that a brightness. That is in the neighbor’s house so as. You can see it’s pretty nice. It should make things a little bit easier it’s stupid clear real clear setting. That tree so there it is for ducks Ranger 18 hunters. And I do want to note. That you can change the. How am I trying to say the measurements. And if I have to focus in on. This between yards and meters with the button here. Ihave it set on yards George meters. And there’s your brightness setting. That I was telling you about so probably could have turned. It up before you guys I’ll just keep.

It on the medium side in there it’s nice it’s got the battery level down there too so alright she’s just a close-up of. This card again just. Because in the beginning it wasn’t very clear so doesn’t in. Both no end in no way so. That comes with it Oh Maynard probably never use I’ll tell. You I really like the texture of. It rubbery it feels like it’s its really nice in your hands buttons. Idon’t know you can hear them click. Or not but it’s a good feel so does the knack. We shut off so you don’t have to worry about. You know turn it off turn. It on I piece is adjustable for focus how’s your little boy. Or excuse me here tripod male. If you want to get real fancy. All right I gotta so that’s. It I’ve enjoyed you know the video. Anybody looking to purchase. It I hope that helped clear. It up a little bit for you vortex Ranger 1800 so. You know like subscribe. And I will see you guys next time.

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Everybody how to do a my name’s Eric remainder I’m here at the 2018 ata show in Indianapolis. Or at the night comm booth. Some amazing new products. One in particular this is the monarch 3000 stabilize the name says. This is a three thousand yard rangefinder with image stabilization in. It reduces hand movement by eighty percent. It is wind cold adrenaline has 89 degrees. You can go and range down top. Or bottom seven-and-a-half degree field of view has a new hyper read so. You will get your distance no matter the range. And point three seconds true target system priority in here so. You have a buck mixed in with a bunch of dozes. It is in front or behind. You can select first. Or second target priority system with. It has eight seconds of continuous ranging so. You don’t need to be pushing the button to arrange. Everything push hold. It will continuously scan. And again this goes out to 3000 yards inclined decline technology has. All the bells and whistles MSRP of. This is going to be for 1995 so a very competitive price point for all the whistles inherit that’s going to be an amazing product make sure. You come by 2018 shot show there’s gonna be a lot. Than Nikon reducing.

Hey guys Sam here this is going to be a real quick first look first impressions type short review of the new BR 2500 a ballistic range finder from g7 okay the unit itself is about 5 by 5 by 2 inches thick it’s a little over 14 ounces. It is ip55 water-resistant so basically. That means is it is a fairly waterproof but. You can’t submerge now I’ve been told by gun works. It will withstand rain no problem. It will stand condensation. You know hot to cold things like. Ihaven’t tested yet that’s coming up soon so. It runs on one cr123 battery. You access right here in the front very easy to replace it’s rated for eight hours of continuous use. Idon’t know that translates into number of ranges but. Ihave not any problem with battery life it’s a seven power optic. It actually has very good glass in. It as far as quality its optically speaking it’s very high quality. Any problem with seeing stuff as far as.

Ican see at least at seven power. It has a focus ring right here on the back so. You can focus in on your target. It comes with a tethered cap to protect the ocular side the ocular side has clicked detent so. You can run and out so. You wear glasses no problem. You can just run you don’t. You can run and it’ll stay in place. It has a tether hook to. It the carrying case has a retractable deal inside of. You could hook to you pull. It out of the carrying case is kind of got. This spring tension. You can pull you get in a hurry. Or get excited whatever. And let go of it’ll stay hooked to. That pouch so that’s kind of cool feature. Another cool thing about.

This rangefinder is. It has a built in quarter twenty socket right in the bottom of. You can hook a tripod head. Whatever I have my detachable Manfrotto plate hooked into. Ican put it rights on my tripod a very good feature for long distance ranging of targets okay a little full disclosure. This is actually the second unit. That I’ve looked at the first. One worked spectacularly. It was great little rangefinder. Any problems with it to Wyoming but. One of the things I noticed. Iwas doing my standard reticle versus laser beam alignment test is. It was offset a little bit down to the bottom left corner of the reticle so as long as we’re talking about. That it’s talking about laser beams. This has a three-quarter mil by. And a half mil laser so the beam divergence is pretty low on. This it’s quite an improvement over the last.

One it’s laid out horizontally so it’s exactly twice as wide as. It is tall but the thing I noticed was. That the laser was actually down in the bottom left corner. And overlapping the reticle so gun works is great to work with. II brought it up with them. Isaid no big deal you know. Ican use it as is. Iunderstand it to Wyoming bounce. Some antelope over a thousand yards with. It out in the sagebrush so. You know from a functional standpoint. It was no big deal but. They said they’d prefer just to send. Me a new I just got three days ago. It is spot on is right the money right in the middle of. That reticle so full disclosure. This is the second one I’ve looked at. Yet to get one out to its max range. Ijust bounced a tree at 20 119 yards straight away from the camera there was Sun on. Everything so I have no doubt.

One will get to 2500 the unit itself is rated from 10 to 2500 the other rangefinder the first. Igot the first night. It out in the woods. Ibounced 2500 yards with. It will get there as far as the short distance I’ve actually ranged down to 8 yards with. One already so it’ll go a little bit lower. Then 10 so if you’re an archery hunter no problem there okay. This reads in yards only there’s actually a meters version of. That gun works exports out of the US. They told that they’re gonna make. It available very soon in the US market as well so. If you’re looking for one. That reads in meters it’s coming but. This unit only reads in yards. You can’t toggle back. And forth between yards.

And meters okay this is a ballistic rangefinder meaning. It has the capability to provide. You with a ballistic solution to shoot long range. It will give you a correction out to 1400 yards. You can set it up to give. You the correction in. Either a bullet drop compensator so. You have a turret or a reticle that’s designed to shoot two different yardages depending on what the conditions are it’ll give. That correction it’ll also give. You a straight up correction a minute of angle mil radians. Or inst drop inches so a number of inches drop to the target it’ll give. You corrections for I use minute of angles so. Ihave a set up to give.

Me a straight up minute of angle correction. And it’ll give you a correction to 1/10 MOA resolution so in other words twenty-four point two minutes of angle twenty-four point three minutes of angle it’ll give. You those Corrections it’ll also give. You a win correction it’s its pretty simple it’s a pretty. Idon’t want to say a crude setup but. It is basically a 90 degree full angle wind correction. And we’ll give it to. You from five miles to 30 miles per hour in five mile an hour increments so every time. You range the target. It gives you your elevation correction. This front arrow it’ll give. You 5 10 15 20 25 or 30 every time. You push that button so at least. You have something what I’ve been doing is. Ijust leave it on 10 so. You range something hit. That arrow wherever. You were the last time is. Where it’s going to be.

It set on 10 miles an hour. And then I just use. You know I have a 45 degree wind. Or a 90 degree wind but it’s 8 miles an hour then I’m going to use 80% of. And so forth and so on so at least it’s there right in the unit okay to give. You those Corrections. You have to have a gun profile built into the unit so right inside. You build your gun profiles it’ll store five different ones. Each gun profile can be named with up to eight characters. Either numbers or letters. And then it’s basically like doing any other ballistics solver. You input your g1 or g7 drag standard. You put in your muzzle velocity. You put in your sight height. You put in your zero range. Now the zero range doesn’t have to be 100. It can be any distance which is kind of cool. Ijust use 100 yards so. That function was pretty much wasted on. You use the BDC as the drop unit. You also can put in your turret temperature. And turret elevations so.

You have a custom turret built. You can input that was calibrated for now. Idon’t use BDC, so I’m not gonna spend a lot of time talking about. That function because quite frankly. Idon’t know enough about. It but it’s built right into. This rangefinder now the other cool thing about. This rangefinder is. You can edit you can do. All of your trajectory validation right on the unit so. You go out and shoot. That your corrections too high. Or too low you can go right in here. And adjust the muzzle velocity. Or adjust the bullet the bullets BC so. What I did was I just took the corrections. Ibuilt my profiles. All the correction data in other words the input the BC velocity. That right off my Kestrel by 5700 elite. And input it rights into. This rangefinder and then. It out in the woods. And bounced all the way out to 1400 yards which is max range. And from 200 to 1400 yards as. It was in within 1/10 of a minute of angle of my Kestrel so good enough for me okay as a ballistic rangefinder the BR 2500 has its own onboard sensors.

That will measure station pressure. And inches of mercury temperature. And Fahrenheit and inclination to the target those things are always updating so. You range a target at 1400 yards. It will give you a correction based on those conditions. You want to use this as a straight up rangefinder. You can just select. When you’re in the menu screen to say range only. It just works like a regular rangefinder the thing. That sets us apart a little bit is. If you’re fourteen hundred yards. You range a target it will give. You the line-of-sight range. And then it will give. You the horizontal distance as well right after. That first number no over 1400 yards doesn’t give. Anything except the range. Any time you want to know. What the station pressure is. Or the temperature or the inclination angle. You can just press this front arrow after. You range a target and it’ll give.

All those numbers so. If you’re using a ballistic solver. You want to input numbers into. You can use this to measure those environmental conditions just like. You would on a Kestrel. It also gives you a an approximate altitude based on pressure so. If you’re using something. You want to put the altitude in instead of station pressure. That option is there. All right guys there’s my little spiel on the BR 2500 look for our full review coming into December. Iwant to use this through the rest of hunting season. And for the next month. Or, so I’m going to use only the BR 2500 for every shot. That requires a rangefinder. Some of my initial thoughts on. This rangefinder is.

It works very well I think with the three-quarter by. And a half mil laser beam divergence. It is accurate enough to use on small targets at long range such as antelope out. And sagebrush this to Wyoming and. Iactually range some antelope from prone laying down behind the gun. And had no problem with. You know time will tell on how the water resistance is. Iget through deer season here it’s late October. And North Idaho it’s gonna be wet. Iguarantee I don’t think I’m gonna have a problem. You know if you’re interested in. Something like this that’s a full-featured rangefinder with a ballistic solver in. You could certainly do worse. Then checking out the BR 2500 but look for. That review in December until then thanks for watching see.

This is Andy Backus from long range hunting comm today I’m going to be going over the Sig Sauer kilo 2480 s ballistic rangefinder. This is a exciting new ballistic rangefinder. That does some pretty complex calculations so. You can just push one button get a range to your target. And get a ballistic solution. And a wind hold solution. Though the computer inside is doing some pretty complicated things I’ll show. That it’s actually very easy to work with very easy to program. And get set up and running I’ll show. How to find the app. And load it onto your phone enter your information to create your ballistic profiles load them onto the kilo 2400. And then get up and running and using the kilo 2400 so let’s get started right away okay the first thing I’m going to do to get my kilo 2400 up. And running is to download the kilo 2400 apps onto my phone I’ve got an Android phone it’s a galaxy s6 so a. Few years old and the first thing I do is go to the Play Store. And search for kilo 2400 abs. And I’ve searched for. That before so that shows up. And there it is I’m going to click on the kilo 2400 abs app.

And click install I’m going to accept their terms. And the download will start. And then it will install. Ican open and telling you. That it’s adding a shortcut to. This app on my home screen, so they’re the app is. Now installed and the next step. Now is to connect the app to the kilo 2400 rangefinders itself using the Bluetooth so the first thing I would do is go into my phone settings. And make sure that my bluetooth is turned on the Bluetooth is. That little bowtie looking icon. And it’s blue because it’s turned on I’m going to turn. It off so it makes sure. That’s turned on. It on usually opens the screen. That shows devices nearby. That are available for Bluetooth. Though my kilo 2400 is right here it’s not noticing it. And the reason is that the kilo 2400 is asleep right. Ineed to wake it up by just pushing the fire button. And then on my phone.

It doesn’t automatically find. That just because I’ve woken. It up, so I’m going to click done I’m going to go back to my bluetooth I’m going to turn. And back on I’m going to hit. This fire button on the range finder again just to make sure. That it’s still awake. Now there’s my kilo 2400 ready for pairing and. Ihit the fire button again just to make sure. It stays awake later. We get into some settings I’ll show. You can extend the time before the kilo 2400 times out. And goes to sleep but for right. Now since we’re not getting into the settings. Yet I’ll just hit the fire button a. Few times it shows. That my kilo 2400 is paired, so I’ll click done. You look in the upper right corner on the app under settings. It says kilo — lrf question mark want to click on. That shows my kilo 2400. Even shows the serial number I’ll click on.

Now in the upper right corner of the app. It shows I am paired between the app. And the kilo 2400 so that’s the very first couple of steps in getting up. And running with here kilo 2400. And the applied ballistics app next we’re going to get into. Some settings okay we’ve got the kilo 2400 apps loaded on my phone. Now let’s go through. Some basic settings right away so in the upper right corner. You see the word setting click on. These are mostly a chance to change the units of measure. That you’re going to use in the app itself so let’s go through them the first. One is temperature I leave mine on Fahrenheit pressure units are inches of mercury. Or millibar I leave mine on mercury. And target speed would be. You wanted to calculate a moving target hold but otherwise wind speed I’m going to leave as mile miles per hour. Then meters per second distance units the default is meters, so I’ve got to go in.

And change mine to yards gun parameters English. Or metric I’ll leave — English density altitude units. That leave — feet now here’s the setting for the kilo sweep time so. You have a chance to extend the time after. You push the fire button on the kilo 2400 for the digital display inside the kilo 2400 to stay up. And running so I’m going to change. This to 180 seconds. Igo back a screen I’m disconnected, so I’m going to fire my kilo 2400 to connect. It to the app and then. That change I just made to the sleep time will automatically happen. And then I’ll go back to settings. And finish talking about those keep screen on. That would be working in the app on your phone. You want the phone to timeout like. It normally would when you’re looking at.

Some sort of app on your phone. That isn’t being actively used. It on indefinitely, so I’ll change mine to stay on so. While I’m working in. It’ll stay on for me then the next thing is compass calibration which is sort of advanced feature. When you’re going to in operate Coriolis calculations we’ve got to make sure. That the compass heading. That the kilo 2400 is giving us is accurate so down the road I’ll get into showing you. How to do a compass calibration but for now. Iwill just skip and move on to the next thing okay the next thing I’m going to do right away is created my first ballistic profile for one of my guns so from the main screen here I’m going to click on gun profiles.

And in the upper right I’m going to click on. That little plus sign. That takes me to a profile creation page. And at the top right I’m going to click on new profile I’m going to enter the name for my first gun call. It a d7 Dakota I have the option to manually input the bullet dimensions. And the ballistic coefficient but I’m going to go into the applied ballistic library on the upper right. And use their information I’m going to start with 284 Berger hybrid. You can choose g1 you can use the applied ballistics custom curve. They say that that is the. Most accurate especially. It incorporates transgenic. And subsonic I’m used to using g1 so in. This case I’m going to stick with my g1. Now it’s populated the bullet data with the important information so next is going to be muzzle velocity temperature 29 36 feet per second by zero range is going to be 100 yards site height the distance from the center of your scope tube to the center of the bore.

