Carlos Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Just got an e-mail ad from an unreliable company (botach) regarding the perfect watch for IDPA: the 5.11 Tactical watch. What do you guys think? Here is the copy from the ad: "Precision on the go! Calculate point of impact by inputting critical variables that determine elevation and wind adjustments. Works on all MILDOT, TMOA, SMOA and clicking rifle scopes. Punch in data about the ammunition you are shooting and the conditions you are shooting in and the watch will display the appropriate hold over for a sure hit... It's that simple. This enhances a shooter's confidence to engage targets out to 1,000 meters with "whenever/wherever" portability. Data is easy to enter - even through gloves - with the most critical information arranged for fast change and access. Accuracy on your wrist! Shooting software (developed in partnership with Horus Vision LLC) Titanium case with uni- directional bezel (60 min countdown) Water resistant to 100 meters (330 feet) Easy-read robust watch hands with luminous coating Over-size dot Includes two watch bands: solid pin connection interchangeable by Allan- key > Diver-style black P.U. > Classic black leather matrix digital readout (back-lit for night view) showing: > Day, date, month calendar readout > Second time zone > Alarm > Chronograph/stopwatch function 1/100th second, with lap time > Countdown timer with alarm" Watch sounds perfect. Again, I recently had a bad experience w/ botach & cannot recommen them but I am sure the tactical watch is available elsewhere. Regards, D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Why not just tape a laminated 3x5 card with your trajectory and wind dope onto your stock and save yourself hours of button-punching and $198? Just got an e-mail ad from an unreliable company (botach) regarding the perfect watch for IDPA: the 5.11 Tactical watch. What do you guys think? Here is the copy from the ad:"Precision on the go! Calculate point of impact by inputting critical variables that determine elevation and wind adjustments. Works on all MILDOT, TMOA, SMOA and clicking rifle scopes. Punch in data about the ammunition you are shooting and the conditions you are shooting in and the watch will display the appropriate hold over for a sure hit... It's that simple. This enhances a shooter's confidence to engage targets out to 1,000 meters with "whenever/wherever" portability. Data is easy to enter - even through gloves - with the most critical information arranged for fast change and access. Accuracy on your wrist! Shooting software (developed in partnership with Horus Vision LLC) Titanium case with uni- directional bezel (60 min countdown) Water resistant to 100 meters (330 feet) Easy-read robust watch hands with luminous coating Over-size dot Includes two watch bands: solid pin connection interchangeable by Allan- key > Diver-style black P.U. > Classic black leather matrix digital readout (back-lit for night view) showing: > Day, date, month calendar readout > Second time zone > Alarm > Chronograph/stopwatch function 1/100th second, with lap time > Countdown timer with alarm" Watch sounds perfect. Again, I recently had a bad experience w/ botach & cannot recommen them but I am sure the tactical watch is available elsewhere. Regards, D. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew_Mink Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 For some reason, some random letters and words just popped in my head. P and T and Barnum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revchuck Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Sounds like it would work on a KD range with wind flags and such. When I think "tactical" and "1,000 yards", I use a radio and either CAS or arty. My M16A2 doesn't do well that far out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Tin Cup flashback at the driving range: "So, you got a golf watch?" "Yeah, I think I got a pretty good one." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 21st century decoder ring. Do they still make red ryder BB guns and Ovaltine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmittyFL Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 I kept waiting for the punchline.......you mean you're serious?!?!? Thank god it's good to 300 ft. After you HALO in 2 miles out and SCUBA your ass to the shore, you can still make that ever easy 1000yd shot in high winds. "Only one or two guys in the world could make that shot", now you'll be one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric nielsen Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Does it have a skull-crusher??? That would make it even MORE tactical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heath Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Does it have a skull-crusher??? That would make it even MORE tactical. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Tacticaler? Tacticalest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgary Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Tacticaler?Tacticalest? Highly Tacticulous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pisgahrifle Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 I like the pants. There, I said it- "I LIKE 5.11 PANTS!!" I'm thinking about getting another pair for hiking in the fall and spring, and maybe for early season hunting. I like where they've put pockets and how well-built they are to be so lightweight. I do, in fact, even have a vest. CAVEAT: I used to shoot IDPA and I got flak for having a ripped up old cover garment ("them torn out'n pockets'll give yuh an unfar advantage, they will"). I also got it for a better price than anyone has on anything ever before. I do not wear it out of the house. I like being married, and I agree with her on this one. Really. That said, it's getting harder