mikefestes
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You cant input your exact ballistics into the Leica, you get to choose from the 2 or 3 that are close to your set-up. Go to youtube and the Leica rep will tell you how it works.
For the MIL guys.
The G7 is setup to run MOA or BDC. If you print out a drop chart in mils for your rifles data you can use the G7 for mils. Input your muzzle velocity and bc into the unit. Then use the BDC feature. Laze the target and the G7 will dope the conditions and give you a "BDC Shoot to" yardage. Look at your drop chart and dial in mils to your "Shoot to" distance.
Example: I have my drop chart in MIL's printed out and stuck to my stock. I am in 6,000ft elevation hunting. I see a buck, using the BDC setting on the G7 i laze the buck and it says 1,000yds, then a second later it gives me the compensated distance for MY specific ballistics (a huge feature over any other rangefinder) of 875yds. I look at my MIL drop chart and dial for 875yds.
Fast and easy. And i still get to leave the Kestrel and PDA at home. Too many guys get hung up over forms of measurement which is all MIL, MOA, or BDC is, an arbitrary numerical value assigned to an angle of measurement.
The only downside i see for the MIL guys is having to keep a drop chart with you, but honestly most of us do that anyway (tape it to the side of your stock). And it would still be faster than inputing your information manually into a PDA.
I am an MOA shooter by preference but if i owned a MIL setup i would not hesitate to rock the G7!
Had a couple guys mention this and I don't disagree, it is just that if I am going to buy a $1600 rangefinder I would like it to work as designed and be as quick as possible. That is part of the benefit of this system, that it gives a very fast solution. Having to add a chart to the mix is moving in the wrong direction IMO.
Like, you said, it is an option though.
Scot E.
True.
I wanted to wait for someone to come out with it in a binocular but the group buy swayed me. I guess im not as patient as you.
So lets say you have a turret set at 2000 feet elevation,dead on... and you are hunting high country at 8000 foot elevation, the g7 adjusts for that...That is a ton better then swapping knobs before every hunt....WOWit seems to be dead on, as long as all the information on your gun is correctly entered, but thats a given. I really like that ay different eleavations I dont need a second or third turret, the G7 eliminates all that.
So lets say you have a turret set at 2000 feet elevation,dead on... and you are hunting high country at 8000 foot elevation, the g7 adjusts for that...That is a ton better then swapping knobs before every hunt....WOW
Is this available in metric and mil?