This will be a long post but here is the background,
Was using a Kestrel 5500ag and AB mobile app and now purchased the sportsman and upgraded to elite.
1, is there a way to tell or know which bullet you are using in the kestrel other than label it in the gun profile??
I assume the answer is no, but here is why I ask. In mobile you can add multiple bullets per gun so I have only ever used 140eldm bullets in factory and now handloading and had a profile for each. When you go into mobile you select gun, then bullet and carry on..
When I set up the kestrel in the ballistic app I selected the 140eldm from the library (did not use any of the () ones), and used custom curve as it was accurate for me in mobile. Dope seemed to reasonably match mobile so I go to a match to use it and I can't hit squat at distance. I get home and shoot a know target at distance and my kestrel dope is off so I say heck with the custom and switch it to the g7 profile and it gives me a bc of .243....i say that seems awfully low for the eldm and I have to raise it to over .300 to get my data to line up. So I go my other gun and its exactly the same with a .243 g7bc and that dope is off. I then go into the link app and pull the 140eldm bullet from the library but this time i use g7 instead of the custom and it gives me a bc of .291 so I don't know how but somehow some where I got a different curve and bc bullet loaded in the kestrel for 2 seperate guns as it still shows a .264 140 gr with a g7 of .243 and I have no idea what bullet that might be....
Which leads me to also ask, if there is no way to know which bullet is being used in the kestrel is there a way to lock the bullet info?? Because using the bc I've notice that once I've adjusted my g7 bc to say .300 from .291 and I accidentally bump from g7 to custom and back to g7 it puts the bc back to .291 and I've lost my trying bc...
Thanks
Was using a Kestrel 5500ag and AB mobile app and now purchased the sportsman and upgraded to elite.
1, is there a way to tell or know which bullet you are using in the kestrel other than label it in the gun profile??
I assume the answer is no, but here is why I ask. In mobile you can add multiple bullets per gun so I have only ever used 140eldm bullets in factory and now handloading and had a profile for each. When you go into mobile you select gun, then bullet and carry on..
When I set up the kestrel in the ballistic app I selected the 140eldm from the library (did not use any of the () ones), and used custom curve as it was accurate for me in mobile. Dope seemed to reasonably match mobile so I go to a match to use it and I can't hit squat at distance. I get home and shoot a know target at distance and my kestrel dope is off so I say heck with the custom and switch it to the g7 profile and it gives me a bc of .243....i say that seems awfully low for the eldm and I have to raise it to over .300 to get my data to line up. So I go my other gun and its exactly the same with a .243 g7bc and that dope is off. I then go into the link app and pull the 140eldm bullet from the library but this time i use g7 instead of the custom and it gives me a bc of .291 so I don't know how but somehow some where I got a different curve and bc bullet loaded in the kestrel for 2 seperate guns as it still shows a .264 140 gr with a g7 of .243 and I have no idea what bullet that might be....
Which leads me to also ask, if there is no way to know which bullet is being used in the kestrel is there a way to lock the bullet info?? Because using the bc I've notice that once I've adjusted my g7 bc to say .300 from .291 and I accidentally bump from g7 to custom and back to g7 it puts the bc back to .291 and I've lost my trying bc...
Thanks
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