and harder for me to wear my new favorite pants out in public with. First I see people actually wearing the vest in public. Then I see a guy wearing the pants and a "US Marshals" polo on the Metro, replete with some "tactical" nylon briefcase. Then I hear they've come up with a "tactical blazer." (I own quite a few sportcoats and one or two blazers. I have worn a full-sized 1911 under all of them. They have hidden it very well for many years. My wife likes them, though she considers many of them outdated and strange. They are not tactical. Many of them are twill.) Now a "tactical watch?" I'll stick with my 3x5s, an ink pen and tape, and when I need to know what time it is I'll look at my cell phone, thank you very much. My A2's stock may be covered in stickygoo from loads long past, but at least I can confidently say I didn't pay $200 to be tactical. I think I'll breath now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry White Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 I still have a Red Ryder that works, and I know the elevation and wind dope for it. I dont need thier f#%*ing watch.-----Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Murphy Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 I was at a match several weeks ago and a shooter was telling me how anxious he was for the 5.11 watch to come out. I have an old pocket watch myself. Not very kewl or tactical. Ted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Practical Use Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Here it is: http://www.511tactical.com/Products/Tactical/HRTWatch.asp Does anyone have any idea how well this will work on a 7 yard target???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dunn Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Having ROed a highly skilled team at the ITRC utilizing the Horus Vision ATRAG (or whatever it is called) system on a PDA, I can tell you that it does work in the field. I can also tell you it is way, way too slow. I'm a fairly diehard dial the elevation, hold the windage guy. Don't anticipate getting the watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Perez Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Here it is:http://www.511tactical.com/Products/Tactical/HRTWatch.asp Does anyone have any idea how well this will work on a 7 yard target???? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> if you throw it hard enough - you might score "down 0".....or could miss the whole thing which would get you a -5 + FTN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Practical Use Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 If I break the crystal would that be a FTDR????? Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sac Law Man Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Whats next, the 5.11...1911? HRT model of course.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 I like the pants. There, I said it- "I LIKE 5.11 PANTS!!" I'm thinking about getting another pair for hiking in the fall and spring, and maybe for early season hunting. I like where they've put pockets and how well-built they are to be so lightweight. I think I'll breath now. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've been wearing 5.11 pants since before I could even climb 5.11 (today, of course I can barely haul myself up a 5.9-- too much time shooting and not climbing, but I digress). Anyway, I agree the tactical fashion-show is getting ridiculous. I feel similarly at the new Cabelas store-- it's got more floor space for camo clothes than all the non-camo clothes combined. Does anybody need that much camo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcloudy777 Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 You may just be the first person Bill disqualifies for having a "competition-only" watch. or you might just get bumped to EST. (Enhanced Service Timepiece)... And don't even THINK about trying to have your watch stippled.... DanO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusher Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Yes they still do make "Ovaltine" the malt stuff is da BEST! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSeevers Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 I just got in a pair of 5.11 shorts that I won at a match. I'll wear them at a USPSA match this weekend and feel so dirty(read tactical) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hey QuicksDraw! Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Horus Vision does work. It works faster if you put your dope on the stock or scope caps in the morning and just run with those numbers. It is slow if you try to punch up each shot on your PDA as you go. If someone where to combine the functions of a Kestrel 4000 and have it dump the enviormental data directly into the Horus Vision software and put it on a watch I'd buy it. I could dump two pieces of equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 SmittyFL wrote: "I kept waiting for the punchline.......you mean you're serious?!?!?" No, of course I am not serious. The watch IS real & Botach did spam me about it. However, I do not wear a watch & afraid I do not own any 5.11 products. My posting about this watch was worth it for the humor in all the replies - especially the "X% More Tactical than Previous Versions!" Puting it in the humor section would have been just too much of a give away. D. (pisgarifle - have you been down to shoot a match at Shooters Paradise yet?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catfish Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Not to mention the ftdr for wearing a watch designed to reduce recoil because it wieghs 5 pounds - just remember to wear it on your strong hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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