Overview

The Kestrel 2500 takes the great features of the Kestrel 2000 and adds in a pressure sensor. A three-hour pressure trend indicator helps you predict fish and wildlife activity and know when the weather's going to turn nasty. With its easy-to-use digital pressure altimeter, you have the perfect instrument for any outdoor activity.

In addition to predicting weather activity, barometric pressure also influences a bullet’s trajectory, which is why the Kestrel 2500 is used by shooters and hunters when accuracy is important. US Olympic Rifle Champion Shooter Lones Wigger wouldn’t trust any other instrument. “The Kestrel Meter is essential for target rifle shooting. It helps me win matches, and I rely on it for accurate weather information.”

Available in the NV Configuration

Military personnel and pilots flying in darkness are often concerned with preserving their night vision. Due to overwhelming demand from our military customers, the Kestrel NV line was added in 2005.

The Kestrel 2500NV has a night-vision preserving backlight which helps users to sustain natural night vision. The NV's backlight incorporates an optical filter to reduce overall brightness and minimize blue and green spectrum light to preserve night vision. Additionally, NV backlights are also much dimmer than a standard backlight, making it more difficult to detect with the naked eye in night operations. This backlight appears soft greyish pink, not red, and is still in the visible spectrum, so is not compatible with night-vision equipment.

It takes 30 to 45 minutes for the average eye to adapt to darkness and maximize night vision. Even a short burst of white, yellow, green or blue light “bleaches out” the rod cell photoreceptors in the eye and causes night blindness until the entire adaptation process can take place again. Light in the red spectrum does not cause this “bleaching out”, preventing night blindness and night vision fatigue.

Kestrel 2500 Measures

• Current Wind Speed


• Maximum Wind Gust


• Average Wind Speed


• Air, Water & Snow Temperature


• Wind Chill


• Barometric Pressure


• Altitude

Kestrel 2500 Features

• Real-time clock


• Protective cover with sure-grip overmolding


• Data hold function


• Large easy-to-read display with backlight


• Waterproof and floats


• Innovative design for stability and accuracy in abrupt condition changes


• Patented user-replaceable impeller


• Quick response, external thermistor


• High precision pressure sensor


• Reliable, portable and easy to use


• All instruments and accessories are completely assembled in the USA


• 5-year warranty

Kestrel 2500 Includes

• A slip-on protective cover


• Neck lanyard


• CR2032 coin cell battery (Average life 300 hours)


• Kestrel Certificate of Conformity