NRL Hunter Binos: Prioritizing Ballistic Solver vs Glass Quality

[white_rushin]

Hello, I attended my first NRL Hunter and I’m officially hooked. I have a question for the more experienced folks on this site:

My teammate and I approached our stages with a handheld LRF + standard binos. We lost a significant amount of time on each stage because of juggling multiple devices.

I’ll be buying a set of RF Binos this summer to use for training + next NRL season. Money is a concern since I cannot rationalize spending $3000 on a tool that I’ll be using somewhat frequently. It appears in that $1K-$1.5K price range, there’s a trade off between having a ballistic solver (Sig Canyon, 6K HDX) vs higher glass quality but no ballistic output (Vortex Fury, GPO Rangeguide, Geovid R)

For any reader or NRL competitor, do you think it’s better to have worse glass + ballistics or sacrifice the ballistics and get better glass? For reference I use a data card / arm sleeve.

 

[wpeach1912]

The glass on the sigs isn’t that awful. I have the older 3ks, and I very rarely don’t find targets. If you get the 6ks, you’ll need a kestrel or something for solutions past 800. The fury ABs are a good in between with having full AB, but they are a bit slow for some people

 

[mmlook]

for NRL hunter, under $1k, its hard to beat the Sig 6K's
- Sigs have the fastest laser/solver of all the top ones.
Even the 3K and 6K's will range something way faster than pretty much anything else

for a team, I would say, best bang for the buck.
1 pair of Sig 6K's
and 1 pair of good non range finding binos
like a used pair of Swaro EL's or maybe Zeiss or Leica