OT Rangefinder on a budget

[pharmseller]

My dad is looking to buy a rangefinder. His budget is around $250.
What are his best options?
He's looking for ranges not over 5 or 6 hundred yards.

P

[stew71]

Go to Cabela's website and check out the Bushnell RFs. You can find several under $250 and will work well enough at the ranges you specify.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templ ... =cat602006

I keep one of these with my archery gear with nary an issue. I also use it on occasion at the golf course or driving range.

[Blaine]

I have a Bushnell and the only problem is shooting thru trees......it may pick up a tree much closer than the target you are ranging.

[L_Kilkenny]

In my experience, the rating of range finders is based completely on reflective targets. In the real world, they only work well for 1/2 their listed range. If you are ranging off of a vehicle or structure a 100 yard finder will work at 1000 yards. If you are ranging a deer or tree a 1000 yard finder will be lucky to reach 500 yards. YMMV.

LK

[Tycer]

That's about the price for used Leica LRF 800s on fleabay. You might find a Leica Pinmaster for even less.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Leica-PinMaster-Gol ... 500wt_1176

[pokey]

check it out,

http://shop.sportsmansguide.com/search/ ... angefinder

[Doc Hudson]

he cp;d a;ways make one, but carrying around a 30 foot pole in the woods might be kinda difficult.

All he'd need is a 30" pole, two five and one-half foot poles with a sighting vane on top, and two round brass or other metal discs witha socket for the short poles the degrees of a circle marked on them and a note pad and pen, so two 30 foot poles would be even better and moer accurate..

All he'd have to do would be to sight the sighting vanes on eat upright at either end of the 30' pole, read the degree of the angls of the sighting and figure the height of the triangle formed by the 3- foot base and the point where the sighting vanes converge.I know a 3-' pole will be tought to carry through the woods but the longer the base line the more accurate the range reading.

It would be a lot slower than one of those fancy dan laser ranefinders, but it would be derned sight cheaper. Y'all don't laugh too much. That was the exact way artillerymen and naval gunnery officers figured ranges before the invention of ranging radar.

[Ysabel Kid]

I bought mine from Sportsman's Guide years ago, and it works just fine! Was a tad over $100 IIRC.