How about you?

[bluealtered]

I've had my range finder now for around five years. It's nothing fancy, a simple Nikon 550 that works very well. I noticed after getting it that it will range most days out to about 600yds. Our area is such that you may need to be on your hands and knees to go through it or if you get up on a ridge you may be able to shoot 1,000 yards or more.

we were out and on top of a ridge on a good sunny day last year and scoping across to the next ridge my buddy asked me how far that was, i told him my range finder wouldn't go that far but i took a look at a ridge that was closer to us and tried. It worked, that ridge was 776yds, so i ranged the first ridge we were looking at and it was 935yds. Has this happened to you?

 

[bloc]

Yes. My older Leica 800 has gotten out past 1000 yards. But conditions were optimal.

 

[dkhunt14]

Yes I have ranged to over 1800 with my Swarovski. I have also ranged to over 3500 with my Terrapin. Big objects, like the side of a mountain and usually cloudy. Matt

 

[Nomad47]

1855 yards (trees or buildings) with my Bushnell ARC 1600 range finding binoculars.

 

[FatOldMIHunter]

I've ranged out to 800 with a cheap Bushnell. I found that I had to hold the button down longer to get a reading that far away.

 

[bluealtered]

Ahhhh, ... thanks guys. yes conditions were perfect that day and what we were ranging was a boulder pile that may have been the size of trucks. I never thought about leaving the button down longer, i will try it as soon as the snow melts and i can get back up there.

 

[Nobody]

I've got a Leopold 1200ti (something like that). It's very good (fast and accurate) on white painted steel (highly reflective) targets out to about 1,200yds. I've only ranged deer under 400yds, and it worked well. I've tried to range trees a lot further, and it doesn't do well and often doesn't register.

It seems to me that in rangefinders you get what you pay for. If you really want to accurately range out to a mile you are going to pay through the nose. I generally figure about half of the advertised distance is the usable distance across all targets. 80% of the time I'm ranging painted steel, so the one I have is all I need.