You don't "Need" a tablet. The kestrel works as a stand alone system just fine. You also don't need a pc. Just to clarify. Kestrel however does have PC Software for the applied ballistic model that allows you to build and load weapon profiles. Inside the kestrel you have weapon profiles. You select the profile you are using it it loads in your data. You can build these profiles in different ways. One way is to do it on PC with the Applied Ballistics Profile Loader. http://www.r-p-r.co.uk/downloads/kestrel/Applied_Ballistics_Profile_Loader_Instructions.pdf then transfer it via Bluetooth. The other way is build them by hand inside of the kestrel. Look here starting on page 10 http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0084/9012/t/1/assets/Applied_Ballistics_Instrucstions.pdf The third way is through the tablet, where you build the profiles for the weapon and the ammo on the tablet. No matter which way you choose to do it, you must build a weapon and ammo profile, their are preconfigured profiles in the kestrel but you will still need to go through them and double check all the information on each one.
I didn't mean to be confusing you don't need the tablet at all. However. A tablet makes your life a lot easier. If your building them with just the kestrel and no pc, you have to do it by hand slowly. You can do it with a pc or laptop, but I highly recommend the Bluetooth model for this as it makes it much easier. If you do it with a tablet you do everything inside of the tablet (just to be clear its just as good on the phone as a tablet, im using a tablet as a generalization for android). Hopefully this doesn't confuse you any worse for wear. You don't need a tablet or a pc or anything but the kestrel. I'm just making suggestions as to make your life easier. The kestrel AB Profile Loader comes with all the custom bullet curves, and that comes with the kestrel as part of your purchase. The android version of AB, unless you buy AB Tactical, comes with the standard curves, and custom curves cost 2$ a piece.
Edit I forgot to add, the reason the tablet or phone I feel is so much better as well. Is because you can set and forget the kestrel. You can set it on the wind vane mount, and get all your data live on your tablet, or phone. So you don't have to mess with the kestrel anymore, and you don't have to deal with reading the screen, or making certain its in the wind correctly. You can just get all your adjustments remotely. This only works on the Bluetooth model though.
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