MTC Rapier ballistic rangefinder review

Very interesting Tom, I'm surprised it doesn't have a click up or down feature too. Won't be long (just a matter of time) until MTC develops a scope that does it all, reads the distance and adjust your reticle to that distance. Someone recently posted about a bow sight that actually does this. They are definitely on the ball with their optics technology. Nice job on the video and thanks for sharing.
Jimmy

Thanks Tominco, I really enjoyed your review, the data entry part seems a little overwhelming for me but I admit I'm not that very technical when it comes to even using my own computer, I can see that there will be a learning curve to setup correctly but what isn't these days. Where do you live?, it looks like Sonora foothills to me. 

Nice review!
It seems to me that they missed out on adding a feature to complete the ballistic calculation package. The weather data it can download of the net doesn't include prevailing wind data for your given area, having that with the addition of some sort of built in compass to get the direction you are pointing the rf should give a windage calculation in the app. I realize that windage can alter depending where you are situated, example open field or heavily wooded or hilly/mountainous area but it seems like it would have nice to have that option.

There were a couple other small criticisms that I had but cant seem to remember them at the moment, though all in all its a pretty nifty piece or gear.

Nice review. Appreciate all the work that goes into making your videos. 
Mike

Got it!

Well done Tom, WOW those things are really expensive!

For hunting I thing it’s a great tool. For target shooting it would be helpful but not necessary, If I was looking for a new RF I would consider it but my old Hawke unit is good enough.

When it's working correctly, my ATN X-Sight II HD will make all those calculations and then automatically change the crosshairs without talking to me. Pretty cool. For those who prefer glass, this rangefinder is the bomb. Thanks for the review, Tom

BeemanR7

I guess for this younger generation all this seems like a natural progression, to me it seems like if God had wanted you to fly He would have given you wings. You young woopersnappers don't seem to realize that when I started driving a big truck from the east coast to the west coast ... we used to carry a bag full of quarters ... because there was no such thing as a cell phone, every truck stop would have about a hundred pay phones so the drivers could get directions ...when I was a kid there were only 3 channels on the TV and all of them were network channels, every house had a huge outside antenna on the roof, no cable channels and all in black and white. There was no such thing as space travel, no microwaves, no computers, no tubeless radial tires, the only music in the house came from a radio or 45 rpm record players, no CDs, no air conditioning, no dishwashers. When we got a long distance call from Grandpa, mom would always be right beside us shouting "HURRY UP ... IT'S LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG DISTANCE" When I got out of service I was making $1.25/hour and if I brought home $40 a week I was in hog heaven ... and now ... now we have ... talking range finders that does everything except pull the trigger for you .... Oh Lord, methinks I have lived too long. Long gone are the days when I used to walk 3 miles to get to school through the snow ... uphill both ways.

Tom ... I thought about what you said in your post ... about embraceing new technology. In fact, I went to sleep last night thinking about it and had the worst nightmare I've had in many a moon. I thought about the pros and cons of the issue and have come to the conclusion that it's not worth it. Bad things happen when I embrace new thechologies, my first transistor radio fell in the bath tub with me shocking the snot outta me. It's like a dark cloud settles over me ... a vortex and a whirlwind created by the powers that be from the foundations of the earth suck me up into the new possibilities of what science has created ... but the natural universe around me goes rabid and things start happening all around me that shows that I have thrown the entire universe out of kilter.... golf ball size hail begin to assault half the continental United States, the stock market collapses, depreciation of money begins, depression follows, the government will no longer be able to give out all these benefit programs, economic chaos ensues, homeless people will start flocking to the farmlands looking for food only to be butchered for trespassing, their bodies left to rot in the fields. Carrion will abound. Disease will spread from the rotting corpses and be spread to cities all over the world by packs of wild dogs. Cougars, mountain lions and rabid skunks will roan city streets attacking whatever they can. People will shoot at them in the darkness only to miss and end up shooting each other. Nuclear fail safe systems all over the world will get screwed up, guidance controls will fail, the missles will begin flying and exploding in random patterns all over the globe. Bombs will hit the North Pole, the polar ice caps will melt causing flooding and destruction of all coastal cities. Sharks will roam the warm waters flooding downtown San Francisco feasting upon Armani clad venture capitolists and lawyers. Dormant volcanos will be triggered. Earthquakes will bring down all the tall buildings in all the cities crushing the public and killing millions with glass shards. Nuclear holocaust will lead to martial law and vigiliantism. Containment systems for chemical and biological weapons will fail and horrible disease and nerve agents will rapidly spread everywhere. All babies will be mutants. All women will become bald. True zombies will roam the earth howling at the moon. It is the end of civilization as we know it. When I awoke the last thing I remember was the combined voices of millions of victim screaming "WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!!!!" The wife said I was sweating all over the bed screaming at the top of my voice "It's not my fault, it was Tom ... Tom in Colorado ... he did it!!!"

Yeah, okay, whatever ... I know people say I'm crazy ... but crazy is like running into walls ... and I stopped doing that yesterday ... so in all sincerity ... I'm not sick ... sick makes it sound like there's a cure.

John

Question: is this just for air guns or does their calculation app cover firearms as well? Given that it ranges out to 1,000 yards I'd suspect so but just wondering. This could be my 'go-to' ranger finder for plinking, hunting with air guns and firearms. Heck, I could get windage in the duck blind even. I know some view this as cheating and I get that. I'll never use a range finder fly fishing for sure but then I am not taking d a destructive shot. Kentucky windage is fine for targets, but real animals deserve your best humane shot. Humane kills require precision and with better precision, you have more humane kills and are less tempted to push the edges. Or she the money and take fewer shots when they are marginal with 'Kentucky windage'. Good to have option and we get to choose.