Kestrel 5700X WEZ with CDF Weather Meter with Applied Ballistics

$999.00
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SKU
0857XWL

Kestrel 5700X WEZ is equipped with the powerful AB Elite solver and WEZ analysis. AB’s WEZ gives the user the ability to guide decisions on weapon systems, ammo and shooting skills to maximize their hit percentage. Shooters can determine what matters and optimize their hit percentage.

The Kestrel 5700X WEZ now integrates Applied Ballistics’ Custom Drag Factor (CDF), a powerful micro-adjustment tool that improves real-world ballistic accuracy. CDF allows shooters to apply a custom scaling factor to the drag curve, fine-tuning ballistic solutions beyond standard profiles. By accounting for subtle, hard-to-measure variables such as bullet lot variation and environmental conditions, CDF increases solution predictability and confidence, helping shooters achieve more consistent hits at distance.

Introducing the Kestrel 5700X WEZ

Kestrel Ballistics WEZ with CDF logo

Applied Ballistics' Custom Drag Factor (CDF) is a highly specialized, micro-adjustment feature designed to significantly enhance the predictability and accuracy of your Kestrel’s ballistic solution.

What It Does

CDF allows users to fine-tune the core ballistic calculations by applying a custom scaling factor to your drag curve, effectively compensating for specific, non-standard variables that exist in the real world but are difficult to measure traditionally.

Key Benefits & Use Cases

  • Precision Truing: It functions as a powerful tool for “truing” the device to your specific rifle/ammunition combination, providing a superior level of custom calibration beyond simple velocity input.
  • Increased Predictability: By integrating CDF, the device’s output (such as range and holdover solutions) will more closely match actual, real-world bullet flight performance, especially across different ranges.
  • Compensation for Equipment Wear: The most critical application is compensating for wear-and-tear on your equipment.
    • Example: Subtle changes due to wear can subtly change a projectile’s flight characteristics in ways that cannot be adjusted on a traditional AB custom curve. Using CDF, the ballistic solution can be trued to accommodate new data and compensate for changes to the drag curve, without having to revert to a G1 or G7 drag model.

CDF, by Applied Ballistics, ensures that the ballistic computer is perfectly tailored to the unique characteristics of your exact shooting system, increasing confidence in every shot.

Kestrel 5700X WEZ Specifications

  • Applied Ballistics Elite Solver: WEZ functionality, AB G1/G7/Custom Curve Drag Models, Aerodynamic Jump & Spin Drift Corrections
  • Durability: MIL-STD-810G drop-tested, IP67 waterproof
  • Wireless Communication: LiNK (Bluetooth Low Energy)
  • Sensors: Pressure, Relative Humidity, Temperature, Digital Compass
  • High-Contrast Display: Sunlight-readable with standard and night vision backlight options
  • Performance Calibration: Muzzle Velocity Calibration, MV-Temp Table, Zero Offset
  • Storage: Up to 30 Gun/Bullet Profiles and 10 Targets
  • Ease of Use: Intuitive keypad and multilingual menus (English, French, Spanish, German)
  • Additional Tools: Range card, Target Range Estimator, Subsonic Drop Calibration, and more.

Kestrel Ballistics 5 Series Troubleshooting Documents

This document goes over the various new menu items found in the Kestrel 5700X WEZ units

Kestrel Ballistics 5 Series Downloads

A brief tutorial on how to use the new CDF feature

sources of inaccuracy in long-range shooting

This is a white paper from Applied Ballistics that gives an overview of WEZ

Kestrel Ballistics 5 Series Instruction Manuals

Some initial guidance on the new WEZ features not found in the 5700 manual.

Product Questions

Essentially WEZ gives you the ability to toggle the uncertainties throughout the firing solution to adjust your probability of making the hit on your target. For instance will the 0.308 bullet with a slightly larger muzzle velocity deviation be better at this range than your 6.5 with a tighter spread. Or toggle the wind speed variance because you are unsure whether it is 4 mph or 8 mph. What difference will that make with the shot? Here are some additional resources from Applied Ballistics that help explain this concept a little better:

sources of inaccuracy in long-range shooting

This is a white paper from Applied Ballistics that gives an overview of WEZ

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Please see the guidance shown here:

This document goes over the various new menu items found in the Kestrel 5700X WEZ units

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Please see the guidance shown here:

A brief tutorial on how to use the new CDF feature

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