Thread: Laser rangefinding with GPS linking

Have often thought about some sort of civilian version of "laser tagging" on target/terrain, how many times have you seen a deer through the binos and tried to tell your dopey mate next to you exactly where to look!

Would be great to tag it with a laser & your mate can see through his optics exactly where you were looking.

Originally Posted by Sika 8

Have often thought about some sort of civilian version of "laser tagging" on target/terrain, how many times have you seen a deer through the binos and tried to tell your dopey mate next to you exactly where to look!

Would be great to tag it with a laser & your mate can see through his optics exactly where you were looking.

Do this a lot when hunting at night, its great for pointing out possums when you can see the eyes but the shooter next to you is looking at a different part of the tree because they haven’t seen the eyes yet. Great for getting guided in when you shoot a deer in the scrub/gorse too. Most of the time, as the person doing the recovery you can’t actually see the laser if the scrub is thick, or if you are crossing a gully, but the spotter can see the laser and your torch and guide you in. Once you get reasonably close the laser is easier to see.

Originally Posted by longshot

Do this a lot when hunting at night, its great for pointing out possums when you can see the eyes but the shooter next to you is looking at a different part of the tree because they haven’t seen the eyes yet. Great for getting guided in when you shoot a deer in the scrub/gorse too. Most of the time, as the person doing the recovery you can’t actually see the laser if the scrub is thick, or if you are crossing a gully, but the spotter can see the laser and your torch and guide you in. Once you get reasonably close the laser is easier to see.

flick lazer across schrubbery infront of person being guided..back n forward to downed animal...follow the dot you pillick...like teasing the cat till it falls in swimming pool..not that anyone has ever done that...

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

flick lazer across schrubbery infront of person being guided..back n forward to downed animal...follow the dot you pillick...like teasing the cat till it falls in swimming pool..not that anyone has ever done that...

Yep, exactly how it is done at this end too, just gets a bit tricky when the recoverer is going through some dead ground between spotter and animal, that isn’t in line of sight of the spotter. And if it moves too fast it can be hard for the recoverer to see esp once factors like gorse-beam-diffusion start to come into play. This is when shouting directions helps.

Originally Posted by Sika 8

Have often thought about some sort of civilian version of "laser tagging" on target/terrain, how many times have you seen a deer through the binos and tried to tell your dopey mate next to you exactly where to look!

Would be great to tag it with a laser & your mate can see through his optics exactly where you were looking.

we have done this for 30 years using a simple $2 shop lazer pointer......the guy on spotlight has pointer so can point out animal.....still puts positive ID on the guy on light as well as trigger man....private land wallabies it was awesome..pre thermal days of course.