Applied Ballistics PDM

[ChickNorris]

Thought I'd share the info from Applied Ballistics mobile lab's personal drag model for my factory setup. It was a real treat to do the test with all their fancy equipment at the Nightforce ELR Steel Challenge last week. They had me shoot 10 rounds @ a very specific point on the horizon @ specific intervals while the radar & gizmos measured everything. The handwritten number is the g1 conversion - guess I was curious for context as that's the model I used to use & wanted to see the numbers for both when I went back through both profiles to see the differences after 500yds & so on. Fun stuff.

Im glad that when I bought my Bergara I bought enough of the ammo lot to shoot for the estimated barrel life. Wanted to run the same setup throughout for a couple reasons - to be as consistent as possible & secondly so that when I do try new later that I had less variables in my experience, for reasonable comparisons.

Anyway, guess my point was that it's not too shabby for factory ammo. Lucky lot maybe.

Thoughts?

[beast556]

Thats pretty cool, did they charge you to do that or were they showing off there equipment?

[ChickNorris]

It was free. They came up special to do it for anyone at the match. Did 94 pdms that day for various competitors.

As a side note worth mentioning, Bryan Litz won the match.

[ChickNorris]

Oh, what was interesting too is the base numbers weren't more than a few off from the data I had previously recorded from a labradar. It was nice to see that I had been working with accurate #s.

[eddiememphis]

I listened to a podcast with those guys last week. Very interesting, very smart guys.

What do you do with that information?

[Tim K]

Did they give the results only as a G7 BC, or did you get access to some sort of digital version that you can load into a kestrel?

[ChickNorris]

I was told I can go online & retrieve the info & transfer it to the profile in my kestrel, yes.

I have an older model kestrel that I bought used (with link) but Im not familiar with the process of pairing my phone & am going to need to learn if its compatible with mine & how to & if so, how limited (or not) the benefit might be without the newest software.

A 5700 elite is on my wish list but up until now, the older model seemed adequate so I hadn't made it a priority. Unfortunately Im strapped now with some unexpected household expenses so Idk when I'll be able to upgrade.

I believe I have the option to do it all on my phone too but need to look into it. I don't like to take my phone to matches because Ive broken the screen twice when I have. Also think Id need to buy the app.

[Delfuego]

A buddy won a 5700 last week in a match. PM me if your interested.