Federal Ammunition 17+

This is essentially a very basic drop calculator with some built in loads for salesmanship and extremely limited usefulness to a shooter.

There are several glaring usability issues.

The ballistics calculator does not save the last entered data but instead auto resets the form just because you back out to the main menu. There is no reason for this, there is a reset button if you wanted to reset! The load would have to be saved but you might have just been dabbling with variations and not want to save but also not want to re-enter everything again!

The ballistics table display doesn’t format right to fit on the screen (iPhone 7) and you have to move it sideways to see it all... that is ridiculous to say the least and super sloppy. Yeah I had inches and MOA displayed, but if you can’t display them both don’t offer to!

There is nothing here about stability, corialis, sighting angle (of course all ranges are flat... ok experts, sure). No indicators for supersonic and transonic barriers, poor atmospherics (no humidity), only wind speed not direction so you have to do the reduction for angle yourself.

There is no way to ‘reload’ and modify a saved load, you just have to re-enter everything.

This isn’t even ready for beta release as a ballistics calculator. It’s hardly more than a crayon and a napkin.

I suppose it’s primary value is having a BC number published by Federal to take and put into a real calculator.

Looks like it might be a good resource for basic ballistic info but app crashes after you select the ammo parameters, especially if you try to change the range. Too bad. Just like the Winchester app, this one is unfinished or published by people who doesn’t care about their business. Typical. Please hire software developers who care what they’re doing so I can give this app five stars.

It’s also a shame that Federal chooses to dis \respect customers by withholding their privacy policy info. If they were required to reveal this information, smart users would delete this app or any other that has an abusive privacy practice. I guess that’s why apple lets app makers get away with not revealing their privacy practices!

Every time I try to access the ballistic calculator the app just hangs with a spinning wheel. Tried ejecting the app and even deleted and reinstalled it.

Even when it didn’t hang it would not allow me to specify the muzzle velocity when using factory loads, making the calculation all but useless.

Not worth the hassle.