hey everybody this is PJ Reilly from Lancaster Archery outside here at our pro shop outdoor
range got a product video for you wanted to tell you about the brand new Garmin Xero A1i Pro
Laser Rangefinding bow sight this is basically the Cadillac of bow sight this does everything
just in your bow sight as bow hunters we have sights we have range finders you got it all in
one here with the Garmin Xero A1i Pro now folks are probably familiar with the Garmin Xeros you
know they've been out for a couple years with the pro version Garmin has just made some tweaks that
users have been asking for the last couple years we're going to tell you about some of those
Garmin has covered the initial setup and they run through every single one of the features how you
can customize them for yourself they've got a great video right here that you can check out
for all that setup information what we wanted to do was tell you about the site first of all and
then show you some of the uh some of the features that you're more likely to use as a bow hunter
just to give you a sense of how easy it is to use this site all the functions will work
similar to the ones we're going to tell you about so we'll give you an idea of how easy
it is to work with this site but to start out we wanted to tell you about the physical site
because with the A1i Pro Garmin added a few things that we really look for
especially in the target archery world they've built into this site and that is micro adjust
so your elevation and windage are both done with micro adjust knobs right here i have my
this is my elevation you know just turning that by clicks i can move the site up and down right here
on the side i have my windage same thing micro adjust left and right you know as i'm getting
it dialed in now you're going to see two more micro adjust knobs you're going to see one here
and you're going to see one here i'll start with this one since that's where i'm holding it so one
of the things that Garmin has to have happen with this site is you got to get it you have to get the
screen in here aligned with your eye so that the laser is true to your eye that may require you
to change the pitch of this scope so you can see here on this one there's a curve so that as you
micro adjust this on this axis you're changing the pitch of this scope up and down with this one here
now you're swinging it like a door this is another adjustment so you're bringing that scope in and
out like a door again to get it perfectly flat with your eye so that that laser rangefinder works
for you but again all micro adjust Garmin has put put in there it did not have micro adjust on the
A1i so the pro is definitely an upgrade there another upgrade they have is the dovetail right
here so you've got a dovetail mount you've got two positions for it right here i have it in this
mount i could slide it forward here but what that does it allows you to disconnect the sight you
know you're traveling somewhere that may not fit easily into a bow case you can pop it off you've
got a quick disconnect for your cord your trigger cord quick disconnect right there i disconnect
those i can pop that right off for taking it you know if i want to put it in a bow case
some things that they kept the same of course you can see i have my trigger right here so when i am
in my grip and i want to arrange a target all i got to do is reach down hit that button
get my range and then i am ready to shoot so some of the adjustments that you're going to get in the
scope here you have your pins with the a1i pro you can select whether you want them to be whether you
want your aiming dot to be red or green you get to choose you can change the brightness on there
you can have it set to where you range and you just have a pin at that specific range
or you can set it up to where you have fixed pins if you feel more comfortable with that
you can do that as well and it will give them to you for every 10 yards right now the way i have
this set up it's got a stack of pins in there that run from 20 to 70 yards every 10 yards
now the a1i pro another thing it comes with is called an XD uh setting which is extended range
so as i said uh the stack the pin stack that i have allows me to shoot from 20 to 76 yards
the 76 yard pin is going to be all the way at the bottom for me well if i want to shoot out to 100
110 whatever i hit XD range and then it will show me where i need to slide the scope to i'll lose my
shortest distances but then i can extend it out and go out to you know 110 120 130 yards
the reason that my site is from 20 to 76 is when i set this up it's set up to my
specs that i entered in there i entered in that i'm at 29 and a half inches
draw length i entered in there my arrow speed which for this setup was 270 feet per second
so that helped the site calibrate and gave me my pin gaps you know from 20 out to 76 yards it'll
give me shorter than 20 but those are your basics you know distance all right so let's say you know
you're going out to your tree stand the most basic operation is you got your power button right there
i turn it on it comes up there's my shooter profile now i am ready to go with ranging all
i'm going to do is hit my trigger it gives me a range and a number and then i'm ready to go
so you can see those blinking lights so what that is is a dynamic level so i have a built-in level
on the scope right here and then in the you know surrounding my aiming dot it's going to give you
two green lights if i pitch to the right the bottom dot is going to blink if i pitch to the
left the top one so then that's just a visual representation of a level if i'm not paying
attention to my actual bubble so that's what those two lights are now as i mentioned before if i hit
