hey guys dan Turvey here with the Eastmans' gear lab and for any of you
that have followed our YouTube videos or read the articles in magazine you know
that I'm somewhat of a rifle junkie and today we've got a really cool product
which is the cig kilo 2400 abs this system will range a target from here to
Indiana I mean that might be a little bit of an exaggeration but it is one of
the most powerful range finders on the market and we're going to take a look at
some of the reasons why so the engine that drives this rangefinder is light
wave DSP TM technology and in the world of range finders you can't have enough
horsepower by that I mean the more power you have the greater distance at which
you will be able to range non-reflective targets and game animals are considered
a less reflective target for example this range finder will pick up the side
of a building at 3,400 yards a deer at about 1,300 that outpaces most
competitors in this market so all that horsepower in a rangefinder doesn't do
you any good unless you can see and range what it is you're looking at and
as your distances stretch out your targets get closer together and so the
7x power of this rangefinder gives you good target separation at great
distances to be able to accurately measure the distance to the exact target
that you want
we're going to take a couple ranges here we've got a big bentonite hill over here
that's got multiple materials on it we've got clay and rock and the
reflectivity of those particular materials plays a huge factor in the
readings you get back so we'll get into this here we'll take a look and see what
we can find so if you look at the top of that hill there there's a rock band
rocks are typically highly reflective and I'm getting a reading back up 2192
on the rock we move down to the bentonite it tends to soak up that laser
a little bit more than that rock and it can be a little bit more difficult to
find so that's a good tip if you're trying to range in at hillsides you have
some animals on you really need to take in consideration what makes up that
material we'll see if we can get a reading here we should be able to become
a little bit further down the hill and we're looking at 1835 and so 2,200 yards
I mean that's a poke there's one thousand seven hundred and sixty yards
in a mile so we're well over a mile right there what separates this model in
the sig line from their other range finders is this is essentially a
handheld computer the applied ballistic systems and the software and algorithms
that go into this little unit right here that's literally the size of my hand are
so advanced it's incredibly hard to explain we need to make sure that you
read the manual you go online and you download the app that comes with this
system that's the next cool thing there's an app you can download to your
smartphone with a wind meter that calculates for wind bullet drop
temperature atmospheric pressure to the Coriolis effect I mean the capabilities
of this system are unparalleled it's one of the best that I've ever held another
really cool thing about this rangefinder is there's three different settings
there's the angle setting there's a line-of-sight setting and then there's a
full ballistic holdover what that means is as your shot increases or decreases
in angle the reading that you get back on the display will give you a shoot
to distance there's also line-of-sight which is
exactly that what you're looking at it doesn't compensate for the angle of the
shot and then there's full ballistic holdover which based on your rifles
particular ballistics will give you a holdover distance in mils or MOA as we
all know hunting out west lighting conditions vary wildly from really
bright days like we have today to really dark timber scenarios the O LED display
in here has a sensor in the optical end that will automatically compensate for
lighting conditions around you so when you look through there in a low light
situation at last light when that big bull steps out your vision isn't going
to be blown out by it incredibly bright display so that's a really cool feature
that I like about this so not only is this one of the best range finders on
the market sig has also put together a really cool package for this product so
when you buy it it's complete ready to go there's batteries there's a
smartphone pen in there so you can punch in your calculations you don't have to
use your finger it's got another side to it where you can take range notes so
it's a neat pen and a tripod adapter as you start reaching out really great
distances obviously when we're talking you know over a mile maybe two here
you're going to need that stability to precisely range of any target but it
also works really great handheld there's enough power here where you can reach
out and I've range targets at eighteen nineteen hundred yards just using my
hand if you're in the market for a rangefinder to hunt out west or for long
distance shooting you really need to give the sig 2400 abs
a look thanks for joining me on this week's to your lab and for more great
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