This gun it happens to be 175 inches so I’m going to leave. It there zero height. And zero offset gives. You a chance to after a small distance. That your zero group was off of actual center of what you’re aiming for at a hundred yards so in other words. You your group was actually a quarter of an inch high. You could enter that as your zero height I’m just going to say. That my zero was right on at 100 yards. And leave those blank. And the last thing is twist rate in minus nine. And by the way that with my phone. When you’re done entering information. You want to get that keyboard out of the way you’ve got to hit the back symbol. Me a little while to figure. That out now down below is kind of advanced feature MV temp table that’s muzzle velocity temp table that’s giving you the opportunity to enter.

Some muzzle velocities. That are specific to a given temperature. And kind of train the ballistics to adjust for temperature as far as muzzle velocity goes that’s pretty advanced that’s important for pretty extreme long-range shots that’s not. Something I’ve ever done in the past. And I’m going to skip. That here and then the last thing listed at the bottom is drop scale calibrated. That has to do with true in your ballistic data. Or calibrating your ballistic data so after you’ve got. Everything entered and your kilo 2400 gives. You your ballistic solution at different yardages. You shoot those yardages the first time. And figure out that the actual number of minutes. You needed to adjust your scope to is slightly different. What the kilo 2400 is telling you. It gives you a chance to enter the real-world data at. Several distances. And then the applied ballistics calculation does. Some pretty complex calculations to calibrate your ballistics. And get them to be a hundred percent perfect.

That’s common practice with just about. Any ballistic calculator. All of the data that’s being entered is just a little too imperfect to expect to enter data into a ballistic computer. And have it is absolutely perfect for real-world conditions so the calibration is kind of advanced feature. Iwill get into much later so for now I’ve entered. Everything I want to enter for this first ballistic profile. And I’m going to hit save in the upper right. That brings me back to the gun profile screen. You can see that first profile is. Now saved and next we’ll get into. How to load that onto the kilo 2400 itself alright so the next thing to do is to sync. This newly created profile to my kilo 2400. You look in the upper left corner again. It says disconnected, so I’ve got to wake up my kilo 2400 by hitting the fire button.

It connected and I’ve got. That set for the kilo 2400 to stay awake for 3 minutes. It should stay connected. While I’m thinking I’m going to click. This little circle to the right of the profile to show. Iwant to sync that profile to the kilo 2400. And I’m going to hit the sync square in the upper right. That it’s syncing the gun profile. Now here’s a good chance to mention. You can save up to a hundred ballistic profiles on the kilo 2400 app buts. You can only have up to four profiles on the kilo 2400 itself at a time. If you’ve let’s say loaded four profiles on to the kilo 2400. You want to load a different profile on. You choose just one new profile to think. You sync it over there. One profile is going to replace the four. That we’re on there. And the floor that around there are going to disappear so every time. You make any changes to the profiles on the kilo 2400 itself.

You have to think all the profiles. You want on the kilo 2400 over there. Each time not a big deal but just have to remember. You can’t just replace. One profile at a time on the kilo 2400 it’s an all-or-nothing kind of thing so. That profile synced over to the kilo 2400. All set to go to show. How to work in the kilo 2400 with. That first profile so we’ll do. That next actually quicker thing I wanted to mention is. When the profiles are synced over to the kilo 2400 on the kilo 2400 they’re just named Pro 1 pro 2 pro 3 pro 4 so pro 1 won’t show up as a d7 Dakota. Ilook at it inside the kilo 2400 so. One little thing to remember is. That you’ll have to have.

Some way to remember which profile is which. If you’re not going to have access to your phone to double check within the app so maybe a cheat sheet somewhere. That says a d7 Dakota equals pro 1. That would be especially important. You were going to switch between profiles out in the field so maybe. You had two shooters who are going to share. One kilo 2400 and need to be able to switch back. And forth between the different profiles. And want to make sure. They don’t make a mistake they’d probably want to have a cheat sheet to remember. What profile 1 was what profile 2 was for example ok. Now we’re looking through the kilo 2400 I’m going to kind of black.

It out so you can see the display better the 2400 just has two buttons. It has a range button on top. And a mode button on the side I’m going to hit the range button to wake. And I’m going to hold the mode button down on the side. We get into programming mode. And the first options are the ranging mode line-of-sight. Or angle modified range. If you’re using the kilo 2400 without a ballistic solution. You can choose for the actual line of sight range. You can have the range corrected for the angle so obviously an archery hunter might use. That angle modified range. And a rifle hunter as well so. One other important thing to remember. Though is if you’re going to use the kilo 2400 to give. You a ballistic solution. It has to be set in line of sight range not angle modified range the ballistic computer will factor in the angle so don’t worry about the fact.

That it’s not on Amr rather leave. It on L OS and by the way I’m clicking on the range button to cycle back. And forth through these two options, so I’m going to leave. It on LS then I’m going to hit them load button. This gets into the profile selection no pro would be used. You didn’t want a ballistic solution. You just wanted to get a range. You can select from profile. One two three or four I’m going to obviously select profile. One since I just synced. It on here and then I’m going to hit the mode button again. Iget into the settings for profile. One specifically this is wind direction. And I’m hitting the range button to cycle through the directions on the clock. Or the times on a clock. Ilike to leave mine set at three o’clock which is a full value side wind crosswind so three o’clock hit the mode button wind speed.

Ican choose from miles per hour. Or meters per second get the mode button again. And here’s I set my wind speed. If I’m going to have a standard wind speed in there. And sort of extrapolate from there. Iusually like to use a five-mile per hour full value crosswind, so I’m going to set. This to give get the mode button again. This gets lets me choose between my solution. Or mill hit it again best. And last is the range finding mode best is. What I use pretty much. All the time last would be used to ignore brush. Or grass in front of a target. And only give you the range to the last thing it sees but. Igenerally use the best setting I’ll hit mode again.

This is the brightness setting auto works fantastic on the kilo 2400. It automatically changes the brightness so. If it’s real dark out. You want a real dim display so. It doesn’t wash out your picture. If it’s real bright out. You need a real bright display to be able to see. You can manually set. It but I’d recommend always leaving it on auto so. You don’t make a mistake. And have a problem you know. You pull up the kilo 2400. And the display is way too bright for the conditions. Or was too dim for the conditions leave. It on auto hit mode again. You can choose from three reticles. Ialways just use the circle reticle here’s. You can choose yards. Or meters I’ll use yards Bluetooth on. Once you’ve synced the ballistic profile to the unit to the kilo 2400. If you’re going to use the kilo 400 on its own.

And not use any of the advanced features available on the ballistic app. Iwould turn the Bluetooth off so. That you’re not using up battery having the kilo 2400 try to connect to. Something if you want to use the ballistic app with the kilo 2400 which we’ll get into later than you’d want to leave the Bluetooth on I’m going to turn. That off now I’ve cycled through. All the menu options. And I’m back to the beginning and I’m. All set for my first profile. Ican start using it to get range. And a ballistic solution. That we’ve got everything set the way. We want for profile. One I’m going to take a range out the back door of my store here so. Iapologize for the road noise I’m going to arrange those power poles off in the distance.

And show how the display looks. How the ballistic solution is displayed, so I’ll just wake up the range finder by hitting the range button. And then I’m going to hold down the range button. And do a scan mode it works so well on a small target like. And you’ll see it just cycles through the distance to target of a thousand 73 yards. And below that it’ll show the angle to target. One degree angle in. This case the next number is the elevation hold in minutes. This case its twenty-six point nine two minutes up. And then it will show the wind holds based on. That five mile per hour three o’clock crosswind. We entered of one point nine six minutes. It cycles through those numbers.

Several times to give. You a chance to see them. And then it times out. And it’s ready to take. Another range next I want to talk a little bit. More about wind cold solution using the kilo 2400. Italked about extrapolating using a standard wind direction. And speed that can get a little bit complicated with the kilo. Because the kilo is calculating spin drift. And aerodynamic jump along with Coriolis effect so there’s a fair number of things to consider. When using a standard number. And trying to extrapolate from there so the best solution is really to enter a specific wind direction. And speed and there’re two ways to do. You can do it on the phone. And sync it to the kilo 2400 buts. Ican cycle through the menu settings on the kilo 2400 itself pretty quickly. And make the change in the field. Idon’t want to have to be messing around with my phone out in the field, so I’ll show.

How to do that I’ll wake. It up by hitting the range button I’ll hold down the mode button. And then I’ll just cycle to the wind direction let’s change. It to nine o’clock and wind speed let’s change. That to 13 miles per hour. And then cycle through quickly the rest of the settings until. You get back to home. And then take your range. And you’re ready to go. You can see the elevation has changed along with the wind. That has to do with aerodynamic jump so with a specific wind direction. And speed enter into the kilo 2400 I’m really confident in my ballistic solution. Now let’s talk about. We can use the app and phone to work with the wind direction. Some other things and sync to the kilo 2400, so I’m on the home screen of the app. And by the way the first thing I needed to do was go back into the settings on the kilo 2400 itself.

And turn the Bluetooth back on so. It would be connected to my app. And I’m going to go to the heads-up display screen. You can see below the zeros. It shows that the wind speed of 13 miles per hour. And direction of 9 o’clock is showing based on what I just changed on the kilo 2400 itself. Now I’m going to take a range with the kilo 2400 on. That same set of power poles. You can see that the ballistic information appears on the app right away. Ican go out of this heads-up display screen. And into the environment screen. Ican make a change to the wind speed. And direction I can choose the direction. And make a change to the speed. And then I hit sync right away. That sends that information to my kilo 2400. And the next time I take a range with the kilo it’s going to use. That five mile-per-hour three o’clock winds go out of the head environment screen back to the heads-up screen.

It shows that wind speed of five miles per hour. And three o’clock is going to be used next so. Itake a range again I’ll get my new solution using the five. And three o’clock the other thing I can talk about on. This screen is the range button on the left side that’s used to remotely fire the range remotely take a range from the kilo 2400. Icould see that being handy. Iwas trying to really max out the maximum range. Ican get with the kilo 2400. Either because of a very long distance. Or maybe an imperfect target. Ihad two kilo 2400 mounted on a tripod. Icould aim it at the target. And then use this remote button to fire. And not wiggle the kilo 2400 at. And probably max out. That range as much as. Ican there is another option for entering a wind speed. And that’s to use the included wind meter. That plugs into your phone. And then either in the heads-up display screen.

Or the environmental screen the wind speed coming from the wind meter will be shown. And it’ll vary as the wind varies. Any given moment you can hit the sync button. And the wind speed at. That moment then will be synced to the kilo 2400. That will be the wind speed. That will be used for the calculation. Some older phones may have trouble pairing with the wind meter. Some new phones don’t have a headphone jack anymore. And won’t work for the wind meter but for most phones. It will work just fine. And it’s kind of novel way to handle wind speed built right into the system. And then just quicker comment on. Another way to handle wind hold solution with the kilo 2400. You could set the wind speed to zero. And take Wyn solution out of the mix still get your spin drift solution. And Coriolis and then handle your wind. Another way like a chart on the side of your gun the next screen in the app I’d like to talk about is the target screen the target screen is used for sort of advanced feature which would be to incorporate a moving target into your ballistic solution so the kilo 2400 senses the compass heading and inclination.

Or angle of the shot. And automatically fills. That into the app you can manually enter the target speed. And target direction but. What I really want to talk about is the latitude setting the latitude is manually adjusted. It comes defaulted to 40 degrees here in Wisconsin. Ineed to change mine to 43 degrees so. It enters and then think. Now my latitude is set correctly for where. Iam the significance of. That mainly has to do with Coriolis effect calculations Coriolis is a pretty minor ingredient in the ballistic calculation until. You get out to fairly long range but at fairly long range it’s pretty important in order for the Coriolis to be correctly calculated. That latitude needs to be entered correctly so. When you’re setting up your kilo 2400 go in. And edit that latitude in the target screen. And then remember if you’re heading to a different location to hunt. Or to shoot you may need to go in. And adjust that latitude so. More thing to mention related to getting an accurate Coriolis calculation.

You have it in your power to confirm. That the compass heading the kilo 2400 is giving you is accurate. And the way to do that is to compare. It to an actual compass. And have the kilo 2400 am due north. And confirm that it’s the same as the compass reading and. If it’s not the same there’s a way to calibrate the compass reading in the kilo 2400 go back to the home screen go to. That setting screen in the upper right corner. And down at the bottom is compass calibration. This will walk you through. How to calibrate the compass built into the kilo 2400 by basically rotating the unit a. Few different times. And having it kind of resent north well. You found this video informative.

And helpful you feel like. Although the kilo 2400 is a very impressive fairly complicated piece of machinery it’s actually fairly straightforward. And user-friendly to program. And get up and running and use. Ireally look forward to using mine in the future. Ilove its small size incredibly accurate ballistic computer the fact. It incorporates the environmental sensors right into the solution. And it’s a one-button almost immediate ballistic solution so. Ican’t wait to keep using mine. We have the kilo 2400 for sale at the long range hunting store. If you’re in the market. Any technical questions. You can call us at nine to zero three seven six two zero. One zero and check out our website long-range hunting comm you.

I’m John McCoy with 85 41 tactical. And I’m coming to you today with a real quick unboxing video of. This guy right here. This is the cig kilo 2400 abs range finder. Iam really excited about. Now sig has been making range finders for a. And they’ve had a variety of them out on the market but. This is a civilian legal range finder. That is advertised to be able to range out to two miles so. Iam really excited about. This I’ve got a variety of laser rangefinders here. They usually work out to. That 1000 yard limit. Or so on non reflective targets. And then at that point. They really start to peter out. And accuracy is hit. You may be able to actually get lock on your target. You may not a lot of times. You got to break out the tripod. And set them on a tripod a lot of times you’ve got to go to. Some great extents and lays things around them. And scan back and forth to try to get a lock so the fact. One advertises two-mile range means. That there shouldn’t be. Any problems actually getting a lock on targets in. One mile area most of the matches. Igo to are not ELR matches. Or extended long range matches. They are standard PRS style matches. And the longest shots on those are usually around a thousand to twelve hundred yards sometimes they’ll put a confidence target way out at like 1600. Something but most targets are well within. This is advertising. That is able to range to 2 miles. Idon’t think we’re gonna have.

Any problems ranging with 1 mile, but we’ll get. It out in the wild and actually see. How well that works the kilo 2400 abs also has. Some really interesting other tricks up its sleeve. It is a combined total ballistic solution so. It does have an inbuilt ballistic calculator in. You should be able to program. It for your gun and be able to utilize. It to come up with your full ballistic solution that’s. Where the apply ballistics part of. It comes with we have been using applied ballistics based ballistic calculators in. Either our Kestrel or on smartphone etc for some time. You put accurate information into them. You tend to get a very accurate firing solution back so. That is really neat but before. We get on too much more ado let’s go ahead. And open the box and let’s see. What is inside here.

