The best compact laser rangefinder on the market

Not sure what you want to use the range finder for. 1000-1500 yards is what most products offer. For hunting 800 yards is a long way to shoot.

Leica is the one of the best in the market. Most Leica owner owns one and never upgrades (unlike Bushnell owners).

Keep in mind that your hands will not be stable to support ranging an object with a size of a school bus beyond 500 yards. For you to range >1500 yards you will need a tripod.
 
Read a review that placed the Swarowski best, bar nothing, and the Leica as the best value, based on it's performance being very near the Swar. , but several hundred dollars less. Then there were the rest.

I have an older Leica 800, and feel that I want for nothing with it. It'll last me a very long time, unless I feel flush some day, and get the urge to spend.

Cheers
Trev
 
I was playing with my buddies Swaro today alongside my Leica 900 scan. Bad mistake.:redface: Mine has always been good enough, but doesn't begin to compare. Another friend came to the same conclusion with his 1200 Leica.
 
Good luck with 2k!

Swarovski hands down in the monocular line. Leica is impoving but still not there. Their first series of 900/1200 were ergnomic nightmares.

In the bino line, Leica...too bad Swarovski hasn't started making them. Maybe 2008
 
I was getting a lot of 1800 and change readings with a Swarovski, granted that was on snow covered hillsides. I never really tried for maximum distance, since I was already depressed.
 
Leice for sure. I've used the compact and their binos with an integrated RF and they were both incredible.

My Yardage Pro Quest is a nice clear optic, but unlike its advertised claims of working to 1200M, I have never got mine to work beyond 350. Bushnell are crap
 
Obtunded said:
Leice for sure. I've used the compact and their binos with an integrated RF and they were both incredible.

My Yardage Pro Quest is a nice clear optic, but unlike its advertised claims of working to 1200M, I have never got mine to work beyond 350. Bushnell are crap
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I found the same thing. A buddy bought the Bushnell and it wouldn't range a big red hip roof barn at 600. It went back that day. My Leica 900 scan didn't have any problem. Even my Leica is crap compared to the Swaro though.:( For about 1/3 the price I'll suffer through.
 
Just got my new Swav. WOW, that thing can range. grassy hillsides to 1800yds no problem. A house on a hillside 1900yds first click. A light coloured house is 'reflective' to a rangefinder but still....

I would like to see 2000yds on grassy targets but need to go to another location.

I loved my Leica 800. For its design parameters, it was superb. I am sure th newer models are equally great.

The Bushnell Elite 1500 will range hillsides and houses to around 1200yds in ideal conditions. Insider 1000yds, as good as my Leica which was surprising.

For those needing a 600 to 1000yds rangefinder, the Elite should fit your needs.

With more money, definitely go Leica.

For the Ferrari of the rangefinder world, Swav.

For conditions that none of the above rangefinders will work in or to go beyond 2000yds, a WILD optical rangefinder. Swiss precision and optics. I can range as far as I could ever want to go.

Jerry
 
mysticplayer said:
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For conditions that none of the above rangefinders will work in or to go beyond 2000yds, a WILD optical rangefinder. Swiss precision and optics. I can range as far as I could ever want to go.

Jerry
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I used one of those back in the day, but is far from compact. Coincidence rangefinders are the best, and if you're carrying something that would reach out to 2k, most certainly you'll need a spotter.... the weight is not too much then, as the spotter needs some exercise too :p
 
I have the 800m Leica from a few years ago which is great. The new ones seem to be even better and more compact though.

Excuse my ignorance, but why would anyone need to range out to 2km? :eek: Surely for sporting purposes even 1000-1200m is pushing the realms of usefulness?
 
The ORB said:
Excuse my ignorance, but why would anyone need to range out to 2km? :eek: Surely for sporting purposes even 1000-1200m is pushing the realms of usefulness?
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Cause some of us shoot that far and you need accurate ranging to adjust for drop.

1000yd BR rifles will group in the 3" to 6" range so going further accurately is not out of the question nowadays.

A mile isn't that far anymore...
Jerry
 
eltorro said:
I used one of those back in the day, but is far from compact. Coincidence rangefinders are the best, and if you're carrying something that would reach out to 2k, most certainly you'll need a spotter.... the weight is not too much then, as the spotter needs some exercise too :p
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i've still got mine, but the one i've got mounts to a geodesic tripod- but the incidences between 1k and 2k are like 1/16th of a turn on the rangefinder wheel- i think it's really accurate to about 800m, then your error factors begin to show up really badly- like about 2 meters at 2k- but if you're going to go coincidence, go wild/lietz-i've got the model that unclips to a 6x monocloir
 
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