Thread: budget rangefinders, any good?

Has anyone bought a rangefinder from aliexpress or temu like websites and found them to be anygood? i know you usually get what you pay for but i'm very tempted to buy one of these for around the $100 mark

Look on here for the thread about the SNDWAY range finders. They are good and most of the guys who want a cheap range finder are happy with them.
I brought one myself but havent tested it in the feild yet but am happy with it .

Got an aliexpress one, the range estimates it gives are accurate, however it does tend to eat batteries while turned off...

My brother has a SNDWAY and it consistently reads within a few yards of my leupold one, he's had it maybe 3 years and hasn't given any troubles.
Only noticeable thing is that its not as clear to look through. But at $450 cheaper I could live with that.

my brother in law just got a $100 one off temu for golf, reads the same as my $400 ranger one.

out to 250m anyway, haven't tied it any further than that. my suspicion is that they come out of the exact same factory, you just pay less because of the lack of brand name, quality control and warranty.

so you know, usual deal with ali or temu, don't spend anything you aren't willing to lose, but if it does work it will be just as good.

I have had a cheap one for over 6 years now. I got it from accuracy developments, undoubtedly Chinese and has a golf sub menu for adding point distances. Reliably reads to 1000 yards and gives the same distance readings as others with Bushnell, SIG and vortex get. Only slight gripe is it isn't tbr and the readout isn't illuminated which makes last light use a bit iffy

Wulf have some cheaper ones, under $400. I don't have one myself.