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ELCAN DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope Demo Model SOLD AS IS
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Demo Model SOLD AS IS
- The world's first Digital Rifle Scope
- Electronic Ballistics Compensation
- Automatic Video Capture
- Multiple Selectable Reticles (Customizable Reticles)
- No Parallax
- Longest Eye Relief
- Large Constant Exit Pupil
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Demo Model SOLD AS IS
DigitalHunter™ by ELCAN Optical Technologies: The world's first Digital Rifle Scope brings the power of modern electronics and software to the shooting sports.
Wouldn't it be great to have a video clip of your first deer? Or his first deer?
Video clips captured by Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope show exactly what you saw when you took your shot...the "Hunter's View".
Electronic ballistic compensation enables the shooter to "hold where you want to hit™"! Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope is a range compensating riflescope, removing one contributor (holdover estimate) from the shooting equation.
The four field selectable reticles, when coupled with the four ballistic data tables, enable the scope to function as four different rifle scopes. The Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope can be setup for a centerfire rifle, a shotgun (great for turkey), a crossbow and a muzzleloader. Since the reticles are graphic images they can be any color, shape or size that can be drawn by the user via bitmap generating software...circles, lines, squares. Parallax is avoided since they aren't physical features of an image plane.
 Ray Sasser - About Elcan Digital Hunter Rifle Scope
There's a new rifle scope technology on the horizon, a spin-off from military developments made by the Raytheon Company. Traditional hunters and target shooters will not like the Elcan Digital Hunter rifle scope, a Star Wars-looking contraption that one shooting editor described as "butt ugly."
Techno-phobes will run the other way when they see a shooter on the firing line plug a USB cable into a laptop computer and load ballistics information into his rifle scope. Others will embrace the technology as they've done with each progressive step in an evolutionary chain that began with the Chinese invention of gunpowder.
I spent a chilly October morning on a firing line near Mabank being indoctrinated into the digital marksmanship era. My instructors were Jim Florence, chief engineer for Elcan, Rusty Mauldin, the company's sporting optics product manager, and manufacturer's representative Dave Brownfield. Elcan is a Raytheon subsidiary.
To make the demonstration complete, they brought two rifles. The rifles had scope-mounting rails already attached but the scopes were brand new – still in the box.
It took Florence about three minutes to mount a scope on a 30-06. He connected the digital scope to his laptop computer, called up a ballistic software package and entered the muzzle velocity and the ballistic coefficient of the Winchester ammo he was using.
The software calculated bullet drop at any range we might consider taking a shot, and the information was stored in a computer chip inside the scope. To remove as much human error as possible, Florence set the rifle on a shooting cradle called a Lead Sled. He bore-sighted by looking through the bore at a target 50 yards away.
It took me about four shots and corresponding adjustments to place a bullet in the center of that target. After that, all I had to do was tell the scope how far I was shooting, and it automatically adjusted the reticle to deliver a bullet dead-on at the desired range.
Adjustments are made, easily and quickly, through an LCD screen on top of the scope. It's similar to the screen on a digital camera, and it also serves as a playback screen for the video that's automatically triggered whenever a shot is fired.
Mauldin set up three-liter bottles of colored water at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards and we shot the plastic bottles, replaying the dramatic explosion of water when the bullet struck.
"The video feature was designed as a means for a hunter to record his shot at a game animal and be able to instantly review where the bullet hit or whether the shot was a clean miss," Mauldin said. "The video has become a valuable instructional tool that has made digital scope shooters into better shots."
When I fired at the 400-yard bottle, we all saw something fly up on impact, but the bottle appeared intact. A review of the video indicated that the bullet knocked off the white bottle cap and left the bottle standing.
The Digital Hunter rifle scope comes with four different reticles (crosshair configurations) already programmed into the scope. A white reticle can be selected to stand out against dark backgrounds. If none of the standard reticles suits you, you can design your own.
Unlike other rifle scopes, the Digital Hunter is not a telescope. Zooming is done electronically, from 2.5X to 16.5X magnification. The electronic magnification is parallax free and the exit pupil remains constant, allowing easy target acquisition, even at high power.
The only two drawbacks I could find were price and weight. The digital scope weighs 26 ounces, nearly seven ounces heavier than Leupold's LPS 3.5x to 14x, my personal favorite traditional scope.
Mauldin said physically challenged hunters are particularly excited about the Digital Hunter. It can be used with a video monitoring screen so the rifle can be sighted without your eye to the scope. That's a huge advantage for a quadriplegic, one-armed or no-armed shooter.
To make certain its electronics will not interfere with nearby cellphones, cameras, computers or other electronics, the Digital Hunter is also the only rifle scope approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Instant Replay - Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope
Video or still photographs can be reviewed on the LCD display immediately after they are captured to perform realtime shot diagnostics (determining aimpoint efficacy, impact effect, which way the intended target ran after the shot, etc.).