This just showed up. It just showed up FedEx just dropped the box off. Icut the outer cardboard box off of. It fired up the cameras. We are gonna open it up so. Ihave already cut the seals so. Idon’t cut myself here playing with a knife but let’s see. What we have inside. It is a really nice outer box. It matters not at all to the quality of the product but. It just adds to that whole experience. You drop 1500 bucks on a laser rangefinder little things become important, so they’ve got. This really nice hard box. You just cut the safety seal. And open we have a owner’s manual in here for the rangefinder. It seems to be a fairly thick owner’s manual so may be a good idea to read through. We come through here just dump. It out here we have a nice pouch let’s go ahead. And open this guy so again. That we’re paper pretty expensive rangefinder.

It comes with a really nice setup already you’ve got a front zippered area which. Iam quite sure will probably be used to store the manual. And then by the way the fact is MOLLE compatible so. You can put this on the outside of your pack. That coyote color it’s a little bit. More pale than for instance my everly stock gun slingers so. It won’t blend him perfectly but it’s a really nice overall padded pouch. This guy up inside we have batteries looks like. These in or their CR twos, so we’ve got three CR two batteries in here. And nice little elastic battery holder. It looks like we’ve got a pen here. This is a boor pen. It is branded with the cig emblem. We have a stylus on. It looks like that’s kind of neat. And then pen on the other end. And here I am unscrewing it. It is backwards so that’s pretty slick put.

That aside oh we’ve got a little clip I’m not entirely certain exactly. That goes to lanyard. We have the rangefinder itself. It is in a smaller padded pouch. It just has a belt strap on the back of. That is really cool. That way you don’t want to carry. This big old guy maybe. You don’t want to strap. Anything extra to the outside your pack then. You can throw this in a pocket on your pack. And be good to go it’s nice little elastic pull down loop there so. It is very quiet opening you don’t have to worry about ripping velcro for those of. You guys that are hunters out there. And so really quite nice and silent to open. And then we have the actual unit itself, so we’ll set.

That aside for right. Because we’ve got more accessories in here. We have a tripod mount so the unit slides inside here. Iwant to force it rights. Now will go in here. And we’ll figure out exactly. What we need to do to get unit in to the tripod. Nothing more in that pocket. And then we have a weather flow wind meter right here so. This will go into your smartphone. And interface with the ballistic app. And you’ll be able to use. That to get a wind speed so. That is really cool still not sure. What this guy is for as my first time busting into. This stuff, so we’ll have to get in here. And take a look and see exactly. What this do I almost wonder. This is for the Apple adapter cord. You have a later generation iPhone like. Ido then you cannot plug. This directly into the iPhone. You have to utilize a 35 millimeter to lightning adapter so.

Iwonder if that’s. What this guy is for to be able to hold. You have the adapter on your phone but. We actually do the review I’ll come back. And tell you about. What we have in the overall package that’s. Nothing left in the pouch but. That is really cool. One reason that I’m kind of stoked. They give this little pouch is. One of the things that excites. Most about the cig kilo is. How compact this guy is. It is a seven power magnification on. This rangefinder it is compact. And really lightweight. It has a lanyard hole on here so there would be no problem with putting the lanyard on. You can sling this around your neck. And just tuck it inside of your shirt. And it’s really not going to be in the way so. You have one of these stages. And a match you need to lase targets on the run the fact. This will give you the ballistic solution. Everything means you can throw. You can lay the target tuck. It back into your shirt dye your solution on. Or hold your solution on your gun fire hit.

And move on to the next target. And not worry about fumbling with your rangefinder. Some other rangefinders around here. That are very large boxes y-you can hang them around your neck on a strap. They get in the way. They bounce off of stuff so. This is really nice. This could very easily go into a cargo pocket. And it’s really not going to get in the way so especially for law enforcement shooters. That need compact lightweight gear. If you’re wearing a plate carrier. Some kind of outer body armor. You can very easily tuck. This into a pocket and of course for military snipers anytime. You can lighten that load out then. That is just absolutely awesome. Even says here designed by Sig Sauer. And Oregon and assembled in the USA so. Another really nice thing if that’s. Something that matters to. It does matter to these guys are put together here in the US. And it’s really just overall a really cool design. Ican’t give you a full review obviously. Ijust opened the box just pull the guy out here.

Ihave used previous generations think you’ll arrange binders. That are owned by other shooters out at various different matches. And competitions but. Ihave not yet use the kilo 2400 abs so. Iam really excited to get. This guy out in the field play with. It plays with all the different various accessories. How well it works believe. This is a really silly thing but I’m pretty excited too about the boor pen here. Iuse pens quite a bit I’m a little bit of a sucker for quality pens so. This is a pretty slick little deal. That will probably get thrown into my everyday carry rotation so the boor pen is a nice touch so overall I’m excited to get. This out and play with. Ireally really want to thank sig electrostatics for sending this out to. Me to play with that way. Ican get you guys my honest review on. You guys have any questions. Or comments on the sig kilo 2400 ABS please go ahead. And drop them in the in section down below. Or send them to us on Facebook.

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Hi I’m a New York with sig sauer electrostatics we’re here at the 27 bar ranch in Oregon about 20 miles outside of Madras. We figured we come our today to demo the new kilos mm rangefinder. What you’re gonna find on. You can hit reflective targets out of 30 400 yards. You can hit trees and rocks. It comfortably at 1500 yards often times up to 2000 yards. And you’ll hit deer. And man-sized objects at about 1200 yards what’s revolutionary about the kilo it’s got a proprietary new circuit board. That our engineers designed. It lights wave DSP and the two components. That make it such a powerful rangefinder is the distance capability coupled with the scan rate. You basically use this rangefinder. You can use just a point-and-shoot method with a single button push like. Most range finders we recommend. You keep it in scan mode in scan mode. It goes into hyper scan. It scans four times per second so out at distances of 1500 yards it’s not just the capability of the laser. And the divergence of the laser beam. That allow us to hit distant targets but. It scans that fast its samples so quickly in scan mode. You can wash over a target at far distance. And you’ll know that you’re on the right target a lot of times. You do a head-to-head competition it’s difficult to say.

You aimed at the same target. You ranged in the same ambient lighting conditions so. What we’ve set up here is with two of the other major range finders on the market. We put the kilo in the center. And we’ve got flanking the kilo on. Either side one of the competitive range finders. And we’ve got three GoPros set up behind. And we’ve aligned these out at 500 yards to the exact same target. What we’re gonna do here in a minute is we’re gonna loosen up our tripod base here. And we’re gonna swivel at different targets. And you’ll see in real-time. How fast these range finders are versus. How good they pick up light. And dark targets how quick the scan rate is in the refresh rate. And it’s a head-to-head competition in the same light on the same targets at the same point in time. Ithink you’ll see the kilo mm rangefinder a really good job you.

We are at the glorious Lake Bar Umba. What a pristine glorious delightful autumn day it’s very hot but it’ll cool down soon enough we’ve come out here for two reasons number. One we’ll go and fish in. And number two we are going to go. Some rangefinder e goodness. One of the few places. Icould find that’s worth coming to. That actually has enough range to max out my little sig kilo 1250 rangefinders on a reflective target. That reflective target is the damn wall from about 1400 meters away it’s got a nice Bank picked out picked. It out on Google Maps so hopefully we’ll catch. Some fish, and we’ll get our video back your toys All righty so I just had the boys drop. Me off over here on the other side of the dam, so I’ve got a nice clear shot over to the dam wall so let’s unbox a little cig. What it’s got to offer so as. You can see this is the cig kilo 1250 it’s a six by twenty. Ididn’t pay for nineteen for it but that’s. What the sticker says but. Ithink 389 for it was on special at the time. And since then it has gone up just a little bit I’ve seen a. Few of them online at various shops for between five. And six hundred dollars sometimes. Even over six hundred dollars but at the time the price point represented a good sort of high value option.

It wasn’t the most expensive. It wasn’t the cheapest. It has quite a bit of good solid range on. It says it will do up to sixteen hundred yards reflective trees at 950. And a soft target like a deer at 750 yards so for those of. Everybody else in the rest of the world. That uses the metric system 1600 yards is about fourteen hundred. And fifty meters or there abouts. And that’s approximately. How far away from the dam wall. Now so hopefully that will work as a reflective target so. You open the box you get a nice little lanyard. You also get a cr2 battery. That comes with it but I’ve already put. This lovely little cig case.

It has a belt loop on the back it’s made from corduroy. Something like it feels like called Jura sig brand on the front. This lovely little pull tab instead of a press-stud. Or velcro so you can open. And close it nicely. And it’s quiet which is good. And that’s a good choice for a hunting optic so pulling it out. What it looks like we’ve got a mode button right here. We have the range button here. It is very simple to operate. You simply pick it up to your eye Lac so look through. And then put the reticle over. What you want and then click the range button. It will give you the range. That you’re looking for it has. One mode for the range. You click and hold the mode button. It will bring up your options list. And you’re able to set. It for direct range so from like from A to B in a straight line disregarding the angle of elevation.

You can go ahead and use the angle modified range mode which is ideal for ballistics. You are say you’re ranging the top of a mountain. Something like and you’re aiming up it’s going to give. You the exact relevant ballistic range not the point-to-point range so. It will modify its distance. It spits out for the angle. That will be affecting the round. That you’re going to shoot so. Ireally like I think that’s a great idea. And that’s that’s pretty much. Ialways leave I never really changed. It to point distance. Even when I’m using it for other stuff like measuring out paddocks at home. Whatever I still just use. That angle modified range. Because it’s pretty much close enough it’s. It does the job perfectly so that’s. One of the things that you’ll probably find when.

You take the plunge. You buy a rangefinder you’ll probably find. It a lot you would think for stuff. You wouldn’t even expect so yeah it’s great for measuring distances in. All forms not not just in a ballistic sense so let’s jump over. And have a look, and we’ll use my SuperDuper dodgy little scope cam setup. And hopefully that’ll give. Is a nice clear picture. And we’ll be able to arrange the wall at 1400 ish meters. And prove it can actually hit a reflective target. That far out because that’s quite a long way for a rangefinder in. This price bracket to actually be shooting and oftentimes like I’m a bit of an optics knob. Ilook at Sig what if what have. They did and like. Idon’t really they don’t set my heart on fire. Ilook at their other optics. And stuff not not to say. That there’s anything wrong with them. Because I’ve never actually used them but it’s not the sort of it’s not really a name. That comes too when. You think of high quality optics. If you’re an optic snob.

And you’re used to liking night force. And March that sort of stuff. You probably wouldn’t first thing. That sig could deliver your product. That you’d be happy with but. It represents say a really good high value option like it’s not a high-end rangefinder by. Any means but it will almost certainly get the job done. You need it to do so let’s have a look at the wall. How far away it is check. This out for a garbage home job piece of redneck engineering I didn’t. Even finish it properly but. It pretties many works so. You know it’s just an old phone case with. Some PVC on that I’ve rigged up so. It will hold the ocular lens of the rangefinder that’s looking pretty good so that’s.

What the reticle looks like it’s got as we’re on angle modified range mode at the moment. That does is correct for the angle. That the in klonoa detects within the rangefinder so. It gives you a ballistic ally correct range instead of the point A to point B range so as. You can see just then we’ll scope along there. One thousand one hundred. And sixty-eight point seven meters so that’s a fairly large reflective target. We scoot on over and catch. One of these boats out the back there 511 I’ll bet. You behind they’re a little bit too fiddly for. That my apologies for my shaky hands. All right there we go there’s a small child at 291 meters being towed in ASCII tube lovely day for us 481 meters away for. That boat on the other side of the dam so.

You can do a 1600-meter long reflective target range. That means a very large reflective target at 1600 meters. Because it’s a little bit wobbly as. You can see with these longer ranges with. If you’ve got shaky hands. Iwould think you would have to be a brain surgeon to get a small reflective target at 1600 meters so let’s try. And range the trees we’ll see. We get a nice close reading on. Some soft targets still too small still too far away. And there we go 536 meters to the trees on the other side 574 there 636 getting a little bit further. And looks like the boys in the boat over there. It was 759 meters so nearly 800 meters that’s pretty good for what I would think is a non-reflective target being. That’s the trees. All right that is a reflective target that’s the boat. Something shiny on the boat so we’ve got. Some fairly long ranges on soft targets up to about 600 meters there. We go 663 meters so that’s not bad at.

All not bad at one of the good things about. This rangefinder is. You can hold like click. And drag it will spit out of. All bunch of numbers at. And then leave the closest number. It gets so you can scan across. Something like this turn the rangefinder on just by clicking the arrange button. And then scan left to right until. It gives you a reading and then just let go. You see the reading and bam 1174. All righty then, so I think that’ll do. Us for our long-range reflective target test there so. That we’ve we’ve got over 1100 meters. Whatever it was out to the dam wall on a reflective target but to get. That far out you need a quite a large target. It obviously has to be reflective enough to bounce the beam. All the way back into the receiver so. It can tell how far away. It is so it does say. It will hit a reflective target at 1600 yards. It will do that but. It needs to be very reflective. And big enough for you to actually get.

That handshake you would have been able to see through my scope cam there so. One of the things that really does bug. Me about it is on the bottom. Ifeel like there should be a tripod mount. Isuppose you could probably try. It into a smartphone bracket. Something like and mount. It on your tripod but. It is quite wide it’s a lot well it’s a lot it’s not quite wide really but it’s its a lot wider. Than a smartphone is. These days so the general sort of size probably wouldn’t really work very well. Imay end up making something. That straps around the body of. And has the little pin in the bottom so. Ican hook it onto a tripod for longer ranges. If need be but that being said I’m probably never really going to be going out there. And shooting anything past a thousand yards anywhere other. Then the range for a target shooting so. Even then I still haven’t gotten around to doing.

Ican’t see that really being an issue for me at shorter ranges like below 500 meters its very quick. And very easy on any target so. Or not it’s reflective it’s still going to give. You a good reading they don’t really work very well in foggy times of day the fog seems to mess around with the beam. And prevent like a nice straight clean reflection coming back to. You but yeah as far as clear weather. Everything goes it’s a great option so — to cover the pros we’ve got a good price point it’s not it’s not cheaper nasty doesn’t feel cheap. And nasty at least it seems to give accurate ranges. Both long and short on hard. And soft targets and reflective targets at really long ranges but as far as cones go. Nothing on the bottom to hook. It up to a tripod so. You are shooting long distance targets it’s gonna be a little tricky. And also one other gripe is the reticle isn’t illuminated so it’s just it’s always black lucky saw in.

