Comments on: MOBALL Deployable Ballistics Computer from Bryan Litz

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:23:40 +0000

I have a ti-89 and I wanted to download the program onto it. Everytime I click your link it says nothing found.

By: jack ford

jack ford — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:39:55 +0000

is the moball systom still available,very interested..thanks

Jack: I believe Bryan Litz is no longer producing the MoBall. Bryan does sell the Shooter ballistics app for Android OS. See http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/products.htm

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:55:55 +0000

Got the book for Christmas, it’s fantastic. I have the computer on order now. Looking forward to it!

By: Bryan Litz

Bryan Litz — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:39:34 +0000

To anyone who may still be watching this old pose, I’m writing to let you know that I’ve added the option to use meters/MILS in MOBALL.
http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/MOBALL.htm

On discussing it with several shooters who requested metric, it turns out that most of them didn’t want complete metric (caliber in mm, bullet weight in grams, temp in Celsius, etc) but only the range and drop in meters and MILS.

MOBALL has been upgraded to accept range in meters (as well as yards) and output drop in cm and MILS (as well as inches and MOA).

-Bryan

By: Bryan Litz

Bryan Litz — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:24:58 +0000

I’d like to point out that ‘Ray’ and ‘Charles’ are the two guys who ‘couldn’t find’ the right links. No disrespect intended toward anyone (including the blind musician), but I thought this was funny.

I can see there will have to be a metric capability in MOBALL’s future. Thank you Sal, Tom and Jonas for your comments on this. My thinking was that one could set their rangefinders and Kestrels to output in imperial units. MOBALL can give drop in MILS, so technically it’s covered, but I also understand the preference of users to deal with units with which they’re familiar and comfortable.

I’ll get to work on a metric capability and announce when it’s available. Anyone interested in being notified directly when this capability is available can email me at:
Bryan.Litz@appliedballisticsLLC.com

It will also be possible to send updates to those who’ve already purchased the original MOBALL, so they won’t be left out.

Thanks again for the useful comments,
-Bryan

By: jonas

jonas — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:34:21 +0000

The device looks nice, but no metric input?
I think it wouldn’t be too hard to add metric input right. If you put out this Mobile Ballistics Computer with the option of switching to metric, i will buy it and many other shooters probably think the same way.

By: Steve Clark

Steve Clark — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:43:53 +0000

Ray:

http://www.appliedballisticsllc.com/index_files/Combo.htm

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:32:04 +0000

I would like to order MOBALL and book together but can’t find site to order both for holiday price.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:15:36 +0000

Really like the longevity for field use a calculator offers over a PDA. I have as Sal confirmed your book/software with real world results and it fits very very well.

You have the ballistics nailed, but you have a fair bit to go on human/machine interface in stress environments (I work with that professionally).

It’s a metric/MIL world for a tactical competitor, and a solution that complicates or increases the workload in an already critical phase will not do.

To collect MIL/metric data, convert to MOA/imperial input externally and have MIL/MOA outputs again doesn’t exactly improve your error budget.

As a minimum offer to make inputs directly compatible with the wanted output (metric/metric/mil). If you want a serious stand-alone product you need to do some work on the menu/input/presentation system as well.

If you’ll implement, I’ll do the stress interface design for free.

By: Streken / sal

Streken / sal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:52:10 +0000

Bryan,
Your book is probably the best I have read on this matter.
I have both shot and compared earlier data results using your program, and it is very very acurate.
But why don’t you add the option of Metric inputs/ outputs as a starting value ?
I could spend hours trying to explaining how infinitely more difficult inches/ Moa and feet is than metrics right through..

If the program was metric I’d get ten units straightaway, not one, as I am considering now, but delaying because I know this will have little or no use in the field for my metric brain. It could be used for reference only.