Thread: Ideal distance for a range finder

Shot a small Fallow in a scrub filled gully 300m downhill the other day, had my rangefinder for exact distance, took a compass bearing on it from a prominent rock I would see from down the bottom, then went after a pig I had seen in the opposite direction, got it and was able to come back and find my fallow, rangefinder and compass put me within 5m before the search actual started. In the habit of ranging features about me regularly as I go along so I always have a rough distance already in my head for those unexpected pop ups.