I only had part of a day to play with it today so I drove to the edge of town where I could overlook a desert area. According to the manual, it can read out to 2500 yards and give you a ballistic solution out to 1400. I was able to range out to 1616 yard on a white pipe gate. The gate was approximately with the sun at my back. I stood on top of my tool box and used shooting sticks to stabilize it.
I was able to get a ballistic solution out to 1229 yards on a horse trailer. I could not get a ballistic solution beyond 1229 yards. I had no problem ranging a rider on a horse at 318 yards, saguaro cactus out to 700. I ranged a scrubby palo verde tree at 1466 but got no solution.Īt one point I was ranging various things and it inexplicably quit giving me ranges. I couldn’t even get a large tree at 150 yards. I waited a minute for it to time out and started over. I tried several times to get a large while water tank which proved to be 1229 yards away. I had to put it in “Far” mode before I could get this. I was not able to get a large pile of asphalt millings behind it. I thought that the bright sun was keeping it from working. Up to this point, all my ranging had been with the sun predominantly to my back. I spun around and ranged to within 20 degrees of the afternoon sun.
I was impressed that it could do this in bright sun! I was able to get street signs out to 1185 and a tin roof at 1065. I tried to range a number of items at longer ranges but the 1616 yard gate was the most distant thing I got a reading on. I tried to range a Robinson R22 flying towards me. I would not give me a reading, even when it passed within 200 yards of me. I haven’t compared the ballistic solutions that I got to my known dope yet but that is next. I would like to get out again next week and use it where I can find more intermediate (1000-1400 yards) targets to see where the ballistic solution part of this rangefinder really cuts out. I was to see how it does in poor light too!Īt this point I am reserving judgment but I don’t like how complicated it is and the fact that it just quit working at one point bothered me. It reaches out better than any other range finder I have tested here but I didn’t get anywhere near the 2000 yd readings that Joel did.
I took some photos of the stuff I ranged and will get them added to this a little later. The BR2 told me I needed 11.7 MOA and my Shooter program told me 13.4 (I think). I had two targets up so I shot one with each. I finally decided to double check all my inputs and found that I had put in the velocity of the 130 grain load but the BC of the new 140 Hybrid.
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