That little video there are the higher class models like the kilo 2200. And 2400 and so on. And so forth as you go up in the price brackets. They do have illuminated reticles but yeah unfortunately the kilo 1250. And the kilo 850 I believe which is the model below. They just they’re not illuminated so yeah. You want to play you gotta pay. All right so let’s let’s go fishing and then later on we’ll go back. And look at some competitive options so I’ll do’t catch. Any fish the other boys did but. We still add a cracker overtime. And that’s what really matters. Iguess plenty of beers plenty of good times. We didn’t get too sunburned so happy with. That up here on the screen let’s go into. Some competitive options for the Seas so first of. All on the left-hand side here we’ve got the Leopold rx 1600 I’ve used Leopold rx 800. Or an 850 I can’t quite remember which.

It was but I did like. It seemed like a good quality unit. And I’d be very surprised. If these any different as far as quality goes I’m very happy with. All of the Leopold stuff. That I’ve got in my gun safe so let’s have a look at the stats comes in a couple of different colors black blaze orange. And mossy oak that mossy oak one’s quite nice 1600 yard maximum range that’ll be for a reflective target same as the sig six times zoom. And a fairly nice wide field of view good stuff. You like loot pulp stuff. And you’re not a fan of sig for whatever reason. This would be a good option for you it’s very similar in pretty much every way.

Even including the price in Australia. You might end up paying a little bit. More for a Leopold but as. It stands at the moment that’s pretty similar to the SIG’s pricing ii competitive option is we’re going to run with a vortex Ranger. Ihaven’t used the vortex Rangers but. Ihave used a lot of other vortex gear. And I’m a big fan of vortex. They make for this whole sort of high-value target market. That we’re looking at where. You can afford some reasonably good stuff but. You don’t want to destroy your bank account for the next six months vortex is always a good option so a little bit. More poke than the sig. And the loophole goes. All the way out to 1800 yards same six times zoom. And same battery same. Everything but yeah. Iwould definitely look into. That would be a good option. You want to go with vortex third a relative newcomer to my little world. Ihaven’t really know about Athlon optics for a great deal of time but my old man’s got.

One of these little Athlon range finders. And it’s pretty good personally. Iprefer the CG over the Athlon but as. You look at the stats of the Athlon it’s 1200 yards not 1600 buts. Everything else is pretty similar so. You are looking for a slightly cheaper option. You don’t need to range a sixteen hundred yard reflective target. Ican’t really think of a reason why I. Even need sixteen hundred yards of range to be completely honest but yeah the Athlon. Ithink is also a good option. And having used. It feels like a good quality product just as well as the sig does let’s have a look at option number four. We finally have Bushnell. Ithink of Bushnell in the same vein. Ithink of Burris and indeed vortex as well. Ithink they’re all sort of like. All have obviously different levels of their products. They market to different demographics but.

When you’re talking about sort of reasonably priced high value type stuff. Ithink Bushnell’s always worth a look. They have a really good warranty just same as Leopold vortex. And Sig they’re all the lifetime warranty type things. It seems to be the standard for this type of product nowadays, but we’re going out to 1300 yards. And not quite as strong as the sig in the Leopold. And the vortex but still. Than enough to get you want to go different batteries taking a cr123 instead of a the other. One cr2 but still I would think. This would be a very good competitive option so look into. If you’re interested in keeping it bushy so sorry about the audio not really sure. What was going on there I’m testing some new mics.

And we’ve got a little bit of feedback over there but hopefully it’s usable. You guys enjoyed watching the video as much as. Ienjoyed making it. You did gently tickle. That like button and subscribe. You want to see and I’ll catch. You in the next one Cheers

We are at the glorious Lake Bar Umba. What a pristine glorious delightful autumn day it’s very hot but it’ll cool down soon enough we’ve come out here for two reasons number. One we’ll go and fish in. And number two we are going to go. Some rangefinder e goodness. One of the few places. Icould find that’s worth coming to. That actually has enough range to max out my little sig kilo 1250 rangefinders on a reflective target. That reflective target is the damn wall from about 1400 meters away it’s got a nice Bank picked out picked. It out on Google Maps so hopefully we’ll catch. Some fish, and we’ll get our video back your toys All righty so I just had the boys drop. Me off over here on the other side of the dam, so I’ve got a nice clear shot over to the dam wall so let’s unbox a little cig. What it’s got to offer so as. You can see this is the cig kilo 1250 it’s a six by twenty. Ididn’t pay for nineteen for it but that’s. What the sticker says but. Ithink 389 for it was on special at the time. And since then it has gone up just a little bit I’ve seen a. Few of them online at various shops for between five. And six hundred dollars sometimes. Even over six hundred dollars but at the time the price point represented a good sort of high value option.

It wasn’t the most expensive. It wasn’t the cheapest. It has quite a bit of good solid range on. It says it will do up to sixteen hundred yards reflective trees at 950. And a soft target like a deer at 750 yards so for those of. Everybody else in the rest of the world. That uses the metric system 1600 yards is about fourteen hundred. And fifty meters or there abouts. And that’s approximately. How far away from the dam wall. Now so hopefully that will work as a reflective target so. You open the box you get a nice little lanyard. You also get a cr2 battery. That comes with it but I’ve already put. This lovely little cig case.

It has a belt loop on the back it’s made from corduroy. Something like it feels like called Jura sig brand on the front. This lovely little pull tab instead of a press-stud. Or velcro so you can open. And close it nicely. And it’s quiet which is good. And that’s a good choice for a hunting optic so pulling it out. What it looks like we’ve got a mode button right here. We have the range button here. It is very simple to operate. You simply pick it up to your eye Lac so look through. And then put the reticle over. What you want and then click the range button. It will give you the range. That you’re looking for it has. One mode for the range. You click and hold the mode button. It will bring up your options list. And you’re able to set. It for direct range so from like from A to B in a straight line disregarding the angle of elevation.

You can go ahead and use the angle modified range mode which is ideal for ballistics. You are say you’re ranging the top of a mountain. Something like and you’re aiming up it’s going to give. You the exact relevant ballistic range not the point-to-point range so. It will modify its distance. It spits out for the angle. That will be affecting the round. That you’re going to shoot so. Ireally like I think that’s a great idea. And that’s that’s pretty much. Ialways leave I never really changed. It to point distance. Even when I’m using it for other stuff like measuring out paddocks at home. Whatever I still just use. That angle modified range. Because it’s pretty much close enough it’s. It does the job perfectly so that’s. One of the things that you’ll probably find when.

You take the plunge. You buy a rangefinder you’ll probably find. It a lot you would think for stuff. You wouldn’t even expect so yeah it’s great for measuring distances in. All forms not not just in a ballistic sense so let’s jump over. And have a look, and we’ll use my SuperDuper dodgy little scope cam setup. And hopefully that’ll give. Is a nice clear picture. And we’ll be able to arrange the wall at 1400 ish meters. And prove it can actually hit a reflective target. That far out because that’s quite a long way for a rangefinder in. This price bracket to actually be shooting and oftentimes like I’m a bit of an optics knob. Ilook at Sig what if what have. They did and like. Idon’t really they don’t set my heart on fire. Ilook at their other optics. And stuff not not to say. That there’s anything wrong with them. Because I’ve never actually used them but it’s not the sort of it’s not really a name. That comes too when. You think of high quality optics. If you’re an optic snob.

And you’re used to liking night force. And March that sort of stuff. You probably wouldn’t first thing. That sig could deliver your product. That you’d be happy with but. It represents say a really good high value option like it’s not a high-end rangefinder by. Any means but it will almost certainly get the job done. You need it to do so let’s have a look at the wall. How far away it is check. This out for a garbage home job piece of redneck engineering I didn’t. Even finish it properly but. It pretties many works so. You know it’s just an old phone case with. Some PVC on that I’ve rigged up so. It will hold the ocular lens of the rangefinder that’s looking pretty good so that’s.

What the reticle looks like it’s got as we’re on angle modified range mode at the moment. That does is correct for the angle. That the in klonoa detects within the rangefinder so. It gives you a ballistic ally correct range instead of the point A to point B range so as. You can see just then we’ll scope along there. One thousand one hundred. And sixty-eight point seven meters so that’s a fairly large reflective target. We scoot on over and catch. One of these boats out the back there 511 I’ll bet. You behind they’re a little bit too fiddly for. That my apologies for my shaky hands. All right there we go there’s a small child at 291 meters being towed in ASCII tube lovely day for us 481 meters away for. That boat on the other side of the dam so.

You can do a 1600-meter long reflective target range. That means a very large reflective target at 1600 meters. Because it’s a little bit wobbly as. You can see with these longer ranges with. If you’ve got shaky hands. Iwould think you would have to be a brain surgeon to get a small reflective target at 1600 meters so let’s try. And range the trees we’ll see. We get a nice close reading on. Some soft targets still too small still too far away. And there we go 536 meters to the trees on the other side 574 there 636 getting a little bit further. And looks like the boys in the boat over there. It was 759 meters so nearly 800 meters that’s pretty good for what I would think is a non-reflective target being. That’s the trees. All right that is a reflective target that’s the boat. Something shiny on the boat so we’ve got. Some fairly long ranges on soft targets up to about 600 meters there. We go 663 meters so that’s not bad at.

All not bad at one of the good things about. This rangefinder is. You can hold like click. And drag it will spit out of. All bunch of numbers at. And then leave the closest number. It gets so you can scan across. Something like this turn the rangefinder on just by clicking the arrange button. And then scan left to right until. It gives you a reading and then just let go. You see the reading and bam 1174. All righty then, so I think that’ll do. Us for our long-range reflective target test there so. That we’ve we’ve got over 1100 meters. Whatever it was out to the dam wall on a reflective target but to get. That far out you need a quite a large target. It obviously has to be reflective enough to bounce the beam. All the way back into the receiver so. It can tell how far away. It is so it does say. It will hit a reflective target at 1600 yards. It will do that but. It needs to be very reflective. And big enough for you to actually get.

That handshake you would have been able to see through my scope cam there so. One of the things that really does bug. Me about it is on the bottom. Ifeel like there should be a tripod mount. Isuppose you could probably try. It into a smartphone bracket. Something like and mount. It on your tripod but. It is quite wide it’s a lot well it’s a lot it’s not quite wide really but it’s its a lot wider. Than a smartphone is. These days so the general sort of size probably wouldn’t really work very well. Imay end up making something. That straps around the body of. And has the little pin in the bottom so. Ican hook it onto a tripod for longer ranges. If need be but that being said I’m probably never really going to be going out there. And shooting anything past a thousand yards anywhere other. Then the range for a target shooting so. Even then I still haven’t gotten around to doing.

Ican’t see that really being an issue for me at shorter ranges like below 500 meters its very quick. And very easy on any target so. Or not it’s reflective it’s still going to give. You a good reading they don’t really work very well in foggy times of day the fog seems to mess around with the beam. And prevent like a nice straight clean reflection coming back to. You but yeah as far as clear weather. Everything goes it’s a great option so — to cover the pros we’ve got a good price point it’s not it’s not cheaper nasty doesn’t feel cheap. And nasty at least it seems to give accurate ranges. Both long and short on hard. And soft targets and reflective targets at really long ranges but as far as cones go. Nothing on the bottom to hook. It up to a tripod so. You are shooting long distance targets it’s gonna be a little tricky. And also one other gripe is the reticle isn’t illuminated so it’s just it’s always black lucky saw in.

That little video there are the higher class models like the kilo 2200. And 2400 and so on. And so forth as you go up in the price brackets. They do have illuminated reticles but yeah unfortunately the kilo 1250. And the kilo 850 I believe which is the model below. They just they’re not illuminated so yeah. You want to play you gotta pay. All right so let’s let’s go fishing and then later on we’ll go back. And look at some competitive options so I’ll do’t catch. Any fish the other boys did but. We still add a cracker overtime. And that’s what really matters. Iguess plenty of beers plenty of good times. We didn’t get too sunburned so happy with. That up here on the screen let’s go into. Some competitive options for the Seas so first of. All on the left-hand side here we’ve got the Leopold rx 1600 I’ve used Leopold rx 800. Or an 850 I can’t quite remember which.

It was but I did like. It seemed like a good quality unit. And I’d be very surprised. If these any different as far as quality goes I’m very happy with. All of the Leopold stuff. That I’ve got in my gun safe so let’s have a look at the stats comes in a couple of different colors black blaze orange. And mossy oak that mossy oak one’s quite nice 1600 yard maximum range that’ll be for a reflective target same as the sig six times zoom. And a fairly nice wide field of view good stuff. You like loot pulp stuff. And you’re not a fan of sig for whatever reason. This would be a good option for you it’s very similar in pretty much every way.

Even including the price in Australia. You might end up paying a little bit. More for a Leopold but as. It stands at the moment that’s pretty similar to the SIG’s pricing ii competitive option is we’re going to run with a vortex Ranger. Ihaven’t used the vortex Rangers but. Ihave used a lot of other vortex gear. And I’m a big fan of vortex. They make for this whole sort of high-value target market. That we’re looking at where. You can afford some reasonably good stuff but. You don’t want to destroy your bank account for the next six months vortex is always a good option so a little bit. More poke than the sig. And the loophole goes. All the way out to 1800 yards same six times zoom. And same battery same. Everything but yeah. Iwould definitely look into. That would be a good option. You want to go with vortex third a relative newcomer to my little world. Ihaven’t really know about Athlon optics for a great deal of time but my old man’s got.

One of these little Athlon range finders. And it’s pretty good personally. Iprefer the CG over the Athlon but as. You look at the stats of the Athlon it’s 1200 yards not 1600 buts. Everything else is pretty similar so. You are looking for a slightly cheaper option. You don’t need to range a sixteen hundred yard reflective target. Ican’t really think of a reason why I. Even need sixteen hundred yards of range to be completely honest but yeah the Athlon. Ithink is also a good option. And having used. It feels like a good quality product just as well as the sig does let’s have a look at option number four. We finally have Bushnell. Ithink of Bushnell in the same vein. Ithink of Burris and indeed vortex as well. Ithink they’re all sort of like. All have obviously different levels of their products. They market to different demographics but.

When you’re talking about sort of reasonably priced high value type stuff. Ithink Bushnell’s always worth a look. They have a really good warranty just same as Leopold vortex. And Sig they’re all the lifetime warranty type things. It seems to be the standard for this type of product nowadays, but we’re going out to 1300 yards. And not quite as strong as the sig in the Leopold. And the vortex but still. Than enough to get you want to go different batteries taking a cr123 instead of a the other. One cr2 but still I would think. This would be a very good competitive option so look into. If you’re interested in keeping it bushy so sorry about the audio not really sure. What was going on there I’m testing some new mics.

