Video Transcript
There are tons of laser rangefinders on the market, particularly little handheld monoculars, and the Sig Kilo 4K is one of the best out there based on the features it provides. So it arrives in this bag. You will see there are stickers on the outside saying BDX 2.0. Sig is very, very happy about that because BDX is their ballistic calculation software that can bluetooth to a device such as your iPhone or Android device so you can move over profiles onto the device for a ballistic solution.
You are going to have a little quick start guide. This is going to tell you how to bond the device to your phone. I highly recommend consulting this as you are linking it to your Android or Apple device. And I do recommend you download the free Sig BDX software so you can get the full value out of this particular device. So quick start guide, very important. It comes with ACR123. Now this is one of the reasons we selected this product over all of the different little handheld rangefinders out there and it's that it uses a standard battery. So many laser rangefinders such as this one, this form factor, use all sorts of other weird kinds of batteries. We wanted something that was much more common because if you are running around on the range with various weapon lights on your rifles, pistol lights, lasers and other devices, most of them are running CR123s. So having another device on your equipment that uses the same batteries just makes a lot of sense.
So here's the rangefinder like so. It has no lanyard on there but it does include one. Also includes a carrying case which odds are none of us are going to use. There's also another little guide. This little guide is actually interesting because it gives you some rough velocity data you can throw into your ballistic app. If you don't know exactly what muscle velocity of the type of ammunition you are shooting, you could go off of this to get something rough. So that's kind of cool that they include this. It won't be super accurate but it's not bad. It's kind of nice.
And definitely want to use this because I can tether this to my equipment. I can wear it around my neck. I highly recommend you go ahead and attach it. So they include a little piece of tape which is convenient. It's actually very smart. Slip it through there. Grab it. Pull. Double it back through. Boom. You're done. It also has a little tightener slash loosener thingy. I don't know what these are called. But yeah, so you can throw it around your neck or tether it off to your equipment. So you're going to lift up on the little tab and you're going to twist.
On the inside of the device they have a little diagram showing which way the battery should go so if you are confused and you don't want to do the whole 50-50, not sure which way to do it. It's going to be positive side facing out. Cap goes back on. Shut it. And we are good to start lasing. Now on the device itself they do have a diopter adjuster. Diopter adjustment. So definitely play with that.
I'm not going to bother trying to explain how to change all the settings inside of this. SIG has some very good little quick start guides on here. But this device is going to tell you inclination of angle. So if I am trying to lase something up on a hill or something it's going to give me some degrees. It's going to give me the distance. I can toggle between meters or yards. It is very important that you pick one and probably stick with it. But the other thing this device can do is it can actually give you a ballistic solution. So once you load in a profile from your phone, because you are not going to build one on here.
When you move the profile over say this LaRue rifle shooting .308 out of this particular barrel. Let's say it's 2480 feet per second. The twist rates, whatever this happens to be. Build all that on the phone. Transfer it over. If I laze while training with this rifle it's going to tell me exactly what I need to do. So it's a cost effective way of having a ballistic solver that's very easy access to the rifle. I can pull this out of my kit, laze. It tells me 3.2. Get back on the rifle. Hold 32 or dial 32.
It's just a very good process and it can be very efficient. Now as far as carrying the rangefinder there's a couple things. This is the width of a 7.62 magazine. So if you have mag pouches, flapped or multipurpose made for DMR magazines it will fit in there just fine. It will slip all the way down to the bottom but that's where I have this guy. I can literally pull it out of the pouch fairly easily. Do my stuff. The other way that I like to use it is in an accessory pouch here on the right side. This is a big spiritus six row thing. I have my Kestrel in there. I've got my usually my quarterback sleeve and some other stuff. I can chuck that in there and have all my range finding equipment if I'm just training with a standard SPR or bolt gun without a fancy LRF. I have that on me or on my kit more or less at all times because you never know when you need to range things or do a little bit of observation because this device is very usable and useful for that. But as far as devices go for the price point and the features that this offers this is definitely one of the best out there.
I can do observation with this. I can obviously get a ballistic calculation for my rifle and see what's going on and it doesn't break the bank too badly. If you have any other questions about this particular device and its compatibility with software or how to use it go and email us at team@trex-arms.com.