hey gang todd helms with eastmans out here today to review the vortex fury hd 5000 ab binos and
show you why you should be looking at them if you're in the market for range finding binoculars
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stay abreast of all of the great material coming out of the office here in wyoming so the fury line
of binoculars from vortex is their range finding binoculars and they've been out for a few years
now but vortex completely revamped a bunch of different products last year well earlier in 2021
and they will be releasing throughout the year one of those products that they revamped
is the fury line they added an hd and 10 by 42 with the 5000 and then the ab and you're like
that's a lot of acronyms or numbers what what is that well 5000 stands for yardage capability on
on reflective targets and a b stands for applied ballistics this set of binoculars right here which
i'm going to just go ahead and show you this is a little dirty i've been using them which is good
you're supposed to use stuff you review right i wrote a hardcore field test on the fury hd 5000 ab binos
in ehj184 that was our sheep issue so this new vortex tripod looks pretty sweet right well guess
what vortex completely revamped their entire line of tripods and they have three different tripods
available now with carbon fiber options these things are rugged durable and they are awesome
and we reviewed those in ebj i-124 you can find both issues of that on tag hub so if you're not
a tag hubs premium subscriber go sign up you can read even more about that plus i can't even
explain all the content we have on there you've got tag research information and you've got all
of the video content that we do and both journals as well so check tag hub out in case you haven't and
we are giving away vortex optics and equipment if you're signed up you're going to be eligible for
the vortex giveaway in the past the furies were just a straight up range finding binocular which
is great but what vortex wanted to do was put some on board ballistics calculation capability
into this package and that's exactly what they did they've taken the proven applied ballistics
technology and put it on board within the fury hd 5000 a b and i've been playing with them a little
bit a little bit at the rifle range and glassing animals and had them out the optical quality is
really impressive on these with the hd glass and the 10 by 42 size but what's really impressed me
is the ab the applied ballistics engine that i'm going to walk you through and show you
how that is going to work i'm not going to spend a lot of time today showing you how to
set it up and do all that because i'm just going to say this i'm kind of a digital neanderthal and
this was easy for me to set up they paired really easily with the app on my phone with the fury app
vortex has an app on your phone that you can use in conjunction so you have a ballistics calculator
on your phone and it pairs via bluetooth with this or you can have an onboard ballistics calculation
in the binocular i chose to use the app pairing it was super simple so say i hit a range and it
tells me that my moa come up is going to be 3.25 it'll show me that if i wait
about two seconds in here it'll go from range to show me my come up in the binocular display
which is phenomenal you don't have time to get out your phone that's fine it'll do it for you
right in the binocular and show you your come up or that's in the ballistics mode or
you have them paired together you look down and go well that was fast i've got a 3.25 come up
that's how i prefer to run this in the ballistics mode i'm not going to walk you through exactly how
i did it how it all works vortex has videos on their website that you can see how to do that
plus the manual that comes in this is literally step one step two step three by the time you
get through those steps you are ready to walk out the door and go fire this bad boy up say you need
a range way out there and you can get a range off of a building or off of a boulder or
something like that something that's big and is really going to bounce that laser back quickly
these binos are capable out to 5 000 yards on something like that on a big reflective target
but they also go into five yards so it's not just for the rifle guys this is a great optic
for the bow hunter too especially you bow hunters that like me i'm not straight archery and i'm not
straight rifle i like to do both so i need an optic that is going to give me archery ranges
in sept august and september when i'm bow hunting antelope and elk and deer and i need it to also
reach out later in the season and give me some of those longer ranges with the rifle this bad boy
is going to do both so you don't have any big reflective targets but you've got some trees
you're going to go from five to twenty four hundred yards with the fury hd 5000 a b
as far as capability of like ranging a big conifer or something like that now great that's great
todd i'm out on the open plains i'm hunting mule deer in wide open country or or antelope i need
the capability to range at distance on an animal you're gonna have the ability with this binocular
to go from five to sixteen hundred yards on an animal i don't know about you but 1600 yards is
a long ways i haven't done anything at 5 000 but out to a thousand 2 000 yards no problem on small
rocks bushes even a couple of antelope so it does what it says it's going to do as far as capability
of ranging targets so included with this is some eyepiece covers rain guard eyepiece covers
a comfort neck strap optics tether you can do all kinds of stuff i i go for the i go for the
the glass pack every single time i like that it's right on my chest i like the
capability of it honestly most of the time when i'm out hunting and hiking i don't even
i forget this is even here until i need to deploy my binoculars so the fury hd
5000 ab is a 10 by 42 binocular it weighs in the neighborhood of 30 ounces i'm thinking
if i remember correctly it's about 32 ounces it's about five inches six inches tall
this is just a good all-around size it's not too heavy it's what i've come to rely upon
