pdq 5oh

I have a Sport. Couldn' t see the extra money to do things I felt unnecessary. It tells me what I need to know. How far away things are. Range a few things around your stand & you' re ready to go. BTW, still on the original battery after one year.

rcd567

I have a Nikon Lazer 400 and you can' t leave a battery in it overnight. Eats them faster than my teenager eats pizza. Wish I knew of a fix for it.

I don' t put the battery in it until I' m ready to use it. Or if I' m hunting.

c903

Tfox

" jsasker" was begging to be talked out of buying the RF. I was only doing my bit.

I know several fellow-shooters that own RF' s. They (RF) remain in their packs or at their house.

I know that many hunting techniques are an individual thing. However, for all 6 of my positions, I have paced and know the distances within all the fire zones for each position sometime during early spring or summer. If I move during the season, I only move myself.

I suppose if a person moves his/her stand a lot during the actual hunting period, and wants to reduce the noise and traffic already created by moving and installing a stand, and then whacking out fire zones, an RF might be productive to determine the range within fire zones now seen from the stand.

However, I have a question. If the benefit of an RF in the bush is to determine distances within your zones from your stand so that you can eliminate walking around your new position that you have quietly slipped into, what do you do when looking through the view-finder you discover there are obstructions in your lines-of-fire?

TFOX

C903


If I setup a stand early in the year,I do make shooting lanes but still use a rangefinder to range markers.When slipping into big buck country,I leave the surroundings as untouched as possible.I am a pretty good judge of how an arrow will travel to the target and you will be surprised at how many times that limb that looks like it is in the way really isn' t.The limbs you need to worry about are the ones half way that are just above the line of sight of the spot you want to hit.Also I have been known to hunt public land that you are not allowed to cut down any limbs or trees that might be in the way.So I have learned to deal with it.





I never step yardage.Even in the yard I have absolute markings not approximate.I have bricks buried ground level at 5 yard increments so I am trained to know what 5 yards is.I have learned to judge yardage to be as close to exact as possible.But when in the field in different terrain and from an elevated stand,a rangefinder helps eliminate 1 possible problem.My pins are setup exact and not approximate.


It is also very important to know how to shoot at unknown distances also.Being able to gap when you are not sure of the range is a usefull skill in the field.I am not one that is dependant upon a rangefinder,but rather one that understands and knows how to use a usefull tool to gain a slight advantage from time to time.


Good luck this year.[8D]

c903

Do not misunderstand, some hunters will have a realistic use for a range finder. I was just providing food for thought in case " jsasker" does not. Only he knows in the end.

As for establishing (approximating) distance in the brush, being I do not have a realistic need for a range finder, and I do not carry a measuring tape in the field, I match my (range) measuring method to that which I find more convenient to use in the field.....pacing. E.g., 25 paces on the range - 25 paces in the field. With my bows, a few inches one way or another will not make a difference.

I only use one " daytime" pin set at 25-paces, and one late " low-light" pin set at 12 paces. A shooter that uses multiple pins for multiple distance settings might find it easier to establish the distance to various spots for the corresponding pin by using a range finder.

Big Country

WOW! That first post of yours c903, had me just about dizzy enough to fall out of my chair!

c903

Big

It was cryptic. You had to read between the lines and find the essence of my message.