And we’ve got a little bit of feedback over there but hopefully it’s usable. You guys enjoyed watching the video as much as. Ienjoyed making it. You did gently tickle. That like button and subscribe. You want to see and I’ll catch. You in the next one Cheers

You know your range to the target is only half the battle until recently your typical range finder under $1000 was pretty accurate out to about 600 yards Bushnell has blown. That distance out of the water with the elite contacts one-mile range finder boasting distances of up to 17 hundred. And 60 yards one mile with accuracy of plus. Or minus 1/2 a yard not only does the elite contacts. One mile provides you proper distance but with the addition of Bushnell’s AARC technology. It will compute and compensate for angle. It will compute holdover for three ballistic curves. And MOA inches or mil dot with seven times magnification. It will also help what you are ranging at those distances its vivid display technology gives. You crystal clear viewing weather far away. Or close-up multi-coated lenses resist dust. And moisture and provide exceptional clarity. And contrast and the lenses are also coated in Bushnell’s rain guard HD to cause water beating for better visibility in wet weather the entire unit is also armored in tough abrasion resistant rubberized skin for a positive grip.

And damp conditions variable side n lets. You 0 at 100 150 200. Or 300 yards 3 ranging modes lets. You range to a specific target scan across the landscape constantly reading range. Or pick out the range to. Something obscured by brush with bullseye scan. And brush modes the second generation ESP processor rapidly computes distance. And range computation for rapid target ranging the elite contacts. One mile is than just a rangefinder with the ability to connect your smartphone. And the Bushnell contacts app. This will input the range. And angle data from your elite contacts. One mile and feed it into the Bushnell ballistic calculator for even greater accuracy paired with the Kestrel sportsman weather station in applied ballistics engine the elite contacts.

One mile will wirelessly feed data to the Kestrel which is also collecting data from the atmosphere to provide. You an exact shooting solution for your environmental conditions range. And nation about the only thing this combo won’t do for you is pull the trigger but. It will give all the information. You need to dope your scope so. You miss you only have yourself to blame check out the Bushnell elite connects one-mile combo at your local Sportsman’s Warehouse optics counter.

Shooting at targets. Or animals at long-range takes lots of practice. One of the most important factors. When taking these shots is knowing the exact distance to your target the new Bushnell elite one-mile rangefinder with angle range compensation takes care of. That problem for you the advanced digital microprocessor with application specific integrated circle will allow. You to know the exact distance to your target from five to seven hundred. And sixty yards this is done by measuring the time. It takes to infrared energy pulses to hit the target. And come back to the rangefinder. These pulses are invisible perfectly safe for your eyes. And extremely accurate the new vivid display technology makes for rich contrast. And stunning clarity no matter. What the lighting conditions. When you’re shooting at the range your terrain you’re shooting will usually be leveled so your standard ballistic data will work just fine but. Most hunting and shooting scenarios have. More of an uphill or downhill aspect to them with the arc. Or angle range compensation which is integrated into the elite one-mile rangefinder you’ll have the benefit of knowing true horizontal distance which is ideal for those of.

That shoot either a turret type scope. Or an edged reticle for those of. You shoot a traditional crosshair. You have the ability to display correct bullet holes over there are three different modes for ranging first is the rifle HD mode which is. What most serious long-range shooters are going to use. This ideal for the guy who has done his range time. And has a custom turret. Or etch reticle on a setup. This mode will provide line-of-sight yardage degree of elevation. And true horizontal distance the mathematical algorithm for distance. And angle has been done internally. And gives you yardage to shoot for otherwise known as the true horizontal distance.

This angle range compensation works from ten to a thousand yards range. It set your turret and send. It’s true be that easy the rifle mode is. More designed for those of. You with a basic rifle scope with just standard crosshairs like. It allows you to have a ballistic calculator with. You within your rangefinder based on data. You put in regards your ballistic information your load. And sight in distance the rifle mode is based on eight different ballistic groups covering all different load combinations with over 2000 caliber. And load combinations on the Bushnell website. One of them is sure to be acted for your setup there are two different ballistic groups for most loaded as well. Once you’ve picked your appropriate caliber. And load that under. This mode you can input your sighting distance of 100 150 200. Or 300 yards shooting yardage with angle range compensation will.

Now give you the appropriate bullet drop compensation for your setup. While calculating the angle. And adjusting for the uphill. And downhill shot in. This mode you’ll be able to see angle range compensation from 100 to 800 yards. Although this unit will give. You the correct bullet drop. Or out to 800 yards. Idon’t recommend taking this shot out past 400 yards. Because determining 70 inches out at 600 yards makes for some very big estimation on the hunters park. If long distance is. What you’re really looking to do get yourself a turret. Or an X reticle it shoots. It in HD mode these trophies definitely deserve the best. We can offer standard mode will give. You direct line-of-sight yardage out to 1760 yards but won’t calculate for angle.

This yardage will be determined by the reflectiveness of your target white. And bright eyes will provide measurements. And longer distances. Than darker items during our testing we’re able to see great results on deer size game. And we’re able to get yardage as well past the publish distances. One of the better things. We were able to get good yardage. Even in a light rain which is a common problem with. Most range finders to other modes which deserve mention are the bullseye mode. And the brush mode these can be used in conjunction with. Any other rifle setup modes the bullseye mode allows for easy acquisition of small targets. And game without inadvertently getting distance to background targets. That have stronger signal strength. One object has been acquired distance of the closer object will be displayed brush mode allows objects such as brush. And trees to be ignored. And the distance only the background object can be displayed.

One object has been acquired distance to the further object will be displayed. This unit is the perfect size for those of. You look to get ranges its super long distance it’s got a seven power zoom on. It but best of all it’s built for two hands so. You pick and your range holding your elbows in tight you’re able to gain those ranges it’s super long yardage just the other thing it’s drilled. And tapped for a tripod mount in case. You need a little bit extra stability the unit weighs in at 10 ounces operates on 1 cr123 battery the linzer’s are fully multi-coated which made for good color clarity the outer surface of the objective lens. And eyepiece are coated with brain guard HD which is Bushnell’s patented water repellent. This prevents fog and caused by condensation. You need a sealed and waterproof as well so an accidental dunk in the lake won’t render.

It useless it is covered by Bushnell’s one-year limited warranty which protects for defects. And material and workmanship the Bushnell elite one-mile rangefinder performed extremely well during all of our testing and it’s a great asset to those of. That want extend your ranges. And since it’ll do angle range compensation down to 10 yards it’s also good for those of. That hunt with a bow. All in a price that won’t break the bank stop by your local sports. And warehouse and check. One out for yourself. One up online at Sportsman’s Warehouse calm.

Everybody mark here from John 1911. And just an update on. Something we had seen for sale on the internet. And wanted to you know maybe answer. Some questions on it so Bushnell. Iguess last week this past two weeks was blowing out our Brown ells was blowing out products. Iguess to compute Amazon. One of the one of the products. They decided to sell. It at a steep discount is a Bushnell elite one-mile conics laser rangefinder. You know I think the MSRP like 700 bucks. And I’m not you know. Idon’t want a seller of extra rangefinder but. We do need a longer range. You know zapper, so we can do a thousand yards so. It was $299 I’m like well hell. We can do $299 even realized. Iordered that apparently. This thing’s got like bluetooth. And it’ll talk to the Bluetooth kestrels it’s got an app. You can download on your smartphone then maybe coordinate. Some of your ballistics data. Ihaven’t done that least not. Yet I’m too busy I’m actually already at. This video I’m not even going to be in the country, so I’ll deal with.

Iget back so it’s a one-mile rangefinder. They actually say it’s rated for 1760 yards. It is a seven it’s um. You know monocular it’s a seven power by 26 millimeter objective with a whistle is pretty nice an eyepiece. That comes out for your. You know for you know the for your. You know to rest it up against your eye. You know get your eye placement has a focus ring and. It actually functions is up as a decent as a. You know a decent you know field optic. Imean east of the Mississippi for basic hunting I mean it’s a seven power it’s not. Now 10 power 20 power. Or 50 milli rejected but. You know for basic hunting it would be. You find it’s about the size of like a 10 by 42 10 by 42 pair of binoculars but. Ithink it’s well-made. It does angular like. If you’re zapping the target. And it’s 3 5 15 20 30 degrees above. Or below it will show. You the angle which could come in handy for extreme angular shooting for those of. More on the you know west of the Mississippi Organa.

You know Appalachian Mountains. Icould be an issue to comes with. Icover a quick detach lanyard. We have successfully tested. This at 12 o’clock bright Sun. Iwas easily hitting tree lines the leaves of the 800 yards. Iwas able to just I was out. Icouldn’t I couldn’t get. Any farther I was able to confirm. This thing was able to shoot green leaves at the top of a tree twelve hundred yards away at 12 o’clock noon Sun. You know 87 degree weather. Ithought that was pretty fantastic so. Idon’t know about all the fancy blue through stuff but. You were on the fence about maybe picking up. One of these Bushnell laser rangefinders. You run across one say for $299. Ithink it’s a buy I’m very happy with. It we’re going to be using it quite a bit with the new range project we’ve got going on for the regulars. And we’re talking about so as for the rest. You know we’ll let you know as. It so anyway thank you for your time.

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Alright guys welcome back to two for three outdoors my name is Josh tonight we’re gonna take a look at the Sig Kahlo 1200 rangefinders. Ipicked this week from not just shooters supply. They had this on sale for $169. And got free shipping on. And so far it seems to be a pretty nice rangefinder its advertised. It ranges deer up to 600 yards trees to 700. And reflective targets to 16 out of the arms runs on a cr2 battery it’s supposed to have really long battery life. It the actual size is very small. And compact it comes a little nice carrying case the box is very nice. It came in and an instruction manual there’s two buttons on. One is the mode one is the range button battery goes here. It has an adjustable eyepiece. This darkens and lightens the LCD in there. Ifound the darkest setting is probably. You want it there’re two modes of operation. This a line of sight. And an angled modified range line of sight is like. Whatever you see the distance is. This place the angle modified range is. When you’re looking at a decline. Or an incline it just is adjusted for what the distance would be for a like. Isay a rifle if your line of sight was 500 yards looking down. That angle 30 degrees the holdover would have to be about for 433 yards that’s the factory configuration.

It comes in we’re gonna leave. It we’re on flat ground here so. It doesn’t really matter it’s also factory set to yards but. You can’t change the meters tonight it’s gonna be not really a. How to use it we’re just gonna kind of show. Ihave a little camera here. It just right I can show. What I see, and we’ll go out in the truck drive around. And range some things. Ihave ranged a very large building at 1400. Ibelieve 62 yards I’ve ranged combines grain cards at twelve thirteen hundred yards fence rows no problem at a thousand yards so. This seems to be pretty good it’s really about. All there is to tell. You about and let’s go out. And play with this a little bit. All right, so we’re gonna range around here in the yard just a little bit. And across the road. And give you an idea. What this thing will do so. We have a sign there. That comes up 91 yards there’s a dumpster that’s approximately a hundred its range.

That tree 35 we can also go to. These houses that are pretty far out there 359 yards get. This hey Belle 96 the corner of. That building is about 150 yards we’ll go up. This was about 215 without building a big trees about 77 see I’m holding it. And we’re standing no burning pile back there. And burn barrel is about 85 yards so let’s go out in the truck. And take a look around we’ll range. This a little farm there 669 to. That grain band 732 to. That shed 662 to that other shed eleven hundred. And thirty yards to. That fence row so it’ll think. These fence rows up pretty good about 450 to. That fence row be nice. We can find more deer but. They was kind of in. Some tall weeds we can’t find any deer will rain. Some cows the Sun starting to set so it’s hard to get a little dark shit here’s cow pasture those cows 123 yards there’s. One up on the hill there.

You had about 320 yards away so. It would definitely pick up a deer. That far we’ll drive around. This a little bit more simply see. Anything else probably be a booger to edit. That Ike I guess really so there’s. Some houses and sheds out there pretty good range 1246 yards 1197 to. That other on the woods out there 600 at the ten yards so like. This thing will reach out pretty good. He was setting up a range. You could probably park your truck at your shooting spa. And then you know set a target up out. You know a thousand twelve hundred yards. And range back off it here that’s right they’re about four hundred fifty-five yards away got a.

More cows here get pretty dark here 135 yards. That one’s about 80 88 got. That at about 140 and about 114 so like. You can see it’s a pretty good rangefinder. It actually exceeds my expectation. Iwasn’t expecting it to be. That good it picks up Finch rose. And stuff like that very well so it’s getting pretty much dark. Now so we’re gonna in. This video I don’t know. How long the sale goes on for but for a hundred. And sixty-nine dollars. It seems like a pretty solid deal so thanks for watching, and we’ll catch. You later

You spend a lot of time on the range as. Whether it’s a site in a new rifle. You just want to spend the afternoon shooting at. Some targets or you’re a hunter. You spend a lot of time out in the field pursuing game. One important accessory. You should always have with. You is a good quality rangefinder hey guys its Jerry. Once again here at hilltop firearms training center in Dover Tennessee. And today we’re going to be looking at the loopholed rx 650 the Arctic 615 really easy to use. One button power is an omen. And allows you to change between modes so. If you’re accustomed to ranging targets. And meters you prefer yards. You can change it out really easy fully multi-coated optic with a six time magnification so. You bring it up range your target that’s gonna bring. That image in six times closer. It makes a little bit easier to range the actual object.

That you’re trying to get the distance on let’s take a closer look at. Some other features we’ll do a little table-top. And I’ll just kind of explain. It works with living so let’s talk about reflective targets as. You can see we have plywood backers way out there. We go out there we staple our targets up. That would be known as a reflective target. It is a clean smooth unobstructed surface. Now the laser rangefinder is going to see. That object say a little bit different. Then an inanimate object such as a tree you’re gonna get your signal you’re going to get your range but. It will look at it slightly different.

It is a difference in its texture a. Few other things that can actually affect. It would be a shiny surface is highly reflective. And easier to range. Than say a dull surface think of a black roof. You have a black roof a lot of the laser as. That roof is going to be absorbed into. Whereas such as a surface such as. This it’s actually going to reflect back off of. It quicker now think of. It as in perspective with game. If you’re in the woods. You see a deer the deer has a hide. That their game coat is like a light color like tan is going to be much. More reflective than say a dark colored animal such as a bear. Because a lot of the surface. That the light of the laser is actually reflecting off of is going to be absorbed in. Some fur so it’s really interesting how. That works lighting conditions haze rain fog other things going on in the environment can affect the lasers accuracy but.

