OK we’ve tested our Simmons rangefinder. And here it is against my like Edisto. While calculate that out comes to fifty-seven point eight three yards. This came up to 58 they said of course. This thing doesn’t do fractions. Or decimals so one thing it does power down very quickly so. Irun outside take a shot but. Imight get back in here it’s its already powered down. Iguess I’ll make the make. This thing last longer. And here’s what my disco came up with. And so far at least. It modest ranges this thing seems to be right on the money. Ishot a couple of these. All seems to be within plus. Or minus a yard which is damn sure going to be accurate enough for your Bo pistol. Or rifle I think a lot of strange is like ‘fuck yards probably about. What it’s a lot of that perception. We had a gun range inside of a tree row. Everybody swore that was 400 yards. It wasn’t it was only a hundred but having everything in.
That tree row and what’s the target frame way down there. You know it’s really three percent law. You know wait it’s our first quick test of the Simmons tilt intelligence 600 rangefinders. And so far I’m happy. Now I’m going to go up find me a little lanyard put on there. This is like okay but. Ithink I’m gonna take a shot. Some Kydex you know I’m gonna take a shot at making a case for this it’s electronic, so I’m not sure. How much of that heat. Ican expand its plastic I’m not sure. How much heat I can expose to might be able to insulate a little bit tape. Something or I might have to make model in case we’re gonna give it a shot.
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Fred here welcome back to your obsession channel in. This episode we will be taking a look at the simmons laser rangefinder 600 so stay tuned so. You astute viewers probably notice the price tag 49 97 let. You’re not gonna be able to walk. It to the store this for $49. This was incorrectly marked but. They priced that’s. What I got it for it does not cost $49. It costs twice as much as a matter of fact. You go to I went Walmart. You go into Dick’s you’re probably gonna pay about a hundred. And twenty dollars for this so. You get a good deal like. Idid so I had no intention of purchasing this. You know in my mind. Iwanted one of these eventually but. Ihad no plans on purchasing it at anytime soon but. Ican’t walk away from. That but uh I did let the people. You know they scanned. It on the back it had the correct price everr 119 but then.
They had to give that price but. They also said where are the rest of those. They took a ball off the shelf so anyway let’s unpack age. Ialready opened it up a little bit. And been playing with. Ican give you a pretty decent review so here. You can see it’s just uh plastic. You know it doesn’t have a rubberized coating like the. More expensive ones. You can see it has the viewing port. You view out of it that’s the back end. It alleges like deep in there. Where the laser thing is. This is a laser rangefinder. And that’s what you look in there’s also a button right on the top. You press to activate.
And then you put your little box on the target. And press the button. It will give you a range in yards. These does have a compartment. You go ahead and put a coin in. That screw unscrew it takes the cap off. Or the cover off you put a 9-volt battery in there. This requires a 9-volt battery. And does not come with. Ican’t complain about $49 but uh for a hundred. And nineteen it should come with a 9-volt battery. You usually know most people don’t have 9-volt batteries later in the house so letting you know. You need a 9-volt battery for this so also there’s a hole for lanyard right there. You can see it didn’t come with a lanyard kind of strange but.
It did come with was a case. This case proudly says Simmons on. It but um how Crowe. You know it’s a padded case. Nothing to write home about it’s a nylon mesh as a belt loop right there. You have to run your belt through. It not a very high quality the stitching on here is only single stitch so it’s I’ll stand up for stand up to medium workout a medium workout but it’s not made for taking a lot of abuse there’s a little tag in here. That says Made in China which. This is made in China. And so is this basically is the cheapest rangefinder. You can find it really is on the low end but. You know Lane laser rangefinders. All do the same thing what they do is shoot out a laser. Or light at an object. That light bounces back. And comes back here. Now the speed of light is known to the electronics of the year so based on how long.
It takes to go bounce off. And come back it can calculate instantly. What the range of whatever you’re sighting in is really cool. Most people use this for hunting you know. They go ahead and get the range so. They could go ahead. And calibrate their sighting device. One on a bow for bow hunters they’d like to use. These a lot you got a lot of drops with a bow. And for long range gun shooting for hunting and things like. That so let’s go over the specs really quick. This is the black version as. You can see right here. It does come in camo as well. Now there is a better version out there. Where things change a little bit but. They have that cost. That can also take an account the tilt so. If you’re up high in a shooting down. It can calculate and give. You a better distance based on the angle. That it’s being held. And it’s called the tilt version.
It would say tilt on. It somewhere here now but again. This is probably the best basic laser rangefinder it’s very accurate it’s accurate within. One yard so that’s pretty good. And its operating operation ranges between 10 yards. And 600 yards now I’ve been able to get. It to work down to 5 yards but. All the instructions. All the stuff online says 10 to 600 yards. You look through this which I’ll let. You see through here very shortly the optics are set to 4 times so. When you’re looking through there. You have 4 times magnification. And it’s its not like extremely bright it’s okay but. You expect this is a bottom-of-the-line rangefinder. It has a liquid crystal display in their so. You hit the button the display comes up. And you’ll see you know a battery indicator.