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Shot Activated Video/Photograph Capture - Elcan Digital Hunter Digital Rifle Scope
The digital rifle scope can be set such that a five second video sequence is captured and stored on an Secure Digital Memory Card activated by the shot. The five second sequence can be set to contain video that is all before the shot, a combination of video before the shot and after the shot, or all after the shot. The scope can also be setup to capture high, medium, or low resolution still imagery in the same manner.
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Generous Exit Pupil Diameter Constant Over Magnification Range
Video or still photographs can be reviewed on the LCD display immediately after they are captured to perform realtime shot diagnostics (determining aimpoint efficacy, impact effect, which way the intended target ran after the shot, etc.).
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Video Output Port - Elcan Digital Hunter Digital Rifle Scope
A video output port enables others to see what the shooter sees in real time when the video is viewed on an external monitor. This will be particularly suitable for shooting training and hunter safety classes. The video from this port allows the hunter to share his experience (whether successful or unsuccessful) with his hunting buddies back at camp through an external monitor.
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USB Port - Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope
The USB port provides an easy method for downloading customized reticles and ammunition ballistics to your scope. In addition, you can upload captured images & video from DigitalHunter™ to your computer.
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Secure Digital Card - Elcan Digital Hunter Digital Rifle Scope
The Secure Digital Card port provides a simple means of storing images & video from your scope. The port is compatible with the commonly available Secure Digital Memory Card format. In addition, all reticles and ammunition ballistic information can be transferred through the Secure Digital Card providing an alternative to the USB interface.
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Power - Elcan Digital Rifle Scope
The Power port provides an alternative power source to AA batteries. When at home designing reticles or uploading images, DigitalHunter™ can be plugged into residential power through a 12V AC/DC power adaptor. The Power port can also be connected with a number of aftermarket rechargeable 12 V power packs for those long days at the range or in the deer stand. To ensure that external cables do not interfere with shooting, DigitalHunter™ has been designed to automatically switch to battery power when external power is removed.
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Ballistically Corrected Reticle
The digital rifle scope automatically positions the scene so the shooter can hold "dead-on" at the estimated range to the target. The shooter inputs "zero range", "bullet data", "rifle data" into ballistic software, then downloads it to the scope via USB port. Then before the shot, he quickly and easily inputs "estimated range to the target" using the scope mounted key pad. The scope then positions the scene (positions the crosshairs) so the shooter can position the crosshairs at the desired point-of-impact. This allows the scope to compensate for the ballistics of the bullet/rifle combination rather than the shooter having to do it.
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Electronic Zoom - Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope
There are no moving parts in the scope except for diopter adjustment. Magnification is accomplished electronically, centered about the designated center pixel. Aimpoint does not change at all during magnification changes like it does on conventional scopes. Resolution does not change significantly from wide field of view to narrow field of view.
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Realtime Reticle Swapping - Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope
The hunter can have 4 different reticles loaded into the scope at one time and can use them in a variety of different ways.
One way, using this feature, is to have the scope sighted in at a certain range with Reticle No. 1 (100 yds), then a different range for Reticle No. 2 (like 200 yds), and so on. All four reticles would look the same (same color, same design).
Another way to use this feature is to have two reticles for a light background such as snow and two reticles for a dark background such as dark timber. The reticle features (lines, dots, etc.) for the light background could be black, green, or red, (or any other high contrast color) and the reticle features for the dark background could be light (white, lite gray, etc).
A third way to use this feature is to have light and dark reticle features incorporated into the same reticle so that the reticle can be clearly seen in light and dark background situations.
A fourth way this feature can be used is to have the different reticles setup for different bullets i.e., two for a light bullet (varmints) and two for heavier bullets (big game).
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| Magnification, x |
2.5 - 16.5 |
| Displayed FOV at 100 yards, ft |
36.4 (at 2.5x) - 5.8 (at 16.5x) |
| Exit Pupil Diameter, mm |
12 |
| Eye Relief, mm |
60 |
| Dopter Adjustment |
+/- 6 |
| Operating Time, hrs |
up to 4 at 77°F (25°C) |
| Power Source |
4 AA Lithium Batteries |
| Operating Temperature |
-4°F to 120°F (-20°C 49°C) |
| Length (without eye guard), in |
11.75 inches |
| Weight, oz |
26 |
| Environments |
Rainproof, Shockproof |
| Video Recording Rate |
15 Hz for 20 sec at QVGA resolution |
| Image compression |
JPEG |
| Video compression |
DV AVI Type 2 (MJPEG) |
| Memory |
Secure Digital Card |
Demo Model SOLD AS IS
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