in a rangefinding binocular not giant not real heavy but compact it fits in the glass pack well
all right so let's get to the nuts and bolts let's get to what makes this fury hd 5000 ab
special it's the ab in the name the applied ballistics shooting solution system
that is on board in these and works through the app or straight through the bino that there's
two different modes you can choose to operate in there's an hcd mode and there's a ballistics
motor a bal mode the mode that vortex intended for most people to use in a hunting situation
is called the hcd mode the hcd mode is for all archery ranges it is for shooting a rifle on
flat ground at any distance and it is for shooting a rifle out to 800 yards with a degree a less than
15 degree slope so if your slope is less than 15 degrees it will give you accurate aiming solutions
out to 800 yards when your degrees of slope change from 15 to 30 degrees you bring that you bring
that range back down to 400. now like i said vortex intended this to be the primary hunting
application mode i have this turned on to the bal mode i like to have very precise aiming solutions
with a rifle i like to set up have several different profiles set up in the app there are
pre-formed profiles i'm gonna put these away and pull that phone out and actually pull the app up
so if i go into the firearms section of the app
i was able to add my own rifle which is a 7mm remington magnum
all i had to do was go into the bullet library for the 7mm magnum under hornady and look up
my bullet it had all of the information such as sectional density ballistic coefficient
pre-programmed into the app and there's hundreds of bullet selections in that fury app that you can
choose from i chose the 7mm so 0.284 for caliber my bullet weight's 162 grains the bullet make or
the bullet manufacturers hornady in the model is an eldx all i needed then was my zero range which
for this rifle is 200 yards and my muzzle velocity i've chronographed my muzzle velocity with this
rifle before and i'm sitting my average muzzle velocity is right around 29,166 feet per second
you could take the information right off the box that works however you're going to have
more precise aiming solutions if you get a very precise measurement of your muzzle
velocity that's where the chronograph comes into play if you're not into any of that and you just
want to look up a load well guess what the fury has a 308 default mode a 6.5 default mode and a
5.56 default mode those are all in here and you can just think go in there and it will give you
aiming solutions for the average load say 150 grain load for a 308 or a 140 grain load for
a 6'5 or a 55 grain bullet bullet weight for a 5.56 those are pre-programmed in there already
but the capabilities of the app in the ballistics mode are endless again vortex built this system
so you have flexibility super impressed with this new fury hd 5000 ab i think it's time
that we quit talking and we start shooting let's put her to work and see what we can do
297 yards that gives me a 1.61 come up 1.61 so i'm going to dial the 1.5
moas and we're going to send one and see and see where we are but that was fast
again i'm in ballistics mode i ranged and spit out my correction right there on the phone
so let's get down on the gun and let's send one and see if my dope is correct
so one
yeah let's try that
all right here we go
looked pretty good pretty sure i smacked it
we're gonna grab another range a little further this time
i'll go straight up the hill
and that's giving me a readout of 5.54 moas
so i'm going to make my adjustment and we'll get in the gun
there's five and a half 5.54 moas is my come up that was in ballistic mode
i hit it it adjusts for the angle all everything the angle of the dangle because i've got a pretty
good uphill here so the calculator is doing all the all of the math for me it's just
giving me a shoot to range so we're gonna get in the scope and see if we can hit that
rock up there i need to back down the hill just a touch make this a little easier
there it is
cranked it
that's a dead elk right there so that's two shots at hunting ranges for me
one right around 300 and the other one just shy of 500. a 500 yard shot the boulder i'd have to
walk up there mate and look but it's about the size of an elk vital zone and i smoked it so
this is cool this is perfect i want to do one more i'm going to come back in just a little
bit but that was that's so easy how that works this is an awkward field shooting position and
i'm still able to make that shot so let's pick out one more target got another rock it is vital size
280 so my aiming adjustment is going to be 1.30 again guys these are hunting ranges for
me these are in my wheelhouse so my my readout is 1.30 come back to zero i'm gonna go up to one
we'll go one and a half and we'll just hold a little bit low and see what happens
let's do it hopefully i can get on that thing again this is an awkward angle but
i think we should be able to pull it off
all right
smoke man this fury hd 5000 ab makes this easy i mean easy between getting a range
and it's spitting it out to your app on your phone tough angle field shooting style positions
and i've hit every target that i've shot at meaning my dope correction is spot on vortex
has thought this through they've made it so any this this technology is accessible to anybody
it's going to work for the layman like me and it's going to work for advanced guys that need
really precise aiming solutions in the field you combine all this ease of use all this technology
you roll it into a package for under $2,000 and you put it into an optic that is high quality hd
glass phenomenal lens coatings my sight picture is bright light transmission is phenomenal color
everything is great that is the fury hd ab obviously it also comes with vortex's phenomenal
warranty program guys this is a tough product to beat check it out get your hands on one if you can
get out and put some time in one into one behind the field or in the field behind a gun or bow
do it you're gonna be impressed hey until next time we'll see you in the field