hi everybody Todd Helms from Eastmans' hunting journals here today to talk to
you about the new Sig Sauer BDX system
the B DX in the B DX system stands for ballistic data exchange this system is
powered by the applied ballistics ultra light calculator or the abu system and
Sig what they've done here is they've developed a rifle scope and a
rangefinder that pair together obviously electronic and they exchange ballistic
data once you have the system configured to match your bullet trajectory, muzzle
velocity and ballistic coefficient the system is designed to give you precise
holdovers the scope communicates with the rangefinder in what is essentially a
digital dope chart if you will and once your ballistics profile is set up you
can hit ranges downrange with the kilo rangefinder this is an 1800 BDX and the
rangefinder will communicate with the scope and adjust an LED within the
reticle of the scope to give you a precise holdover within about an MOA
that's what Sig claims and from my experience out here on the range with it
that's what I'm seeing inside of 800 I found it to be quite precise well within
an MOA and it's a lot of fun to plank steel with shoot prairie dogs with perhaps
coyotes
400 yards
for a lot of people I think one of the stumbling blocks to a system
like this the technology is that they're afraid of it it might be afraid that
it's difficult to use not the case at all
this is was a very easy system to use once I downloaded the app and I created
my ballistics profile within the app again I needed my caliber which in this
case it's a 300 Winchester Magnum I needed the bullet weight that I was
shooting which I'm shooting the 200 grain ELDX and the precision hunter from
Hornady then I needed my g7 BC which is as simple as going and looking that up
on whatever bullet company's website you happen to be shooting and ultimately
then you need a muzzle velocity the more accurate you can get on your muzzle
velocity the more accurate your data is going to be during the data exchange and
the more accurate than your point of aim and the scope is going to become if you
do your part with proper squeeze and hold and form the ballistics data
exchange system does its part as well and puts the bullet where it needs to go
another thing that the BDX app does is it you can get much more in-depth than
just range point shoot this app actually will give me everything from windage and
declination and my range to my environmental conditions such as
barometric pressure I can enter in wind speed in here if I had a Kestrel I could
communicate back and forth bluetooth wise and this app is extremely advanced
and it would give me very very detailed ballistic information as I'm dialing
different yardages there's an electro dot in the scope that's adjusting up and
down the vertical crosshair and as I'm dialing different yardages it will drop
down and come back up and hold exactly where you need to hold within one minute
of angle so far this morning that one minute of angle has been perfect and now
we're gonna step it out to 600 and we'll see what happens
I held into the wind on the edge of the target so I held an MOA and a half into
the wind I'm just estimating the wind and if I had a specific window I could
put that into the scope and it would give me exact windage hold
so in closing I hope you enjoyed this overview of the Sig Sauer BDX system
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