Thread: Now i need a rangefinder ....

Originally Posted by Shearer

I assume that if you have never owned a rangefinder, you have not shot game at longer distances?
Have you shot targets at known distances (out to 600m) with said rifle?
The reason I ask is that recently I have seen (on You Tube) a lot of clips where people shoot at game at longer ranges (one was 950m!!) and miss/wound animals. They seem to think that if they have a magnum, a dial up scope and a rangefinder it will just happen. Personally that's not what I have found. It takes a lot of skill and preperation to consistantly kill game cleanly at 500m+. Not just the right tools.
Please don't take this as a knock. You may be a surperb marksman and done plenty of practice in the field at the distances you want to shoot If so excellent.
Sndway seem good value.

HI, thanks for your commentary .
I did purposefully not say too much about the rifle , but i think its reasonable to ask about my confidence in the rifle . So , for all , its a 7mm prc and its not my first rifle ( after some 50 yrs of hunting ) I load , and that 175 gr has about 2100 ft/sec at 600 yards and 1750 ft/lbs energy . . The rifle shoots half inch groups and on a good day i can put 3 roads on a 10 inch gong . Now to that 600 mts/yards . That spot is my usual spotting "spot " and its been measured many times over the yrs with mates who do own rangefinders . Now, honestly i have never shot an animal that far out . But over the years it just seems to me that we are reaching further and further out because the gear has got better .