That is with any piece of equipment such as a laser rangefinder okay guys so quickly. More time and explain. How to change between yard. Or meter mode simply with the unit in the powered off position simply depress the button here on the top for approximately 10 seconds after which. You will be able to toggle from yards to meters. Or vice versa you figure out which. You want or the power button so pretty quick. Ihave mine set for yardage but. Iknow a lot of shooters. That come up here do prefer the meters so. You have a choice once again. You do have the ocular adjustment for the clarity depending on your vision really well-made. Ijust like the simplicity of. If you’re out there hunting the last thing you need is. Some other piece of complicated gear simply bring the thing up their range. It releases the button there. You got your yards now here’s.

Something that’s really cool about. This the design of this oh wow say. You have let’s say you’re out hunting you spotted tears across a field. And the deer is moving hold the power button down on the object. And move along with. It will continue to range as the range changes. That feature so you can range a moving object with. This not a lot of range finders have. That feature I also like the construction of the rangefinder itself it’s got. This nice little rubber piece over the top gives. You a good positive grip. If it’s a it’s raining or your hands are quite slippery total vocal adjustment here four different eyes of course. You know depending on your vision. It is powered by one single battery.

It comes out quite easy but you’ve got. This little flip up cap the last. Iwas using was quite difficult it’s powered by. One of the CR two batteries very commonly used in a lot of cameras really nicely designed. Iknow it’s the little details. That sometimes it kind of gets to. This is cool because after. You snug it down then just flip. And you’re good to go that’s actually kind of cool you’ll also notice a little area here. You can attach a lanyard to which. Iwould prefer to have a lanyard on. It in case I was to drop. You could hang it around your neck. And just simply use. It as them you know the monocular. It is in fact alright guys as well. You get a really cool little carry case with the loop Holden’s rx 650 well-made little design. It also allows you to attach. It to your range bag. If you’re out in the field. You can attach some gear well design little carry case to keep the thing protected. What I really thought was just funny. And kind of neat and ingenious actually was.

This a simple little onboard way of carrying a spare battery. Ijust that’s one of the little details that’s kind of stood out to. You least expect and the battery is dead. You can always keep a spare. One onboard according to the owner’s manual the battery life is like 5000 actuations so. Each time you know. This thing approximately you’re gonna get about 5000 times. You can use and range. Something which is pretty impressive I’ve had. Some other range finders in the past. It seemed like they really use the battery life quick. Ihave not had time to test. That but I do like. That feature alright guys. That wraps up our review of the loopholed rx 650 laser rangefinders. You are in the market for a high quality. Yet affordable laser rangefinder.

That is full of features check out the link below it’ll take. You to optics Planets website there is also a special coupon. You can put in to save. More money on an already great price guys. You for watching as always. We will see you soon on the range.

Okay so today went down to sportsmen of our house. Ihad to pick up a few supplies for archery pick up. Some arrows some arrowheads. And throw it along a nice little gadget here the Leopold rx 650 let’s go ahead. And break into what all. This is a total unboxing so okay inside. We have the carry case. And the range finder spare battery. And the instruction booklet let’s go ahead. Everything out see what all. We have here just like a little kid in the candy store. Now originally I was going to go for the five fifty looked online. Iforgot between online. And the store sales so. Ifigured they had. It in the store they didn’t but. They did have the 650 which is about $50. A more little bit better as far as range wise but then. That is pretty much the same. Ireally like the can the casing for it case has got a little clip here instead of velcro which is really nice it’s done by a little string cord. It just pops right in their latch is just fine the case has a little compartment for the battery here. Ididn’t pick up a spare battery but. It did come with a battery, so we’re going to go ahead. And take a look at it has a battery in. It which it will otherwise battery would be dead. Now by itself it’s got a nice little optical zoom so. It kind of works as a monocular. Another good feature. Ilike is the battery case. Or the battery compartment itself. You just flip up the little tab. And twist and there’s the battery compartment let’s go ahead. And open up the battery here take the foil off of.

Now the battery life of. This is 5000 actuations it’s a 3-volt lithium cr2 battery on a power off after five seconds laser radiation measurement up to five rides to 650 yards measure time less. Then a second sounds pretty good looks so let’s put the battery in. What she does looking inside here. It gives you a little diagram of how to put the battery in so. You can’t can’t put. It in the wrong way then. You get the battery in just keep on turning the lid clockwise. When it’s tight put the handle down. And you’re ready to go. Now I’m sitting in the side of the yard here. Igot a complete line to the mailboxes, so we’re going to take a look at. It 28 yards right off the bat works perfect right out of box. Now there’s a satellite dish across the way at 55 yards 54. Now the rangefinders set up like. Isay right out of the box. Ireally like you push down on the button. You want the yardage push. It down again it gives.

You the yardage it’s got a real nice of a design ergonomically correct it’s getting this little rubberized handle here so. That won’t slip or muddy. Or what-have-you when you’re out in the field has an adjustable lens here so. You can slide in on your target make sure. You get a clear shot I’m liking it looks great we’ll have to do. Some further testing and see. It works out in the field until. That time I’m going to go ahead. And just practice with. It a little bit decided to get. Because hunting seasons coming up here pretty soon get about three months to go. And really looking forward to. It also the Decatur case. You’re strapped to your bill. You can hook it on to hook. It on to your gear run.

That was so that’s hanging its hanging right next to. You can have it right next to your binoculars. You want wherever did. Some research on the loop hold 650. And found out they were really good right on the mark read the reviews on. And so far I’m tickled with. What I got so until next time hope. You get hope what you’re hunting for until then I’ll say see. You later and shoot straight you.

Hey guys right now we’re gonna check out a loo-loo pulled rangefinder. This is the rx 650 I just got. This for Christmas so far it’s been good it’s been accurate. And let’s just get to testing it I’m behind the camera right. Now so you’re not gonna see. Me but we’re gonna arrange. This is I’m gonna see. Ican get you guys to look through the rangefinder hey guys. Ijust flipped you guys around on. It ranges it looks to be about 170. Some yards is what I would guess but let. What it ranges out using the loophole rx 650. It is ranging out at about 195. Or 200 yards so my guess was pretty good but. If you’re shooting a deer. You dial your scope. And wrong you could miss at. That distance so I think that’s. All we’re gonna go testing it. Idid a short clip of. Me following some deer with. It earlier you got to be able to look through.

How close I could get to. These deer so um little fog rx 650 650 bucks turner bucks depending on where. You go good deal that’s a gunshot its muzzle a seasoned piece you.

Everyone welcomed into loopholed live thanks for joining us by name is Nick. And we’ve been away for a couple weeks, so we’re gonna come back strong here we’re gonna talk about a really cool topic we’re gonna talk about range finders. Ihave the esteemed Eric Overstrict with. Is so Eric explain a little bit about. What you do here what your role in the range finders is. Iam the technology product line manager so. Imanage all the products. That have batteries in them. And a big piece of that is range finders. Some thermal products. Some other products. That we’ve previously done right so. Ilove talking about range finders. II can geek out about. Iwill tell you guys. You went to central casting and pick the guy. You wanted to create range finders for you. That would be Eric he geeks out on. All the little technical data the long-range ballistic stuff I’m not I’m not making funny. Ithink it’s awesome. And that’s its exactly the kind of passion. And drive you want behind coming up with. These products it really shows too in. What we’re doing so. Ilove talking about hunting and. Ilove talking about Leopold rangefinders right exactly yeah so Eric. How long you’ve been here actually just a little background about yourself. And like you came here. Ihave been here for almost 11 years yeah. And it’s really hard to believe time goes by fast right things.

You love yeah this August I’m 12 years. Istill feel like well there’s a lot of people here. Then 20 30 years right so. It still feels like I’m a bit of a newbie right but. It goes by super fast. And you’ve been running the rangefinder line for most. That time right I have I’ve been the PLM for the rangefinders for those 11 years yeah before coming to loopholed. Iworked for Tektronix okay it’s a local test. And measurement company yeah. Where essentially we developed test equipment. That helps the high-tech manufacturers develop their products so. What would help Intel develop their new chips school help the cell phone companies develop their new insects okay so. That played right into.

This role then it your passion for hunting and shooting I take. It it was a good man sometimes. You got a pincher so. You like is this work actually. Iin my last roll there. Iwas managing spectrum analyzers. And Eric’s gonna say stuff. And I’m gonna go woods. That’s because I don’t know half the stuff Eric says so it’s equipment that’s used in developing handset mobiles. Or radar okay and in my. And those are perfect fits for what we do with range finders essentially radar is using a different type of technology. And doing the exact same thing okay yes. Something out pinging receiving it back yeah okay. And with cell phone development it’s. All about signal-to-noise ratio. And that’s we get our signal out of awesome the noise okay cool.

Ijust want to mention to. You for everyone who is hating on. Us on the other ones we’re going vertical. This time on Instagram so. You can stop typing comments so that’s a big momentous occasion for us. That we’re very cool. Ijust thought that’s funny so let’s talk a little bit about the range finder history so. When did we start doing range finders. What was a 2006 he said 2007 so okay that’s in seven yeah, so we’ve been doing range finders for quite a bit. And they’ve kind of evolved a lot over. That time right technology has moved fast since. That time yeah for sure just to reminder to. Everyone you know type in comments. We actually got a lot of good comments.

Or excuse me questions. We got a lot of good questions from the insta story. We posted yesterday but type questions in we’ll try to get to. All of them we had like 30. Something from yesterday so. Idon’t know if we’ll be able to get to. All of them but we’ll have time for. That’s because I think that’s important a lot of people have a lot of questions about range finders. You know that so tell about range finders. What is actually happening when. You range something let’s kind of break down what’s happening in the rangefinder it’s not magic voodoo too somehow. You know get in that range so the scientific side of. It there could be voodoo yeah there’s there’s a lot of going on essentially the best way to think about a rangefinder is a tool.

That measures the speed of light so. What we do is we have a. We omit 905 nanometer light okay. And that’s a class of laser right kind of it’s its on the spectrum it’s on the spectrum right yeah for reference visible light is in the 300 to. Or 400 to 700 okay nanometers so. We are on the IR side of. That at 9:05 gotcha. Because it’s not visible to the naked eye. When you’re reading. That laser out okay cool so. We omit a rangefinder yeah. We omit the light yeah. It bounces off the target. It comes back we measure the time. It took to do that mm-hmm the speed of light is a constant yeah, so we’re able to take. That time divide it in half yeah. And then know something away is because of. That interesting okay so you’re just sending out a beam it’s hitting something and it’s receiving it back into the rangefinder is doing its scientific mathematical calculation for how long. And then it’s going to give. That range correct cool that’s actually pretty easy to understand.

You break it down in. That simple form there hey maybe. Iover simplified it he’s like no it’s not. That yeah well I think like. What is the most complicated part of. It receive that back. What yeah as range finders evolve. Ithink right now the kind of the benchmark. That everybody’s shooting for is distance right so. Ithink having received channel. That doesn’t introduce a lot of noise into the system. And is able to identify the signal returned from. All the noise that exists in the natural environment from sun from light right. Because yeah I think we’ve talked before environmental factors do play a role into. Each factor you can range right. Idon’t think people realize. That as much right so.

If like rain right can play a role yeah is. That’s because it scatters the light that’s going out is. What happens it scatters. That the nine of the. What we’re omitting the laser. That we’re mitting is bouncing off the rain itself oh okay it’s actually seeing targets at a number of distances out there gotcha so. You might get some wonky readings. Something like that depending on where. Where it’s hitting and coming back to. You okay that is a bigger issue for golf range finders oh yeah so. You know and hunting we’re looking for larger targets yeah. And golf we’re looking for a pin so finding a small pin in a forest of trees. Or building behind it is a challenge actually. When you’ve got fog. Or rain that’s introducing a lot of small targets in front of. It gosh yeah well and — I’ve noticed going to.

Some PRS matches and stuff. They like to hide stuff in trees very small stuff so it’s kind of the same element there you’re having to range really small stuff at extreme distances no. You know more extreme. Then golf but still yeah small stuff so that’s difficult so. Iwant to talk about — a little bit. What makes Leopold rangefinders different from other range finders on the market right there’s a lot of range finders out there. You guys have a lot of choices. We do a couple things. That kind of set us apart I’ll let. You take that so okay yes. That is accurate there were. Some there weren’t a lot of manufacturers. Ishould say marketers of range finders until the last couple years but there were. Some patents that expired in the industry okay. When those expired it was the easy way of doing range finders okay so.

Now we’ve seen a proliferation of small manufacturers. That are just buying chunks from the technologies already there. You just go to a manufacturing go hey. Iwant a rangefinder maybe. You make an industrial design change to the outside of exactly the way. You go right super easy yeah but you’re not innovating right you’re actually designing anything it. One of the things that sets. Us apart is the team. We have here yeah our engineers so. We have on staff double es that’s electrical engineers by the way electrical engineers. They came from Tektronix as well so. These are the guys that have been designing radar. And designing cell phone yes equipment. These are the guys that are experts in being able to perfect getting. That signal out of all the environmental noise. You know what we do is.

We develop something new. We go out together in the parking lot. We start ranging targets. We literally you walk up. And there’s a group of guys with. This cart these range finders set up. That are like they don’t look like. This right it’s just like guts. And wires hanging out. And they’re arranging stuff. And testing it I always thought. That was funny but yeah but yeah. You guys are designing like. Everything from the ground up here right. We do yeah all of our electronics. It allows us to overcome simple things yeah the first time. That really hit home having you know the engineers be here is. We resolve the white/black target issues expand on. That a little bit so what’s the we’re talking about contrast right so. We are yeah so and it’s important for archers okay. Anybody that’s taken a broad head target. And a field target out okay set them up side-by-side. And ranged between them has noticed. It okays you’re going to get a difference of variants.

And readings depending on what if you’re hitting white. Or black correct okay cool. And the reason for when the signal comes back yeah think of your car the parking lot. You have a light color car okay a lot of light reflects off of. It runs your car stays cooler right. You have a dark car right. It absorbs a lot of. That light so the car heats up. And there’s not as much emanating from the car okay same things happens on the targets okay so with the light target. You get a real big power spike coming back okay the return on the laser super strong. Because it’s reflecting. That flecks really well okay. And then with a dark color car. Or dark target yeah it’s very low return so. You can absorb that light. You know unless your engineers are really good. You know they’re looking at the rising edge of. That pulse that’s coming back. And the rising edge is different between a little target in a big target okay wow that’s.

Something I totally never. Even thought of right that’s but. That speaks to the level of detail. You guys go into when you’re designing all. These right and you’re thinking about. All those situations. You might face in the field on the range. Wherever you guys are using range finders right yeah. One other thing I think. That really sets us apart is the optics of the range finders actually I’ve noticed. That a lot of our range finders seem clear. Or brighter than other. Igo out you know I go out. And shoot someone else has. Another rangefinder. Ialways like looking through competitors products wrecks is always interesting to see. If they’re new and I’ve always noticed. That our seem brighter for some reason yeah there’s been a lot of evolution in the displays inside a range finders okay is.

