hey everybody Brandon Mason here with Eastman's we're gonna review the
Sig Sauer BDX system we're gonna show you how to customize and make your reticle
inside your rifle scope modular to be specific to the load and the hunt that
you're going on all within the same scope from Sig Sauer there's been a lot
of talk about the Sig Sauer BDX system the last couple years and those that are
really traditional like myself have wondered when that first came out oh man
is this violating fair chase standards and I'm here to tell you after using it
out for two years it does not there is no way that this violates fair chase
standards we're all used to using really powerful and techy turrets on our rifle
scopes and what the Sig Sauer system does is it allows you to either have the
rangefinder in the rifle scope and the app on your smart device talk in the in
the 1.0 system which Todd Helms on our team has already reviewed and we have
that video up on our youtube channel but today what we're gonna show you are some
features that we haven't focused on yet so to make things simpler for twenty
twenty Sig Sauer came out with the BDX 2.0 system so in addition to the
features that the system already had you can also set it up to be a little bit
more dumbed down and user-friendly so say you don't have all three of the
components of the BDX system the rifle scope and app on your smart phone which
is free but maybe you're not a smartphone user nor the range-finding
device well Sig is fix that problem if you just own the rifle scope you can do
a quick turn on your rifle scope dial on the the zoom dial and you can select
eight pre-loaded ballistic profiles for common profiles that really the bulk of
hunters use maybe you have the rangefinder and the rifle scope but you
don't like using an app when you're out hunting or you don't have a smart device
no problem you can get these two to talk and load those same eight pre-loaded
ballistic profiles onto the rifle scope so you can just go hunting if you're
just used to using more of a BDC type reticle this can be set up to do it and
consequently a more ethical hunter making a better shot
that I'm used to and that I'm extremely familiar with okay so the
first thing we're going to show you is how to customize your reticle if you are
using the app and the Sierra BDX rifle scopes with the help of the app
we're gonna build our own BDC reticle and this is just phenomenal you don't
have to worry about in the field whether or not the rangefinder and the rifle
scope we're gonna communicate if you're worried about that we've never had
problems with it but some people just want to eliminate one problem variable
in the field that's fine SIG's got that figured out you want to
just use it as a BDC reticle mission accomplished that's what we're gonna do
on my rifle scopes I generally zero in at 200 and again I like the old thirty
out six round so I'm with most rounds about three inches high at one hundred
and at three hundred depending on the load I can be up to maybe 8 inches low
at three hundred so on most big-game animals at two hundred yards or really
from three hundred yards and down I can just put the reticle on them and shoot
so we're gonna turn on the 200-yard reticle because that's all I need to
worry about it those ranges then I'm gonna turn on the 400-yard reticle and
then I'm gonna turn on the 600 or 700 yard reticle just to show you what that
looks like me personally I limit my shots to under five hundred yards for
sure usually I'm under four hundred yards but I'll turn on these reticles so
that you can see what they look like in case you want to push that envelope a
little bit farther if you're more comfortable in doing that or even if
you're just messing around the range but all you need is one smartphone with the
free Sig Sauer BDX app and so I'm going to turn on my
zero range of 200 and you can see it just turned on in the scope I'm going to
turn on 400 and then I'm gonna turn on 700 just so you can see the difference
so with that lit up okay so now maybe that's what I have set up for an elk on
two weeks from now maybe I'm gonna be hunting mule deer yeah I don't really
want that 700 yard turned on but I want the 500 yard turned on and I'll go ahead
and turn on the 100 and the 300 and you can see all those lighting up in the
reticle that's all you have to worry about it essentially what this BDX
system does is it allows you to have if you want to use it this way
you're BDC reticle and you're dope chart is right in here and it doesn't depend
on cell phone service because you're probably thinking yeah that's fine and
dandy but where I hunt there are there isn't any cell phone service well same
here and so all this information is basically on your profile on the phone
in the app and if you want it to they can Bluetooth talk now let's just say
what if you don't understand what bluetooth is some people don't I I know
a lot of people that don't understand what all that
what's Wi-Fi what's bluetooth what's all this you know terminology for our smart
devices Bluetooth simply means it's a wireless way for a couple devices to
talk every one of us has a remote for a television we don't call that bluetooth
but that's what those two two devices are doing it's not projecting anything
some people were concerned about the bdx system that it was projecting something
onto the animal which is illegal in most states it's not doing that
it's simply all in here so now that we showed you how to customize your reticle
based on your ballistic profile that you have loaded into the app already okay to
show you how the BDX 2.0 system works there's two different ways to use it and
the first way that we're going to show you is when you're using the rangefinder
we're gonna use the the kilo 3000 range-finding binoculars to show this we
could use the any of their other BDX range finders to with our handy-dandy
BDX 2.0 card we're gonna select the profile
of those eight different ballistic profiles that are pre-loaded that best
fits our setup and group five the ballistic profile five that has common
30.6 ballistics i'm gonna choose that and then we're gonna see it light up in
our scope so then it I know where to hold at the various ranges is pretty
slick okay so I have the rifle scope dialed to the setting one which is going
to help it talk to the rangefinder to load the preloaded ballistic data and
select the profile you want and I'm gonna hold in the range in the mode
buttons for three seconds together okay now I'm gonna select profile five what
the mode button and there now the 30.6 profile that I wanted is the reticle
that I'm using on my scope now we're going to show you an even simpler way
that doesn't require any Bluetooth connectivity if you just have the rifle
scope we take our brightness selector and we set it to one of the levels in
the BDX 2.0 card that we've already mentioned so I'm going to turn my
brightness selector to five and then I'm gonna move my zoom dial from highest to
lowest three times within ten seconds and it's going to pick up that setting
and I'm all set it's all done it's that easy and then
there's your customized reticle for whatever hunting scenario whatever load
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