Kestrel LiNK Ballistics vs First Light

The Kestrel LiNK® Ballistics App gives you the ability to manage key features and functions of your connected Kestrel Ballistics device to maximize convenience and boost your shooting performance. Quickly and easily create, upload, download, and store gun profiles and access the Applied Ballistics and Hornady libraries of lab-tested bullet parameters and profiles for use in your Kestrel Ballistics Meter using the Gun Profile Manager(1). Place your Kestrel in the vane mount on a tripod (sold separately) to view solutions remotely from your shooting position on your mobile device using Single Target Mode. Create and send up to 10 custom targets to your Kestrel or export a printable range card using Target Card Mode(2). The Kestrel LiNK Ballistics app also allows you to easily update the firmware in any LiNK-enabled Kestrel Ballistics meter or HUD so you always have the latest features and improvements. * Kestrel 5700 Elite Weather Meter with Applied Ballistics, Kestrel 5700 with Hornady 4DOF, Kestrel 5700 Ballistics Weather Meter, 2700 Ballistics Weather Meter, and Kestrel HUD Heads Up Display (1) Kestrel 5700 Elite Weather Meters with Applied Ballistics can access Applied Ballistics G1 & G7 BCs and AB Custom Drag Models. Kestrel 5700 and 2700 Ballistics Weather Meters can access Applied Ballistics G1 & G7 BCs. Kestrel 5700 Ballistics Weather Meters with Hornady 4DOF can access Hornady G1 & G7 BCs and Hornady Bullet Files. (2) Target Card Mode available on Kestrel 5700 Elite Models only.

First Light calculates legal shooting hours — sunrise and sunset plus a configurable offset — entirely on your device. No network connection required, ever, which matters because most competing hunting-hours apps need a signal at least once to load their data. How it works: 1. Tap "Use my location" (or enter coordinates manually for a spot you're scouting ahead of time). 2. First Light computes sunrise, sunset, and the legal shooting-hours window for that location using its GPS coordinates — no server round trip. 3. Check today's window at a glance, or scroll a 7-day outlook to plan ahead. Each day also gets a game-activity rating from its solunar periods (the hours when the moon is overhead or underfoot) and, whenever you have a signal, the forecast: a falling barometer, wind and temperature. Treat the rating as hunting lore turned into a number, not a promise; the legal-hours math never leans on it. The default offset is 30 minutes before sunrise / after sunset, the common federal-style norm — adjustable in-app since exact legal offsets vary by state and species. Please verify with your local wildlife agency. Legal shooting-hour offsets and season dates vary by state and species and change year to year. First Light does not include per-state regulation data or season dates — it's a sunrise/sunset calculator with a user-adjustable offset, not a substitute for your state's official regulations. There is nothing to sign into. Your coordinates are used to work out where the sun sits for that spot, and we never receive them. With a signal, a copy rounded to about a kilometre goes to MET Norway, the Norwegian weather service, to fetch the forecast. The banner is served blind -- no targeting, nothing about you attached.