Kestrel 4500 Horus (Ballistics) User Manual download pdf (Page 4)

• To name your gun, scroll up to highlight “Gun” and

press .

• You will see a cursor appear under the rst letter of

New Gun. Use the and buttons to

scroll through the alphabet and numbers 0-9 and

several symbols. Pressing inserts a space

between characters. You can choose between

upper and lowercase letters.

• Once you’re on the desired letter, use to move the

cursor to the next space in the gun name. Continue

until the gun name is complete.

• When gun name is complete, press button to

save. (Gun will also automatically save upon exiting

screen.)

• Press to will exit from the current screen.

Gun Library

There is room in the Kestrel for up to 50 library guns. Several

library guns are pre-programmed in each Kestrel, but this can

be modied by building a new gun library on a computer

using the Horus Gun Library software, and downloading the

new gun library to the Kestrel (either via Bluetooth connec-

tion or the Kestrel wired interface). Downloading a new gun

library will automatically overwrite the previous library guns

in the Kestrel (but not any user-created guns).

GUN INFORMATION SCREEN

Once you have selected your gun. You’re now ready to enter

or modify all relevant parameters pertaining to the set-up

GUN New Gun

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of your rie. These parameters include muzzle velocity,

ballistic coecient, bullet weight, bullet diameter, zero

range, bore height, rie twist, rie twist direction, and sight

adjustment (click).

• On the Gun Information screen, press up or down to

highlight the gun parameters.

• Use



and to adjust the value.

• Press to enter the highlighted parameter’s

screen. Here you are also able to adjust the

parameter’s value as well as the unit of measure.

(For example, meters per second to feet per second.)

• On the Gun Information screen, you also have the

option to delete the gun by highlighting “Delete this

Gun” and pressing the button.

• Press to exit to Main Horus screen once all values

are correct.

See below for more information on Muzzle Velocity and

Ballistic Coecient.

Muzzle Velocity

• Use and to highlight “MV”.

• Press to enter MV screen.

• Use



and to adjust the value.

Notes on Muzzle Velocity

• When a bullet is in the transonic range, a small dot

will appear to the left of the muzzle velocity value

(gure 1).

• When a bullet is in the subsonic range a larger dot

will appear to the left of the muzzle velocity value.

(gure 2)

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