My iPhone has 2 possible apps to process ballistic information. Knight’s “Bulletflight” or “Ballistic” by Jonathan Zdziarski. Ballistic seems to be more popular but Bulletflight may be better known.
Does anyone have experience with these? Which one would you choose and why?
Thanx guys.
I am interested in long range shooting as accurately as possible. Target shooting only.
Ballistic seems to be very popular! I have both and I use ballistic more than bulletflight simply because I can use the IPHY setting instead of MOA as my scopes adjust “Inches Per Hundred Yards”.
On the other side Bulletflight is probably every bit as accurate as Ballistic!
For the price, get both and you decide!
Thanx Sniper1. I am going to try Ballistic first as it seems much more popular and is more likely to have my bullet and weapon builtin. (Black Hills 68gr .223 and S&W M&P-15)
I use the 5.11 Tactical Field Ops Watch…It has a Sure Shot Ballistics Calculator built into the watch. From rough guesses shooting 2" groups at 800 yards with just estimating wind-speeds, and muzzle volatility…watch also has a pretty good built in digital compass.
Not my intention to thread jack, but I’ve seen the 5.11 watch in the NRA catalog and have tried to find photos of how the watch display works when displaying calculator data.
What information do you have to enter into the watch, and how does it display the results?
Thanks
For any iTouch/iPhone ballistic app. I’d recommend Ballistic FTE as well, it is GTG
I went with the “Ballistic Field Tactical Edition” by Jonathan Zdziarski. I think it cost $20. On the plus side it is the slickest piece of software I have ever used. It actually goes out and gets the local Atmospheric data, ie baro pressure, temp, humidity etc. It computes the effect of earth’s rotation on bullet flight as well as the usual drop and windage. The database of bullets and loads seems very complete to me. It’s resulting tables are useful and appear to be accurate given my 100 rounds of testing. The Head Up Display is great.
On the negative side - Although this is called the Field Tactical Edition there is a disclaimer in the “About” section stating “Not for use under duress or field combat situations”. I hope that is truly junk added by the lawyers to cover their azzes. Also there is no weapon profiles allowed. ie barrel length etc. Muzzle velocity is there but doesn’t that change for a bullet depending on the weapon. One needs to chrono each bullet thru each weapon one is using for truly accurate numbers.
I would most certainly recommend this software.
I tried to down load Knight’s Bulletflight from App Store but it was no longer available??
Exbal Software on any PDA works great. It will give you info on MOA Mils and other options. Everything you need.
R.
I purchased the same program last week. If you enter the “Trajectory” portion of the program you can select/enter your bullet data, barrel twist rate, weather conditions, muzzle velocity you chronographed, distance zeroed, sight height above the bore’s axis… and save it. Basically you can have the program calculate trajectory based off all the pertinent data you entered and saved. It will compare the atmospheric conditions at the time you zeroed to the current conditions at the time you are taking the shot and factor that in its calculations. Barrel length, type of action…are not a factors, but twist rate and muzzle velocity are.
So far I am very impressed with it. My complaints are the lack of an instruction manual and the fact it will not factor lead on a moving target. At least I do not believe it will factor lead. Hopefully someone will post that I am wrong and how to do it.
I like exball on my PC.
I use the ballistic FTE and it works great for my use.
Is twist rate the field “Rate of Twist” under Spin Drift ?? My M&P is 1:9. Does that mean 1 360deg twist in 9 inches. What do you put in for “Drift Is Zeroed”.
You’re right the software needs a manual or at least a help function that explains the fields.
I just found this manual. //ballistic.zdziarski.com/
I really like FieldCraft but it doesn’t have an iphone version available yet - supposed to in the near future
+1.
Just go to the iTunes store and read the reviews and then go to the website for more details if you need to. This is the best $20 I’ve spent in a while.
I’ve read that many serious long range shooters went out an bought an iTouch just to use this software.
Better to get an iPhone rather than an iTouch. iTouch can only use local wifi to get atmospheric data. Most ranges and won’t have wifi. Certainly no remote locations. an iPhone can get weather data most anywhere a cell phone will work.
Anyody try the Knight’s version ??
If you don’t want to load an application you can use the online calculators here -
http://www.jbmballistics.com/calculations/calculations.shtml
They’re complete and accurate.
Under the covers Ballistic appears to use the JBM algorithm. I like doing the calculations right at the range bench(or hide) on my iPhone rather than carrying a pocket full of cards or a laptop.
Anybody out there have experience with Knight’s Bulletflight??
I understand. Just a thought…