Howdy! everybody;
Wondering if someone could help me out with something? Is there any cheap alternative to those high priced range finders. Seems no one sales those mechanical ones any more. What about the cheap nock offs they use for golf? I would appreciate any help, cause I really am bad at judging distance from my tree stand.
God Bless/Good Hunting!
They don't sell mechanical ones anymore because no one wants them, DTDT. Junk. The old prism style compared to a laser is like a horse drawn cart compared to an automobile.
You can find really good slightly used Lasers here in the classifieds for 100 bucks. They are not expensive.
What are you talking about? Have you ever used one?
Optical range finders have a lot of advantages over laser.
1- no battery
2-lighter
3-practicly indestructible. I have dropped mine out of a 18 foot tree stand and it hit a rock at the bottom. Still worked.
4-they will range anything, no false reading, you can pick out a single branch or weed and get precise readings.
My son has a new Nikon laser. We have compared them may times. On easy to range targets they are totally comparable. On small or soft targets my optical blows away his laser.
The only down side to them is that their accuracy is very much dependent on the operator. It is much easier for a dummy to use a laser.
For the general public a laser is a better buy but to call them junk is just plane stupid. How do you think the Navy and Army knew where to aim their big guns before the invention of lasers?
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