Reviews on the new SIG BDX3000

[Justin B]

Anyone have any time on the new Sig3000 BDX Rangefinding Bino's???

 

[xswanted]

Anyone have any time on the new Sig3000 BDX Rangefinding Bino's???

I bought a pair.

Here’s my situation with rangfinders.....I worked in the outdoor industry for roughly 10 years. I had the opportunity to play with and try, in field conditions most of the common rangefinders and binoculars one would find st their local Cabelas.

My personal use for them is on coyotes in the winter across snow. I live in eastern ND where it’s flat. Flat like I live out in the country and the only two hills within miles and miles of my house are both man made, my shooting backstop and a coulee diversion.

When it’s covered in snow here, it’s cold and one is trying to range a coyote across the snow, most rangefinders don’t work so well.

So my goal has been to find one that does. I have not used anything from Vectronix so I can’t comment on them, however the only range finder, up until now, that will accurately read across flat country covered insnow, while the unit is cold was the G7 from Gunwerks, and it’s gotten me many coyotes at extended ranges over the years I’ve owned it.

So...I wanted binos, a rangefinder that might work across snow and a ballistics calculator all in one. Enter the Sig 3000.

I got them just as our snow was disappearing here. So far they’ve done everything I’ve wanted them to do.

I haven’t had an opportunity to use them in subzero weather so I’m still a bit skeptical as my Sig 2200 doesn’t work well when the unit is cold.

I’ve had a maximum range so far of 4797 yards which was read from atop one of the two hills I can get too and reading a house across a couple sections. The sun was behind me and it was early evening. Quite a bit of mirage. Pretty impressive really.

It will pick up trees easily at 2000-2600 yards.

I’ve read cows instantly at 1000-1600 yards, the G7 will not read cows at that distance.

Glass in the binos isn’t anything to brag about. It’s good and has good edge to edge clarity but I own a pair of Leica Trinovid 8x42s and Leica 10x42 Geovids and there is no comparison in brightness, clarity and over all image quantity. Eye relief is good, I’ve been running the way cups all the way and then backed out one notch so far. It seems to work pretty good. My dad wears glasses and can use the binos with the eye cups all the way in, with his glasses on.

The have a diopter focus on each eye. I personally don’t care for that but the option is there.

The display for the rangefinder is bright and crisp and easy to read. Menus are easy to change and read.

I synced these up to the app on my phone that you download for free and they will give me ballistic corrections out to 800 yards, which for me is all I need for coyote or even deer hunting. For those of you that want to go farther for long range shooting or hunting a simple sync to a Kestrel will correct for you. I use StrelokPro for my ballistics so when I’ve been shooting past 800 yards I just manually punch the yardage in.

My only complaints thus far is the range and mode buttons feel similar when you have the binos up to your eyes. I’ve found myself hitting the Mode button every so often when I think it’s the range button.

2nd is the Sig scan mode. If a guy is ranging a Target way out there you need to get used to push and let go rather than push and hold with these since they read so fast with the scan mode. It’s easy to let go of the button and wiggle just enough you get a range from something you didn’t want. By just aiming, pushing the button and letting go they work much better however this is opposite of the way a G7 works so for me, it’s taken some getting used.


Overall I think these are a steal for the options you get in the price range.

Feel free to ask any questions and I can try answer them or if I can’t, I’ll try to test it out.

 

[theallcineyes]

I watched a video from SHOT with the Sig rep introducing them. He said with the size of the objective these could theoretically range to 5000 yards and beyond on reflective targets. Looking forward to trying a pair.
One question I had is mounting, could not find any specs, do these have any type of stud mount? I find when pushing the limits of the lazer steady is best

 

[xswanted]

I watched a video from SHOT with the Sig rep introducing them. He said with the size of the objective these could theoretically range to 5000 yards and beyond on reflective targets. Looking forward to trying a pair.
One question I had is mounting, could not find any specs, do these have any type of stud mount? I find when pushing the limits of the lazer steady is best

In the right conditions I don’t think 5000 yards is a stretch of imagination. When I had 4797 pop up there was a lot of mirage and fairly bright still. Late in the day on reflective targets my guess is 5000 would be possible.

The front little cap on the center pivot of the binos comes off and there is a threaded hole there. Looks like a guy could have a tripod mount of some kind b

 

[xswanted]

Just stepped outside with these things right st dark.

Was getting readings of up to 4200 yards on buildings. This is about as far as I can range from my front porch on larger reflective objects.

Also had a deer standing in a worked up corn field from last fall, ranged her at 445 instantly

Not to mention the glass is pretty decent in low light.