Handheld Ballistic Computer??

buffcrewchief

buffcrewchief

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Just doing some looking on ballistics programs and ran across a handheld version that looks like a palm pilot. Didn't say much about it but it looked like you type in your range, wind speed, etc. and it does all the math for you and tells where to aim. Anyone ever seen anything like it before???
 
A buddy of mine has one. He took it, a Kestrel? (handheld weather station), and his 6BR to our 500yd range this summer. Puked all the necessary data into the program (MV, atmospheric press, bullet wt, wind speed/direction, elevation, temp, humidity) and proceeded to shoot a 3/4" 5shot group at 500yds. Let me qualify this by saying my buddy is a heck of a shooter, the 6BR is a custom built benchrest rifle shooting handloads he has tweeked over the years. It didn't make him or his rifle shoot better, it removed most of the guesswork (still have mirage to deal with). He was impressed and very pleased w/ his purchase.
 
I appreciate it the thing i was looking at was on the Marine evaluation program web site and look as if this thing was still being invented. Didn't think one was already on the market.
 
I have a cheap Palm pilot with the EXBAL program loaded into it. Take it to the range whenever I shoot the long guns. Got a Kestrel too...

A Kestrel weather station measures your atmospheric conditions (station pressure, temp, humidity, wind speed & direction) at the time of the shot that you input into EXBAL for digestion.

The Kestrel is a weather gauge, not a ballistic calculator. You need some other PDA device (Palm or other) with a ballistic program loaded in it (EXBAL,JBM) to determine your drops & holds...
 
Knock'emdown, what palm pilot did you get? I would get the nightforce program, but I haven't found a real cheap palm pilot to put it on.
 
Verm2,
I got a Palm Z22 on sale @ Best Buy a while back. With the advent of Blackberrys & the like, there are plenty of deals out there on "outdated" Palms. I've seen them in the $40 range...
 
I also have an old Sony Clie' that i have Exbal on. Just a couple days ago i was out at the range shooting a Custom XP-100 handgun using the 3-12x Burris LER Ball. Plex reticle. I ran the specs into the program and after confirming x-hair zero at 225 went straight to the 425 yd. tgt. Exbal calcd. 2.7 stadia units down for my loads zero at that range and the 1st shot nailed the silhouette dead center. Wished the rest did that but the gp. opened up to about 4.5", but the avg. was good for elevation. So that was good enuf for me.

Buddy of mine has it on a Dell Axim, and he used it and his Kestrel to nail a cow elk at long-range with his handgun couple years ago.
 
SS,
I had the neighbors over at the farm two weeks ago to shoot some steel. He brought an old Mauser actioned '06 that he reconditioned to try out to 400yds. I told him I had a spare box of 150gr Core Loks to burn, so he came on over..

Shot at 100yds and was the typical 1.5" high. After a quick peek through his scope to see where his plex reticle was subtending on the 12" target @ 400, I told him where to hold. Tip of the bottom heavy post on the top of the steel...

Well, he sent one down to 400 and rung it dead center! And did it four more times! Boy, the look on his face was priceless. He is very proud of that old rifle...
 
That is so cool KED. Man, isn't it great when IT works? Especially when it's improvised from experience, ehhh??--better yet with a vintage-type rig. Sweet!

Took my Filippina wife out shooting my 17 MIV XP-100 several years ago. I set up a rock on top of 1 of our 400 yd. target frames, and told her where to put the plex reticle for the shot using Exbal once the rig was zeroed. She nailed it on the 1st shot. She signed and dated the rock and it's now in my "head room." That's what she calls it--the only room in the house i have any control over (BTW, she says we're all going to [beeep] because we shoot "aneemals"). Dam she makes me laugh! She loves to shoot tho.
 


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