slv hunter
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Does anyone know anything about the new trijicon? It's a doppler that reads wind to 500 yds and is also range finder. Like to hear if anyone has had the chance to try one.
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New Trijicon Vantus and Vantus X
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slv hunter
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Sorry misspelled should be trijicon ventus. These seem like it could change long range hunting / shooting in a big way.
dfanonymous
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Just what I heard about it from dudes at shot and a post on here. Personally I don't see the price being justifiable to get a wind call to 500y. The problems don't start until past 600 or more.
slv hunter
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I think like everything else in a year or so there will be a gen2 that will read to 1000 . Thanks for the response yesterday was the first I have heard about it.
LRNut
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I am not so sure you will see a Gen 2 come out so fast. The company that fielded this technology created the first hand held device; it can go to 1000 yards, but weighs 16 lbs and costs $90,000 - and it was first built 10 years ago.
Look at laser rangefinders: the original Leica Geovid came out in 1993 (I was the first person in the US to buy one). Bushnell came out with LRs but really, it was a very long time before anything could touch the original Geovid, and even longer before its maximum range was doubled.
As for the 500 yard limit, I would agree wind to 500 is generally not a problem; at that range, trying to hit a ten inch pie plate is not difficult; your group is small - hopefully 1/2 MOA - leaving you with 2.5 inches of wind error. At longer ranges, the group is larger, shrinking the allowable wind error, but compounded by the fact an error of 1 mph has a bigger impact at 1000 than it does at 500. But knowing the wind out to 500, and then using that to extrapolate to 1000 and beyond, is going to be huge.
I am going to buy one.
Look at laser rangefinders: the original Leica Geovid came out in 1993 (I was the first person in the US to buy one). Bushnell came out with LRs but really, it was a very long time before anything could touch the original Geovid, and even longer before its maximum range was doubled.
As for the 500 yard limit, I would agree wind to 500 is generally not a problem; at that range, trying to hit a ten inch pie plate is not difficult; your group is small - hopefully 1/2 MOA - leaving you with 2.5 inches of wind error. At longer ranges, the group is larger, shrinking the allowable wind error, but compounded by the fact an error of 1 mph has a bigger impact at 1000 than it does at 500. But knowing the wind out to 500, and then using that to extrapolate to 1000 and beyond, is going to be huge.
I am going to buy one.
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