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Trijicon has been showing off their powerful, handheld electronic spotting scopes and rangefinders. Called the Trijicon Ventus and Ventus X, the upcoming spotting scopes can do more than just estimate the distance to the target, they can help analyze wind speeds and more to calculate the best possible shooting solution.
Using Doppler LIDAR with four laser emitters the Ventus will provide shooting solutions to 500 yards and longer under the right conditions and range-find targets out to 5,000 yards. The Ventus X adds smart spotting scope functionality that can pair with a smartphone to display additional metrics when sighting in targets.
The Doppler engine can measure headwind, tailwind, crosswind and vertical wind components at six different distances in front of the user, in any weather conditions. This generates a three-dimensional model wind velocities in front of the shooter and above the line of sight all along the bullet’s flight path to provide the shooter with a shot-specific shooting solution.
The Ventus X uses a suite of sensors onboard to captures all necessary data including range, wind, atmospheric temperature, stratospheric pressure, and incline angle to provide improved first-round-hit probability to hunters using the system.
Using Bluetooth The Ventus X can also pair with Trijicon’s ballistic calculator app. This app provides the user with expanded capabilities such as geolocation, wind maps, range tables and reticle holdover views not programmed into or generated by the Ventus X spotting scope itself.
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Pairing the scope with a phone or other compatible device lets the shooter save up to 1,000 different profiles with different shooting parameters for use with different rifles, ammunition and everything else.
When using the Ventus or Ventus X as a standalone spotting they work as optics with fixed 9x magnification with standard diopter adjustments for different users. Both run on two rechargeable 18650 power cells.
Trijicon says the Ventus and Ventus X will be available in the second half of 2020, which means hunters will likely be able to test the Ventus under real-world shooting conditions soon. The one catch is that this much tech in this small of a package will fetch a price premium, on par with Trijicon’s night vision hardware ($8,000-10,000).
To learn more about this game-changing tech visit Trijicon.com.