Thread: Which rangefinder?

Not sure on the beam sizes on this unit, but when ranging objects on the farm like cows, water troths, trees, hedges and building etc.. the Yukon/Leica/Zeiss were all within 5 yard of each other on the readings right out to 1600y and none of them showed any real advantage over the other for ranging duties. Glass is another story and so too was magnification - the more expensive items were better in that department (minus the older model Leica 900 which was shithouse for glass quality which surprised me?).

Ranging beyond 1600y I struggled to get reading with all of them. That's more likely my fault as I just couldn't hold it steady enough to get readings, even when leaning on a table, just pushing the button was enough to push it off target and miss a reading. The Bushnell and the bino types where much easier to hold steady and I can see a major advantage in the bigger units for this reason alone.

Somehow I can't help but think if these items where blind tested with no brand names attached the results would certainly be interesting to read afterwards (which is what I basically tried to do).

kj