One of the limiting factors to the bike. How much light actually is getting to your eye okay a little bit of background. When range finders first started selling commercially commercial orion fenders became popular there were. They were LCD based okay. And an LCD lets in generally around 18 to 25 percent light okay that’s a limitation of the technology yes not. Somebody can out advance. Somebody else yeah it’s very similar to a digital watch okay. When you’re looking through. That film it’s taking out. That light okay LCDs have evolved. You have high light transmission LCDs which is. What we put in our mid-range products. That got our light transmission up to around 60 65 percent oh wow so for people. That are you know hunting in the early morning or late in the evening it’s a big improvement. Because they’re able to see the animals. Iknow in those witching minutes. And that’s one starts moving around that’s. You know critical shots are taking you really need. That range right yeah so yeah.

And then we evolved from LCDs into loads okay. What stands for organic light-emitting diode okay. And that’s in our higher end ones here the 1600. And the 2800 correct okay cool. And that’s we started putting red. And people call it red displays. Or black displays yeah. What we do there is we’re actually injecting light into the optical path okay so. Than looking through film you’re just looking through optics. Now okay so you end up with roughly 85% light transmission okay but you’re injecting light into. Than injecting yeah an LED yeah. Ithink that’s easy. And that’s super important to. We talk about these longer range finders right 1600 yards 2800 yards at those distances. It gets harder and harder to see so you’re gonna need. That bright image right to make the. You know see the difference between.

You know a branch you know an antler Rock. And a target whatever. You may be shooting at right so supercritical yeah people think. That III wanted to put. That out there it seems like it’s a it’s a race just for the maximum distance but there’s a lot of other factors. That play into I think the brightness of the image is actually. One of them it’s supercritical. How easy it is to read the display like. You were saying like. That the red high contrast display in their yeah is nice easily readable. It’s definitely a consumer preference yeah part of its budget. And part of its consumer preference absolutely yeah. And obviously more expensive to manufacture. And make those enhance the higher-end so yep cool let’s let’s take. Some questions we want to start rolling through. Because man there’s a lot of them. Iguess it’s kind of kin to. What we were talking about here but James wall I’m gonna tell her name wrong James wall Xander are.

All rangefinders created equal. They just as complex is just as complex as finding the right scope. All range finders are not created equal yeah there’s different engine technologies into. You know for example. We first entered the range finder market no7. We were buying an off-the-shelf unit. Somebody else’s technology. We were putting our software. And our TBR ballistic software into. It is our differentiator right but. You know we quickly. We learned we weren’t going to be able to get the improvements out of. We were gonna want right. And the performance improvement so. We started developing our own engine yeah. And that’s we have learned the difference between. You know an MCU based engine. And FPGA based engines performance standards. That come from those super-smart.

And then the signal processing. That comes from that in terms of being able to resolve white. And dark targets and then. You reach the next benchmark for distance yes so that’s that’s cool. Ithink that’s important. It ties into just kind of like the core culture here at loophole is. We are constantly innovating right. We may not always be there’s my little public services announcement right we’re not always the first to market with. Something right there were range finders out there first. That ranged that distance. That range that distance but. We come our there into the market with the product we’ve thoroughly designed. It tested that it’s going to be the best product in.

That segment right when it’s out there. We take our time we just don’t throw. Something out there just to throw. It out there I know I’ve said. That before I just like harping on. That so yeah BJ on Instagram there why aren’t range finding binoculars. More popular good question great question yeah there’s going to be an interesting transformation in the next couple years in terms of electronics. And hardware we’re starting to see electronics proliferate into a lot. More hardware devices but at. Some point the consumer is going to have to decide. Ispend $3000 on a pair of binos. And a year later it doesn’t have the features in. Iwant yeah I want to spend $3000 on a new pair of binos that’s a big investment in the. You know range running by knows themselves. You can’t you know the idea is. You stick two things together. And there should be a significant cost savings right with ranked running by nose. It actually goes the opposite direction right. You take $1000 by know.

You take a $500 range finder. You don’t end up with a $1300 product. You end up with a $3000 right yeah just. They always thought. It was the complexity of. And correct if I’m wrong but in a BIOS. You expect a certain level of optical quality right yeah. You induce or introduced a rangefinder into. That equation now I’m having to send signals out. And receive them back in. And those that that lens system may not work with sending out those signals right so it’s like finding. That balance between. You know premium optical quality. And being able to range accurately right. And again we didn’t want make. Any compromises on that right. And you’ll see that so the answer is yes yeah the glass. It takes to still have a good range find or a good buy no. And a useful range finder is very complicated it’s its fragile.

What you’ll see in a lot of the lower-priced range-finding by notes. That are on the market. These days is they’ve actually got a filter over the display channel so. If the displays in the right channel. And you’re looking through. You close your eyes. And look back and forth you’ll see. That one’s a lot darker. Than the other Oh interesting so there’s a lot of compromise in there on AB. Iknow right you know in. That early morning late in the evening when you’re looking through. It yeah it’s not an optical blindness it’s not an optimal yeah hard to say yeah. Ithink that’s important. That it’s we just don’t want to make compromises. We don’t want to leave. You high when you’re in the field right so not to say we’re not working on.

Anything we’re always working on stuff so stay tuned. You know so let’s see McNeill. Most stellar 26 on Instagram. What is the battery life like great question battery life depends on a number of factors depends on what style display. You have the OLED uses a lot. More battery than an LCD does. That make sense and then in terms of ranging distance. You know our new or long range performance range finders. We omit a lot more pulses in those okay so it’s going to use. More battery life gotcha. However we’ve upgraded the battery as well we’re. Now using a 1-2-3 than a C. Or two in their okay so the battery itself has. More juice in their okay. You know it also depends on how. You use a single button push. You use scan mode yep. One of the biggest drivers for battery consumption is stabilizing the power supply so every time.

You just push to power. You don’t range you are consuming battery life okay yeah good to know excellent. And always carry a spare battery with. You back to our range day. Or hunting kit whatever your kid carry extra batteries on. You’ll be thankful your buddies will be thankful. You have to get them out of a jam not a lot of weight in your pack so. How are ya Colin Gallagher 5 on Instagram. How far do they range. They range in a half of a yard we’ll go over the. When we’re going to go through the line. And tell they range. That interesting part. How far do they range. And half of yardages yeah. We have our so the distance. You know in terms of the accuracy yeah. That resolution okay. And the resolution we’ve got. It down to six inches six to eight inches in terms of what we can do Wow. We speck our accuracy different from. We speck our accuracy to 1/2 yard okay. That’s because when it’s calibrated yeah. You might be aw you know. You might have six eight twelve inches difference from the next rangefinder okay.

That would show up you compare to as an accuracy thing but the resolution itself we’ve got. It down to two just over six inches geez that’s crazy. And that’s throughout the whole line right there. All accurate like that that is correct. Ithink that’s important too so. You do go to the entry level. One you’re not gonna sacrifice accuracy correct. We are measuring in tenths of yards. We aren’t displaying intensive yards but our new range finders. We do display in tents until. You get to the high end stuff. And my belief is. You don’t need to see. You know if you’re using the 2800. Most likely shooting a rifle yeah. You don’t care about a tenth of er yeah that’s actually Chris Campaign there on Facebook.

He asked which models are accurate 2/10 of a yards so. You just answered that’s because specifically. He was talking about bow hunting right. That actually plays the major factor. We talked a little bit about yesterday. We were talking about. That that difference in bows as much. Because the drop is way. More precipitous right then right but ballistics is significantly. More important in archery. It is for rifle absolutely yeah Jake papas an Instagram which rage rangefinders give. You horizontal distance to the target negating the angle horizontal distance today a lot of people market their product as. You know it has an inclination.

And the assumption from. That is they do ballistics. That isn’t the case okay range finders. That have an inclination of the angle x line of sight distance. That is I’m in marketing so. Idon’t know anything about numbers. Or math so you know. II remember being in trig in high school. And thinking I’m never gonna use. This is important. It every day now but trig itself isn’t a great solution it’s an approximate solution okay so. All of our competitors. That market they have the angle capability. What they’re saying is. They do trig some people might know. It as Rifleman’s rule okay real old timers might know. It is the quick fix quick okay. And the important thing to so. What trig does is it gives. You the horizontal distance okay. If your bullet was flying in a vacuum. That would be fine right here on earth. We have atmospheric so the greater the bullet arcs the.

More atmosphere that’s put along. That bullet okay yep so. You start to calculate for the angle. What it’s doing is. It shorten the horizontal distance but your bullet is still arcing so the problem. That gets generated there is. That they’re significantly. More drag on the bullet. You know in the trig solution yeah. And so you’re likely going to shoot low okay. It doesn’t it doesn’t take. That into consideration that’s correct tricky trig does not the ballistic solutions so our TVR does okay yeah our true ballistic range. We have groups so. Than entering in BC’s. We enter groups yes oh. Iguess there’s probably good segue to talk about TVR so. That is our ballistic system. That is encompassed in. These range finders. That is much more accurate. That trigonometry geometry approximation. Even say the words so yeah so expand on. We got blister groups right with the range finder right. They come with a card. That kind of has all your well.

Many calibers on there we’ve got we’ve got 25 groups 25 group solved 999% chance. What you’re shooting is going to be in. One of those groups correct well a hundred percent chance as long as you’re shooting above about 1900 okay feet per second but. And a lot of people out there. That are into ballistics are going to say hey. That doesn’t that’s not going to be super accurate they’re the answer to. That is as so our ballistic solution shoots out to eight hundred yards. And until you get past eight hundred yards the averages. We use for atmosphere for elevation for temperature are good enough for a minute of death okay.

All right that makes. That makes perfect sense. Ithink that’s whenever. We talk to whenever. Italk to Eric about the trigonometry versus the TV. He gets super worked up about. It i-i-i-i a good rule of thumb for. That is trig is a great solution out to four hundred yards for rifle shooters yeah. It works great out to four hundred yards right there’s actually competitors user manuals out there. That don’t use this product past for him so. If you’re shooting at a really high angle 400 yards is probably the limit for trig moderate angles 600 yards is a good rule of thumb probably for trig. And then ya interpolate in between those that’s so Adam along those lines Adam Lingus on Facebook I’m always curious of what angle slash distance the compensation becomes inaccurate so.

We talked about 800 yards so the TV yard is good out to 800 yards right correct. What about he mentioned angle there. We measure our angle to 89 degrees okay. And the in Clinard ‘var the accelerometer. We use to measure angle is really accurate okay um but. You know a lot of people will say. Irule of thumb is as our devices are good at. Any angle okay yeah. You start shooting any realistic angle. That you’re gonna be shooting at right 90 degrees things get a little bit tricky. All right let’s see here. Another good I get a lot of calls yeah. Where people say I was on the edge of the cliff. You know I was shooting straight down. It was 90 degrees very.

Few people are ever in. That environment you know a rule of thumb is at about 25 degrees people start thinking yeah wow. This is crazy steep the only 90 degrees shots I’ve seen is. You see YouTube video. Someone nding into their holster. Idon’t think you know. Iget a rangefinder for. That so let’s see oh. This is a great question so Ernie Bishop on Facebook their thanks for turning in Ernie. What is the Mac disk max distance with your best rangefinder. It you’re with non-reflective targets in bright sunlight snow mirage so non reflective targets. Ithink that’s a great segue into talking about the different kinds of targets. You were ranging and. They function right yeah yes the darker the target yeah. And the smaller the target the less distance.

That you’re going to be able to get out to okay so in terms of what’s our max distance a lot of. It depends on target our newest rangefinder the 2800 we’ve had. It out in the field we’ve compared. It with everybody’s stuff I’m really excited about. This product I’m proud of. This product oh yeah. Me too we’ve been are. It our fourth generation engine the engineers. That have been working on. This is a this is the culmination of three years worth of effort. It shows yeah so how far does. It ranges we limited at three thousand yards. And there’re trade-offs in their so people are gonna say. You know somebody else ranges to three thousand.

And has the capability. You range a stop sign to 3500 the reality is. That doesn’t exist in nature. And you’re never going to be in. That environment right we’ve gotten. Ican routinely get. It with the fir trees here around town out to twenty-seven twenty-eight hundred that’s an occasional target. Ican reach pretty much. Any of the fir trees out to 2300 mm-hmm trees are pretty good at reflecting. That the signal back to the rangefinder. All trees are different yeah that’s true not. All trees are created equal just like. All range finders are created equal. And our fir trees were lucky here in the northwest they’re pretty reflective but for other targets. Ihave never not got a range back on. Anything out to 1800 yards so over a mile yeah we’re good on every target okay that’s good to know. And then we talked a little bit yesterday about rocks right people like to range rocks as reference points but rocks aren’t actually very good at sending.

That signal back to the rangefinder right. That is correct it’s counter intuitive to. What I would think I would think oh yeah. It just lands off the rock. And back to the rangefinder. That makes sense but yeah that’s. Another comment I hear a lot yeah is oh. You know I was raised in a really reflective target. You know a rock wall yeah rocks are different yeah just like the range finders yep. Some are very porous. They scatter the light everywhere yeah. And it’s difficult to get a good range back on same with steel targets like a fresh steel target probably okay but. You got like a pitted steel target that’s got a bunch of divots. And stuff going on you may not be the best thing to be ranging off of so yes. II it’s worth mentioning the 2800. It out in Madras you can get steel out too. You know past a mile easily oh yeah with.

That products yeah cool yeah well. You said eighteen hundred yards you’re good you’re gonna range. Everything inside of. That so oh here we go AJ lamb chop on Instagram. You make them so durable my rx 1000 is a tank. And still running strong. We make them durable. We use them yeah that is a good. What the thousand I’ve. Even accepted units back from people. That have gone through combines really they’ve been harvested in the fields. And I’ve wanted them. You know it’s a trophy is a Wall of shame yeah I’ve exchanged amount with people but. You know we’ve gotten stuff back. You know that have gone through. Everything and still worked just fine yeah. These things are super durable. One of the things too. It has loopholes on the side of. It’s gonna be durable we’ve tested the crap out of these things. That they’re going to not only perform in the field but also survive in the field also so yeah.

Ithink on the these have aluminum chassis don’t. They do sixteen hundred. And sixteen hundred has aluminum chassis yeah. We avoided the aluminum chassis on the 2800 due to weight yeah. We need to aluminum on the inside of. That which is where the unit gets its weight from yep so to counteract. We put right but this is durable high-impact Palmer yeah. Imean that’s super durable so cool let’s see nice so Logan Cummins 93 on Instagram. Icompared by 2800 to a Leica 2700. And a Saiga 2400 and the loopholed smoked in. Both an accuracy and clarity not really a question but that’s cool to hear right love bigger.

