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I love my new rangefinder, I picked up a 1500 elite last week and have only began to play with it, and my first impresions are what a great way to measure distance, but also adding a corrective arch with A to H velocity ranges for over 500 loads and B.Cs. It tells you the degree angle and the hold over that can be than figured to Moa elevtion correction specialy on those steep angle up hill and down hill shots. Just simply figre out your setting and lock it in for teh bullet your shooting it does all the work for you !

The truth will be in the pudding his weekend as I am walking my 7mm out to some steep angles 30 plus from 500 to 1000 yards where I will try this out and see if the claim to fame is what it says. I have know doubt it will be I have measured out some areas and manualy calculated teh drop plus arch and the elite 1500 is bang on ...

The best thing is and I have tried it it will infact pick up game sized figures to a true 1000 yards and will pin objects easy to 1500 yards, thats impressive for a rangefinder, my old one was looking for things at 400 and jumping all over!

Everyone needs one of these little gadgets, specialy the long range hunting folk!
 
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I have one of the original 1500s without the angle features. To say I love it would be an understatement. LoL The 9V battery lasts a long time and I have ranged deer out to beyond 800 yards with it. The longest "target" I have ever ranged was a rock cliff face over 1800 yards away.
 
store I work in sells them for $489

they're a great unit, I used to own one. Now use a Leica 1200 because it's got brighter optics and smaller size.
 
FWIW I was looking at them in the S.I.R.(Cabela's) calogue yesterday. $430 for the Elite 1500 unit. If I was to buy one it would be that. But honestly, if your shots are inside 350 yards and you are shooting anything from a .270Win to a .300Mag, what the hell do you need one for?
 
mikeelliot said:
Jeez, in the prairie its hard to tell the difference between 500 yards and 900 yards. When there is nothing to use as a reference I am totally lost.
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You know it is!! I was in Winterpeg last week, and driving the flats trying to guess the distance than couning poles and on teh odometer! I was off by Kms guess the straight streaches!

Also those flat fields as you say 500 at 1000 look the same, they honestly do.

2 years ago up the North White River, I was often fooled judging the goats in the hills, the mountains make things hard to judge as well. It makes it hard when you can see kms of back ground
 
todbartell said:
do you know what the difference between 350 yards & 450 yards looks like, 100% of the time? :)
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No.


I've had a couple of situations, where knowing the yardage would have helped.

The first was a very wide, heavy whitetail buck that I saw far down a big powerline. I ran down the line as fast as I could to cut the distance and threw myself down onto the ground, flipped out the bipod legs. I had just enough time to get a bead, guess the range and hold-over... I think I held like 8" to 12" over his back. I fired right before he entered the trees.
I never touched that buck.
After walking down to check for blood, tracks etc, I realized the yardage was a lot more then anything I have ever shot at. I used a GPS to measure the distance. If I recall correctly it was something like 510 yards.
I was shooting the .30-06 with 165gr BTSP Hornadys that clock 2850fps MV; a great shooting bullet, but maybe not for that distance.

The second time was when I saw Black Angus, in the spring. But that had more to do with the fact I had the wrong rifle/cartridge/bullet that day. I had my 8x57 with 220gr slow-pokes. If I had been packing a .30-06, .338WM etc, or a lighter faster bullet for my 8x57, I could have taken the shot. I used the GPS to "range" the distance and found it was almost exactly 300 yards.

Sure, I could use a Range Finder... but I also like having $425 in my jeans.
 
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I do not want to make you guy envious but this is my range finder, notice the fine increments for the lazer settings. Cost about $19.95 plus tax.


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srupp said:
LEICA 1200 dont even wast your $$$$ or time with anything else...

Steven
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An employee at Cabellas told me the Leica has superior optics, and you are paying for that, but that as a rangefinder, its the range finding technology that matters, and that the Bushnell elite is superior in that regard. Any merit to that position?
 
Grizzlypeg said:
An employee at Cabellas told me the Leica has superior optics, and you are paying for that, but that as a rangefinder, its the range finding technology that matters, and that the Bushnell elite is superior in that regard. Any merit to that position?
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The optics and rangefinding capabilities of the Leica I own, are better than that of the Elite, I used to own.:)

Elites are good rangefinders, though- Just don't get them too wet...;)
 
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