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Kestrel Ballistics 5 Series Manuals, Downloads, and Troubleshooting Documents

Kestrel Ballistics 5 Series Instruction Manuals

How to Get Started with your Kestrel Ballistics Unit (Size: 184.7 KB)

A 10 step guide to setup your Kestrel to work with your gun.

Kestrel 5700 Easy Mode Start Guide (Size: 2.5 MB)

User Guide Kestrel 5700 Ballistics Weather Meter and Kestrel 5700/5700X Elite Weather Meters with Applied Ballistics (Also 5700 Sportsman Instructions) (Size: 795.1 KB)

Kestrel 5700 Ballistics Weather Meter and Kestrel Elite/5700X Weather Meters with Applied Ballistics User Guide

Kestrel Ballistics 5 Series Downloads

Changing Direction of Fire and have Wind Direction Change (Size: 147.6 KB)

This tutorial will show you how you can now change DOF and have your Wind Direction change. This setting can be found in all 5700s with firmware version 1.41 (or higher).

Chart of Accuracies for Bullet Trajectory (Size: 321.6 KB)

Using WEZ Analysis to Increase Long-range P(hit) (Size: 415.2 KB)

sources of inaccuracy in long-range shooting

What is Maximum Point Blank Range? (Size: 287.4 KB)

Firmware 1.35 add maximum point blank range for the Kestrel 5700 Elite models, this document explains what exactly this feature does.

Kestrel Ballistics 5 Series Troubleshooting Documents

How to calibrate a 22 Long Rifle using a Kestrel Elite (Size: 134.7 KB)

This document shows how to calibrate using CalMV and CAL DSF a 22 Long Rifle or other guns which do not shoot supersonic region.

How to transfer gun profiles from 4500 series to 5700 series (Size: 582.3 KB)

How to transfer gun profiles from 4500 series to 5700 series

Sight Scale Factor - For Scope Corrections (Size: 156.9 KB)

Here is a tutorial on entering Sight Scale Factor (SSF) also known as a scope correction factor into the Kestrel.

Kestrel 5 Series Certificates of Comformity

Certificate of Conformity Kestrel 5 Series Weather / Environmental Meters (Size: 528.9 KB)

Kestrel 5 Series specification chart

Certificate of Conformity Kestrel 5400 Heat Stress Tracker (Size: 528.5 KB)

Kestrel 5400 Heat Stress Tracker specification chart

Factory Calibration Temp Example (Size: 651.2 KB)

Example of the paperwork after performing a Kestrel Temperature Factory Calibration (not NIST)

Kestrel Tune Up Example (Size: 121.2 KB)

Example of the paperwork received when doing a Kestrel Tune-Up

NK Kestrel 5000 Series EMC Declaration of Conformity (Size: 48.3 KB)

Sample NIST Certification Air Speed / Wind (Size: 440.4 KB)

Shows a sample of the paperwork when doing a NIST Wind calibration on a Kestrel

Sample NIST Certification Globe Temperature (Size: 436.4 KB)

Shows a sample of the paperwork when doing a NIST Globe Temperature calibration on a Kestrel

Sample NIST Certification Pressure (Size: 438.8 KB)

Shows a sample of the paperwork when doing a NIST Pressure calibration on a Kestrel

Sample NIST Certification Relative Humidity (Size: 509.7 KB)

Shows a sample of the paperwork when doing a NIST Humidity calibration on a Kestrel

Sample NIST Certification Temperature (Size: 438.2 KB)

Shows a sample of the paperwork when doing a NIST Temperature calibration on Kestrel

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