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Standalone rangefinders are ok but really a pain in the arse....think rangefinding binos. Yes expensive but so much easier & user friendly. You can glass away, range the game without having to put anything down. It can be really frustrating putting bino's down then trying to find the quarry in the rangefinder. I started off with a Leica 1600 but now have some geovids - you can pick these up secondhand at a good price if your prepared to wait.
I use a Yukon Extend LRS for all my ranging, and the longest range that I have managed was 1970 metres on a cool morning (on houses), and 1486 metres on cattle in a paddock. As the day heats up, all rangefinders lose efficiency because the infrared pulse is affected by ambient heat, and humidity can also be a factor. Only side-by-side tests have any relevance.
This might be a dumb thing to ask but does the y stand for yards on the box of a leica geovid HD when it has on it geovid HDY
does the 1200 leica not calculate the angle like the 1600?
Was using my Bushnell Gforce 1300 in the weekend and was easily and consistently getting ranges too 1100yards, if I had a decent rest I recon it'd go further.
If money is not an option the Leica seems to be the ticket, but if you are only ever going to range less than 800 to 1000yards then there is other options that are a fair bit cheaper.