Though yeah this is the stuff. That makes Erik super happy so right that’s great. II will I think it’s also important to mention. We talked about some of the differentiators. What makes loop holt different our engineering team has done a lot of work to make sure. That the sunlight doesn’t impact our ranges so on the 2800. What the light we omit the Sun puts out a very similar type of light so. If you’re ranging into the Sun it’s very easy for a rangefinder to become confused okay. And that’s why you’ll see distances limited during bright daylight hours okay the new 2800 it’s its a feature. Iinternally call environmental adaptation but. What we’ve been able to do is negate the effects of the Sun yeah so. What you’ll actually see is in bright daylight ranging into the Sun. We will be able to range just as far. It was low-light conditions.

When traditional range finders do their best kind of correlates to. What we do with scopes right. Some special mechanical stuff lens system stuff inside to negate. When your well yeah. When you’re looking straight like maybe the sun’s rising and. You got a lot of glare. And a lot of light coming in to still be able to see. That target, so I guess kind of took those same kind of learnings. That in the rangefinder right so yeah yes Nick III will say. That one’s more of an electrical fix. And not a physical fix yeah with our scopes. Everything is more optical. Or physical for sure. One is good so mission 22 on Instagram thanks mission 22. You for tuning in which model do. You recommend for three guns. Or ranging out to a thousand-yard ish. It comes to three guns.

It comes down to personal preference yeah the 1600 of the 2800 will do. Both of those easily obviously the 1600 is a slightly smaller package but the 2800 will range a lot further so. It comes down to personal preference for. That but yeah I actually. If my personal preference. Iprobably would choose a 1300. If I’m just choosing one for three guns. And a thousand-yard ish out to 1300 yards it’s its smaller. You can see it’s a little. More compact I know three gun guys are always conscious of how much gear. You got towed around yeah you’re little you’re a little recycled kid. You know stroller with your stuff in. It so let’s face the take-up. And that’s gonna do. Everything you need to do in a three gun match right.

Some of those matches are starting to get incorporate. Some long-range stages. And stuff into it but that’s going to be able to do. Everything you need to do right. It will the 1300 it also has our FPGA based engine so you’re gonna get a lightning-fast response from. It ranges trees regularly out to 1100 easily yeah. And so yeah definitely personal preference yep actually a good Segway let’s talk about the lineup we’ve been mentioning a couple of these models but let’s start. And your entry level. And let’s work all the way up to the 2800 there so. Iour line starts with the 650 yeah. That is our budget friendly product. It uses the traditional LCD so you’re going to get roughly 20% light transmission through. That does great range targets out to 700 easily 800 easily. And then we move up to the 1300 family. That product we upgrade the engine in. We start to display in tents for archers ok the product uses our FPGA engine so you’re gonna see it’s really fast you’re gonna get your responses back very quickly actually so.

These are a little different engine from. This entry-level 650 right there correct okay. We introduced our in climate err. And our TBR ballistics ok the 1300s. We talked about before. That full draw 3 that archery specific model 2 right. That is correct that does the horizontal distance in archery out to 175 yards yep so that’s the that’s the max distance for the archery mode on. That right correct cool. And then jumping up to. That so the next in the line is our 1600 family. We introduce our OLED display yeah. It has the same TV our software inside of. We do our ballistics out to 850. We have a variety of finishes.

Ilike to call the blaze orange rangefinder the second rangefinder. That you’ll buy I actually have. One in my range kit. And well I mean people like will pull. And be like what are. What really and I’m like. Idon’t love the look of. It but man I’m never gonna lose. This thing right yeah. Icould leave it over there leave a hundred yards away right you’re gonna find it so. It comes down to personal preference. And choice of patterns but yeah. You know a lot of people are afraid. That an animal might be able to see. It cannot and so but. You can so you sit down on a stump yeah. And you’re ranging everything and. You leave it on the stump yeah you’re gonna see. That a lot better than you’re gonna see. That excellent point very well-thought-out. And then we move up to the new product for this year the 2800. This is our latest and greatest it’s got.

All the bells and whistles it’ll wash your dishes park your car for you’ve earned. What are the price points on. Iknow people are probably interested not to sound super infomercial II yeah. We started around roughly 180. And then move up to the new 2800 said five hundred dollars okay so. Imean five hundred dollars for. That performance that’s actually not super bad let’s see. We were gonna get this question so Robinson outdoors on IG are the range finders covered under the gold ring warranty so our range finders are covered under the electric electronic warranty yep there’s a two-year warranty it’s a two-year warranty. Something you know our customers they’ve been buying rifle scopes. And binoculars for 70 years yep. They want their products to last. And there’s an expectation around a lifetime warranty yep unfortunately electronics will eventually fail it’s just it’s the physical limitations of where electronics are yes right so it’s its exactly like your cell phone your TV at home it’s gonna die.

All the features inside of your car yeah. They will fail, and so we’ve put a very generous two-year warranty on. And we’re always a little bit flexible here at loopholed. When somebody calls up. Because absolutely it’s difficult to know. You purchase it but detox on Instagram does accuracy lesson at increased distances. It does a number of people SPECT their accuracy is a percentage. Ifeel very confident in our higher-end products in terms of accuracy. It comes down to a timing issue okay. Itrust our EE engineering designer he’s got a date dialed he’s got dialed in he’s been figuring out. How to detect planes from. Many miles away he knows exactly. He knows exactly how to nail. That’s a good I wanted to talk a little bit about the 2800 since its new. And talked about the Alpha IQ system. That so it’s a new engine for. That talking about long range.

And increased accuracy distance so explain a little bit. That alpha IQ system means alright. We branded our first engine with DNA digitally enhanced accuracy that’s. We started overcoming some of these white dark target issues distance accuracy issues. And then with our new engine so our Gen 4 engine. It the Alpha IQ we’ve incorporated those same DNA capabilities, but we’ve souped. It up so yeah where our traditional range finders put out roughly six to seven hundred pulses in a second our new alpha IQ engine is putting out 13000 pulses a second so. You went from seven to eight hundred. Or 79 over whatever was to thirteen thousand correct okay. That makes sense why it’s so fast. You get a reading back at the distance right correct yeah crazy there’s a lot of other things going on in order to get. That distance back as quickly as possible yeah but with.

That yeah with the 13000 per pulse. And we’re right up against the eye safety limits there okay yeah. All of our products are class three R which is eye safe okay. We submit everything to the FDA that’s that’s. This snazzy little yellow label. We have to put on the back of the range finders kind of screws up the aesthetics of. You know you’re legally obligated to have to do. That so yeah good question from gee-whiz e18 on Instagram which model would. You recommend when paired with a cds scope setup dialing out the 700 gr. Any of our products from the 13 up to the 2800 yep. All incorporate choosing your ballistics yeah. And there’s a lot of belief out there. You have ballistics on a dial. That your rangefinder doesn’t need ballistics yeah.

That is not true okay. You need ballistics inside of the rangefinder in order to give. That shoot tube distance okay. Where the dial accommodates for the environmental factors mm-hmm the TBR inside of the rangefinder is what’s going to give. That accurate distance okay. And then you can dial. It on the dial that accurate distance. You ranged in size range finder that’s correct okay. Iso from the 13 up to the 2800. All use the TBR W it is the fastest. Most accurate solution out there yeah you’re not having to look at data tables. And things it’s a range dial yeah that’s its a great point talking about the kit. And talking about how the products. You know work in conjunction with. Each other so you choose your ballistic group. You get your ballistics dialed. And the rangefinder. You arrange you get your custom dial with. That cds system we take your specific ballistics off the rifle muzzle velocity ballistic coefficient your environmental data.

What type of bullet you’re shooting we do. That math for you it on a custom dial. That has yardages on the side of. It like Eric said you got to do range with. That accurate TBR range dial the dial to. That range so it’s 550 yards. You dial to 55 use the center your reticle. And it’s its super simple so. It is yeah it takes a lot of guesswork out. And which is to me it’s important you’re out there. You know buck fever is a real thing people get a little. You know freaked out. When they’re gonna maybe. You take their you know. If you’re a seasoned hunter. You get excited right yep. And the last thing I want to do again being a marketing guy who doesn’t do math is done math right in the field so the simpler.

Ican make it for myself. We better we have worked to take. All those capabilities out of there for sure. You know I’ve read some questions over the years in terms of our ballistics. You know if you’re not putting in your BC. If you’re not putting in your elevation. We mentioned this briefly a minute ago out to 800 yards our solution actually. We are within 1/2 MOA at 600 yards oh so. We are typically better. Than peoples capability. Or people’s rifles and our TBR solution. We have 25 groups and that’s zeroed in at 200. Somebody says hey how come. You stopped it at 800 yards hokum. You can’t go further well past 800 yards. All those other conditions become so much of a factor. That to get from 800 to 900 we’d have to go from 25 to groups to 250 groups yeah. And to get another 100 yards after. That we’d probably have to go to 2000 groups okay which would be a little overwhelming for sure let’s see. Ijust want to you know common issues slash tips. And tricks that maybe.

You would recommend to people. When they’re using range finders the. We get the most talking to the tech service guys. That are at one 1-800 loophole there. You have an issue is sometimes you’ll have our tree mode. Or bow mode on in one of these. That bow mode only you can only arrange 175 yards that’s the max distance so. They try to arrange. Something further they can’t get a distance. We do give a distance so. That was in our earlier range fine okay so. We fixed that. We did fix what had happened there. We haven’t sold a product like. That for ten years okay well. We still get questions about the way. We do but for our new. Once you’ve hit the limit of the ballistics no matter. What product you have. It converts over to line-of-sight mode okay. We blink a little LS down there to make sure. You can tell now in l OS mode but. That would go out to the TBR like TBR for instant goes to 800 sos by bringing something past 800 it’s just going to give.

That line of sight distance that’s correct okay. That makes sense any other kind of tips. Or tricks someone asked. Ican’t remember was. They were talking about oh yeah Nathan Way on Facebook. How does the early morning fog. You affect arranging I’m sorry early morning yeah fog. Or do so not specifically rain but maybe. Some mist something coming up from fields. You know so the rain. And the fog it’s very similar to the noise. We talked about earlier okay. And our 2800 so the answer is. This yes and depending on the quality of the rangefinder depends on the effect of what you’re going to see yeah there was as well. Another effect it depends on how the software inside of the unit is processed okay a common question. We get is can one rangefinder for golf. And honey and unfortunately so the answer. That would be yes but you’re gonna make compromises for. That in golf we set the software to look for first target capability which is.

We were able to find a flag in front of a forest of trees behind. You know a flag puts off a very small return. Where a tree behind it’s going to put off. You know in a short distance gonna put off a very large return we’re in hunting you’re looking for a deer. Or a tree and you’re not looking for these super small targets different situation maybe it’s a right tool for the right job yeah. Ican drive a nail in with a sledge hammer but. It may not be the best way to do. It rights yeah okay cool so it’s. Some other I like to break down common issues into. Both technical and user okay so for technical issues. We talked a little bit about. You know say first target technology versus. Most target one is people thinking.

That the target is reflective okay. We talked a little bit about. That yeah you know the darker a target is. More porous a target is the worse the capabilities are okay yeah a. It showed itself in earlier range finders with black foam targets on a 3d course okay for archery shooters super porous. And absolutely yeah that’s super black yeah. Isuspect I’m still waiting for my invite to go in. And access hunt in Hawaii meeting. That lava would be the absolute worst. Some walk over there but it’s not quite axis deer hunting in that’s correct. II’m waiting for a z-axis deer to go do. Some testing well you can get. Another issue is a common alright I’ll call. This a misperception okay over the years there’s a lot of questions. Somebody says what’s your beam divergence. And my belief is. Anybody is asking about being divergence is asking.

That question they think. That the smallest beam divergence will be the longest ranging capability out there okay. That definitely is not the case oh okay beam divergence is a function so. You know similar to the horsepower of an engine inside of a car. You can have you know a really tight divert. This case you know an engine. That has a lot of horsepower but. If your transmission is only geared to get. You know not to get out of first gear you’re gonna have a lot of torque but you’re not gonna have a lot of top speed okay. And so it’s very similar with our range finders. Where being able to get the single back process the noise out of. It is just as important.

More important as well as just the power levels so. How much your drive so it’s really about. These things working in conjunction with sister it’s not. One thing or the other the range finder engine is a system just like our CD s. And in TBR is the system hunter 77 on Instagram. This question was going to come up to who maybe will tease a little bit does the 2800 have a ballistic calculator. We are continuously innovating new products stay tuned. That answer so Eric. Ijust want any last words. You want to say about the range finders. Anything we missed. II’m available here. If people have questions Eric’s direct line to his desk. II could talk you need to cut. When you’re done with. You know other what are. Some other things you know. Another thing that’s great about having the team work here. You know for say is false positives.

We always felt like giving somebody the wrong information was going to be a bigger issue. Than not giving somebody information at. All yeah so one of the things. We make sure we do is not provide people false positives okay. That comes from establishing a threshold for noise. We identify our targets. You know for example with a new twenty-eight hundred we’ve set. We are likely to only get a false reading in. One in ten thousand oh yeah so. We have compromised. What our max distance could be in order make sure. We never provide somebody a wrong information super important. That goes through kind of. Everything we do these loopholed lives. We get to pull back the curtain a little bit. And explain why we did. Something like that right why didn’t. You why is it your Mac distance four thousand yards. Something like that well because of.

That right so I’m so glad. You asked that you’re interested so. You know another trade-off. We make here with range finders in terms of what your max distance capability is so. We could set the max distance on. This to be significantly. More yeah but you’re likely only to get. You know license plates stop signs street signs okay but. What you do compromise is the number of pulses. You can omit think of. This way you send a pulse out. We have to get that back before. We send the next one out in order to be sure. What we’re ranging okay so. You know similar to radar your max distance. You can range it’s going to be limited to the number of pulses. More pulses we send out the. More likely we are to get a target reading back okay.

That makes sense okay yeah should. That a different way no. That made sense okay so but again to the point like. We could totally stretch legs on. This thing out a little bit. More yep then you’re compromising other you’re only gonna pick up targets. That don’t exist in the environment yeah. We want to make sure. That we’re proposing yeah for steal for targets. That people are going to be. What you’re actually gonna be using in the field right yeah excellent okay awesome Eric thank. You so much for coming by. And sharing about the product. That answered a lot of questions. You guys probably have. More questions feel free to type them in the comments. And we’ll get back to. Ididn’t get through. You know half these here they’re super good questions but like.

Isaid type them out. You know we encourage. You guys to sign up go on Luke welkom sign up for the core insider newsletter. That way we launch new products like. This twenty-eight hundred. Or maybe whatever is coming next. You get an email and you’re the first to know about. That new product coming out. We got a lot of other cool stuff on there too cool stories cool in the field tips tricks. That kind of stuff in the sign up for the core insider newsletter. And yeah it’s its awesome so until next time thanks guys for joining us thanks Nick yeah.

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