Thread: Which rangefinder?

Well I was generously lent a Yukon 1000 rangefinder from a Forum member (I wont name him in case he gets a thousand PM's from others haha). I then did a comparison test with the following range finders that I managed to beg or borrow off a few people:

Bushnell Yardage pro 1000
Yukon 1000
Leica LSR 900
Leica Geovid (tested on a different day - but same location)
Leica LSR1600 (tested on a different day - but same location)
Zeiss bino type (can't remember name - vitory???)

Long story short all of them could range cows out to 600y okay. Then the Bushnell struggled after that. The others all stopped ranging cows at about 920y or there abouts.

So I aimed it at tree's and hedge rows, and the Leica 900 and Geovid (older model) stopped getting results at 950y...the others kept going out to about 1400-1600 ish if you held it super steady.

So the Yukon at $360DNZ (off ebay delivered door to door from Australia) seamed pretty good buying to me, compared to other remaining options that cost thousands of dollars more. So that's what I've done.

To be honest, I would have loved to have brought a Leica...but there was no measureable difference in ranging performance between the cheaper Yukon and the Leica. I wasn't too concerned about optics as I have good bino's already. But the glass in the Yukon was far superior to the glass in the Leica 900 and the Bushnell. But then the other's had better glass than the Yukon did.

Anyway, not sure if that's of any help - but those are the results I've got from actual use.

kj