I had the chance yesterday to set up and test a new Leica 2700B for my father.
The good:
The laser is really good (better than my Swaro EL range binoculars). - I was able to range targets (trees, grass, rocks, rocks in shadows) on the sides of mountains in bright daylight in the clear UT mountain air out to 1867 yards - the farthest available objects within the 2,700 yard limits. When it didn't work I was trying to range items on the next mountain over, otherwise, it just worked and worked well.
The Ballistic capability is also nice once you figure out how to input your ballistic data. The unit comes with 12 pre loaded ballistic curves. If one of those is not close enough to your gun/ammo combination, you can use Leica's website to generate custom data for your rifle and download it to a micro SD card that you then insert into the unit. The 2700B will use this data as a baseline and then adjust the output based on its readings of atmospherics and up/down shot angle. This worked reasonably well and reported numbers that were within 0.05 - 0.1 mils of the numbers reported by the Shooter App on an iPhone inside of 600 yards. The numbers started to diverge more beyond 600 to a maxium of 0.4 difference at 1,000 yards - the limit for displaying ballistic information. This is due to the ballistics App that Leica uses to generate your custom drop data. It is not as sophisticated as other common ballistic programs. We could have gone back and attempted to better true the data but that is a cumbersome process.
The unit is light and compact. Its also supposed to be waterproof (did not test this).
The not as good:
The process of generating your own ballistic curve is clunky
The ballistic calculator is not as sophisticated as other ballistic calculators out there
You only get one custom curve per micro SD card so you either have one custom curve period or are carrying around a bunch of micro SD cards
For "safety" reasons the unit does not report elevation beyond 1,000 yards and artificially limits the ballistic information beyond this range
Conclusion:
This is a great solution for long range hunting (inside 1,000 yards) or for just ranging objects out past 1,800 yards. The laser is powerful, fast and works every time. The unit is small and compact and using the ballistic feature is good enough to get you hits in the vitals out to 7-800 yards. The artificial 1,000 yard limit on ballistic data, and the rudimentary ballistic calculator limit its use for long range precision steel work - unless you just use the 2700B for ranging targets. In range-only usage for steel it works very well.
YMMV ... good luck!
The good:
The laser is really good (better than my Swaro EL range binoculars). - I was able to range targets (trees, grass, rocks, rocks in shadows) on the sides of mountains in bright daylight in the clear UT mountain air out to 1867 yards - the farthest available objects within the 2,700 yard limits. When it didn't work I was trying to range items on the next mountain over, otherwise, it just worked and worked well.
The Ballistic capability is also nice once you figure out how to input your ballistic data. The unit comes with 12 pre loaded ballistic curves. If one of those is not close enough to your gun/ammo combination, you can use Leica's website to generate custom data for your rifle and download it to a micro SD card that you then insert into the unit. The 2700B will use this data as a baseline and then adjust the output based on its readings of atmospherics and up/down shot angle. This worked reasonably well and reported numbers that were within 0.05 - 0.1 mils of the numbers reported by the Shooter App on an iPhone inside of 600 yards. The numbers started to diverge more beyond 600 to a maxium of 0.4 difference at 1,000 yards - the limit for displaying ballistic information. This is due to the ballistics App that Leica uses to generate your custom drop data. It is not as sophisticated as other common ballistic programs. We could have gone back and attempted to better true the data but that is a cumbersome process.
The unit is light and compact. Its also supposed to be waterproof (did not test this).
The not as good:
The process of generating your own ballistic curve is clunky
The ballistic calculator is not as sophisticated as other ballistic calculators out there
You only get one custom curve per micro SD card so you either have one custom curve period or are carrying around a bunch of micro SD cards
For "safety" reasons the unit does not report elevation beyond 1,000 yards and artificially limits the ballistic information beyond this range
Conclusion:
This is a great solution for long range hunting (inside 1,000 yards) or for just ranging objects out past 1,800 yards. The laser is powerful, fast and works every time. The unit is small and compact and using the ballistic feature is good enough to get you hits in the vitals out to 7-800 yards. The artificial 1,000 yard limit on ballistic data, and the rudimentary ballistic calculator limit its use for long range precision steel work - unless you just use the 2700B for ranging targets. In range-only usage for steel it works very well.
YMMV ... good luck!
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