SIG BDX Reviews

The actual rangefinder is great. It’s also good to give quick scope dial adjustments out to a few hundred yards, but once you start to get distance 400 yards and out the ballistic program loses a bit of accuracy and gives calculations a tenth of a mil or two off. To be fair, The software does allow for calibrations to get it more accurate, which I have not done yet.

My three biggest beefs with the ballistic model so far is:
1. Very limited atmospheric inputs. The program only gives an altitude and temperature input but they aren’t the only two atmospheric inputs in a ballistic calculation, barometric pressure, and relative humidity can change a tenth of a mil or two shooting over 500 yards.
2. Fully featured stand alone Ballistic Apps like Ballistic AE allows you to record the atmospheric information for your zero when you zeroed your rifle. Then in the ballistic calculations you can use the current atmospheric data the day you are shooting. For example, If you zeroed your rifle in the middle of a hot humid summer day, and you are now shooting on a cold dry winter day, this affects the ballistic calculation. This BDX software only allows you to enter the current temp and altitude of the day, which to be accurate long distance you will have to re-zero your rifle for the conditions of the day.
3. No ballistic calculations provided over 800 yards even though the rangefinder can range over 1,000.

You can tell that SIG outsourced app creation to someone who just doesn’t care much. The UI is one of the worst I’ve seen on an iPhone app. Information is conveyed poorly. The library needs more commercial loads. There’s nothing Soviet there. Some input boxes need help buttons because they are not self descriptive. It’s very difficult to edit certain values because it doesn’t highlight the prior value for you to overwrite. The writing is just careless in its case and in menus and help dialogs. I just expected better for the money you’d spend on the products that go with SIGBDX. There also needs to be a canted sight base option… after all, this is supposed to be for long range shooters, no?

Easy to set up and sync software with the LRF via BT. After that it goes downhill. Very few modifications can be made to ballistic information. Only the few fields they provide are able to be modified. That’s not even my biggest problem with the software. My biggest beef is with the limited ballistic calculator range of only 800 yds. If the laser on a 2200 model can range an animal out to 1200, why can’t the software provide that come-up solution too. I’m not even asking the tree target out to 1600, since most people can’t even shoot that far. It’s a simple number game. The new range is this, here is your come-up. Please fix this in future software releases. I’ll upgrade my review then.

It sure would be nice if you added Apple Watch support.

I recently purchased the BDX 2400 kit and used SIGBDX to configure everything and it works great!

If I could ask for one thing though, it would be that you made an Apple/Smart watch app so I wouldn’t have to have the phone out for updates certain things!

This system is great. Took the click counting and dope dialing out of my long range hunting. The system is easy to use and is accurate. I use the system in my 308 and 224 Valkyrie. I have nothing bad to say about it. But I do wish it would go to 1000 yards, I just dial that in when needed.

I have been using this for a year now. It had made life much easier for hunting and target practice.

As an outfitter I can hand the client my rifle and use my range finder and know that range and firing solution is accurate and dependable.

Great app if your scope height is “standard height” which of course there is no such thing. This is easy to use with any scope, doesn’t need to be a sig BDX to make you more effective in the field. 3 stars because it is lacking an input for scope height which is one of the critical parameters. How did they miss this?

Connection with sig kilo is fast and works well.
Problem is that it only brings in temp and elevation, not humidity and atmospheric pressure.
Also, no ability to use the program when not connected to the device.
Nice in theory. Could be a 5 star program, hope they get there.

While SIGBDX and range finders and scopes work as advertised, SIGBDX needs work. It’s nearly impossible to see the fonts and the colors chosen.Need to just keep it simple with a dark background and light taxed or black and white. Way too hard to read.

Right away firmware does not work, besides that not behaving as I expect a device like this should behave. I wish one time you get something and it works but nope.

What is the library missing 30-06?

No place to enter barometric pressure which is important environmental data.

Will not discover/pair… iOS 14.7 🤷‍♂️