the power button again now i can get my pin stack and as you see it's giving me my 20 to 70 yards
if i want to just go off fixed pins each one of those pins is a 10 yard increment from 20 to 70
yards you can see it alternates colors so it's easy to tell what's going on there settings let's
take a look at settings so if i go to settings and hit ok now i have my pins the pins what
that's showing me if i click ok ranged pin color red so when i range a target my pin color is red
if i don't if i want to go to green i've got green there i would just switch to green and then hit
the power button i like the ranged pin to be red so i'm going to go back to red now i've got my
hunt time out so that is how long does your pin stay up for before it
it clears you know it's going to auto shut off uh just to save your battery as soon as
you hit the trigger it'll start all over again but with the hunt timeout you've got 30 seconds
one minute five minutes one day i have it set on 30 seconds so that's where i'm going to leave it
but back to our main settings pins you have your brightness you go into the brightness setting and
you can make your pins brighter or quieter however you want pro settings okay so this is going to be
where you're going to go in you remember i talked about XD mode that's going to be my long distance
this is where i would activate that i also have flight apex so what is flight apex
so flight apex is going to give you a dot that will show you as you're looking through the scope
what's the highest spot that my arrow is expected to rise flight apex will give me a dot
at that point so you can see if you're shooting you know from a tree stand and there's some limbs
if you have flight apex on you can see how high that arrow's gonna go and see if those limbs you
know you're shooting a deer at 30 yards you got limbs at 15. is your arrow going to clear those
limbs flight apex will tell you that now if you're using the flight apex you can't use
the dynamic level you have to choose one or the other i prefer the dynamic level but i wanted to
tell you about that flight apex there's several other pro settings that you can go through again
we're just giving you a rundown so you can see the interface and how that works so after the pro
settings i come to my level that's where i have the dynamic level i have it turned on right now
and you saw it you can change the position of the level to high in the scope or low
standard is where it straddles your aiming dot so just to give you an idea let's run through an
arrow profile let's say i want to start over i want to set up a new arrow that i've never
shot from this bow before so i would go to arrow profile in my home menu
click ok you can see the one i already have set up i'm going to scroll forward add arrow profile
i'm going to click ok add profile new okay now i can name it i'll just call this one
profile d okay and then i can go back and hit the check mark hit okay calibrate new profile yes
it says stand at the desired range for for the first pin i'm gonna hit okay now i'm gonna
act like i'm taking a shot it says it's 20 yards away i'm gonna say use 20 yard range yes
now it tells me to take a shot so it has a pin in there for my distance of 20 yards
it says hit the bullseye i'm gonna hit yes if i hit no it would ask me to adjust you know how much
did i miss by one inches two inches and it would recalibrate that way but i did hit the bullseye
so i hit yes and now it says calibrate pin stack start okay auto calibrate using arrow speed yes
select arrow diameter i've got a standard arrow
hit ok ok enter chrono speed i already checked mine i know that it is 270 so i'm going to enter
my speed it says validate the pin stack for best results requires 40 yard shot validate pin stack
start go to the farthest range you are comfortable shooting so just for video i'm not sure how far
this is but i'll say this is the farthest i'm comfortable now it asks me to hold trigger so
i want to get on my target it tells me it's 41 yards use 41 yard range yes take a shot
okay now that time i hit low so it says hit the bullseye i'm going to hit no i missed low
inches low i'm about five inches low so i can enter that distance ranged pin adjusted
take a shot
all right that time and asked me if i hit the bullseye yes i did range is complete so
i'm going to be able to shoot out to 65 yards it told me my max range was 65. um so that's in the
standard mode again if i go to XD i can increase that but right now this is set up to where i can
shoot anywhere out to 65 yards so we just went through setting up a new arrow profile it is
really that simple the screen tells you exactly what to do you just follow the instructions
to get this thing calibrated so it is that simple now and there are many other features in there
as i said if we went through all of them we'd be here for an hour so you can learn those but
you saw how easy that interface was that's how easy it is to work with this site now another
feature we did want to tell you about uh that this site offers is it is compatible with your Garmin
GPS devices so in other words you take a shot at a deer you are able to mark that spot go to your
Garmin GPA device and it will pinpoint that location for you so i take a shot of the deer
let's say i climb down from my tree stand i want to know exactly where that deer was standing
i can check my GPA device it'll take me right to the spot that i'm marked with my rangefinder yeah
they're two separate devices but they will work together all right that is the Garmin Xero A1i pro
great new site out from the folks at Garmin this thing does everything in your bow site
that a bow hunter needs in the tree stand or the ground blind if you like this video give
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