And you’ll see the amount of yards you’ll see the little Y. It again it’ll give. You the range so basically the way. You operate you hit the button. You wake you see the LCD come up then. You put the little box. What you want to get the range up. And then it again it will give. You the range for that thing and then. It will automatically shut down in 30 seconds it’s supposed to be weather resistant I’m not quite sure about. You can see the seam right there are the better ones have a good rubber coating all around them but. It does say it’s weatherproof. It does come with that case. It weighs 77 ounces. It on my scale with the battery in. It was only like seven ounces no man again. It uses a 9-volt battery did not come with. It is made in China by slave labor for the unbelievable low price of $11990 we’ll sequence between yards. And meters whatever it’s blinking whichever. You know you want then hit the button. And it’ll be set to.
That I’m leaving it in yards that’s sort of what I’m used to. And no all right without further ado let’s go out to the backyard. This out well we’re outside my backyard there’s Carson having fun not listening and here’s the gate right here that’s in my backyard so let’s figure out. This gate is away, so I’m gonna go ahead. And grab the rangefinder. And here and I’m gonna go ahead hold. It up to the lens like so. You gotta sort of hit the button to wake. It up is what it seems. And then I’m gonna go ahead. And press it to get the range. You can see it’s 19 yards. That simple that quick. You could also see the battery indicator to the bottom left.
You could also change. Us two meters by pressing and holding the button until. Iguess the yard indicator blanks. Or the meter indicator blinks. And then you choose red the. You want is blinking and. It so there you go let’s see where’s Carson see. You can see it’s harder on dark animals, so he’s 24 yards away let’s try. It again 23 and remember it’s accurate within 1 yard let’s see. What he’s up to their Carson. What are you doing get out of their get out of their get out of there. What are you doing so let’s go over the pros. And cons really quick the prose is. It is value price one of the cheapest range laser rangefinders. You can find it’s very accurate just as accurate is the expensive ones.
It is very easy to use. And the battery life is very good. Iread a whole crap load of reviews before I’m doing mine so. Ithink thank all the people who did reviews. And wrote reviews on. This prior, but the people have gone out to 15 hunting trips with. These things and still the battery was good cons well. It doesn’t have that nice rubberized texture. All around so I’m sure. If your hands are wet. It can get kind of slippery. Or wearing gloves it’s probably very easy to drop. Because it’s just hard plastic with very little texture the. They put a lanyard hole in there. They didn’t include a little lanyard what’s up with. And it’s kind of hard to read in low-light. It is liquid crystal it’s not very bright there in the viewfinder so in low-light. It starts getting very difficult to read. And the other thing.
That the last thing is. You could go back in. This video and look really closely. Iwas showing you inside here there’s a speck of dust in their things like. That drive me absolutely crazy it’s sort of on the bottom a little piece of dirt in there. Ican’t clean that out. This is a little sealed. Idon’t want to break open. This thing and it doesn’t affect. Any way but you know things like. That just you know just drive. Me crazy so the build quality. You know it wasn’t built in a completely dust free environment. Because a piece of dirts in there so those are the cons. This is the cheapest. One of the cheapest range finders. You can get and it’s very accurate. What it’s supposed to do so. Istill highly recommend. It I’m going to give it a out of ten. It is probably the best value rangefinder.
You can find so thank. You very much for joining me here at the gear obsession Channel. Ireally appreciate every friend viewer subscriber. You have a great evening and I’ll see. You again on Friday take.
alright guys. This is going to be a first look video on the simmons rangefinder. You can look up the specs. Whatever it comes with. This nice little case it’s super lightweight. It for Christmas so far I’m loving it I’ve never had a rangefinder. This was on mega deal at Cabala’s for Black Friday came with a free set of binoculars which. Iforgot to bring with. And they’re not the highest quality, but they’re good decent um I’m gonna try to let. You guys see so you can tell oh there. We go so 16 yards there. We go you’re still not getting the full view of what you see. You look through this I’m not gonna say it’s the best. Or the clearest and honestly it’s not priced. That way but for someone like. Imean that’s pretty clear. Icould hold it steadies let’s see 53 yards. This isn’t great video guys but 52 so it’s accurate to within 1 yard so far it’s been awesome. You click this button quickly oh. It takes one 9-volt battery. You unscrew that screw right here. And put a 9-volt in their super lightweight. That case that comes with. It protects the lenses. Everything um but back to. What I was saying if. You start ranging things. That are farther away. It doesn’t give you a reading because. You just click the button don’t worry. It doesn’t suck you have to do. It seems like when something’s further away is hold. This down a little bit longer like. Iwas just going like. This like push I was like. What the heck why isn’t. It give me a reading well. You have to hold the button down until. You see the reading so. Iwas just clicking like.
This so see how nothing’s coming up. You have to do is hold down then. It shows you 2:38 that’s a click. It didn’t show hold. It 273, so I for one got kind of worried about. Ifirst got out here but. Ifigured it out I’ve been happy with. And it’s been ranging things really far away. And really good it can go to 600 on a highly reflective object. And like 400 on a tree. Some other things like. That but I’ve gotten readings at like 500 off of like a tree out here so maybe it’s the light sunny today but so far it’s been super nice it’s super lightweight. You can fit it in your pocket the clarity is good in. This good enough it’s a six times magnification. Ithink but anyways that’s the first look at the simmons rangefinder. More to come I’m still kind of testing it out there’s a good view of. It but so far it’s been really great for the price guys. And a pair of binoculars.
It was under $100 this is on sale right. It sportsman’s for 159 but for Black Friday. That cheap plus a pair of free binoculars so you’ve got a spot here right there for a loop lanyard neck thing whatever but. It fits in your pockets so easy. Idon’t know like even want to mess with. That but anyways just wanted to show. It off it’s awesome
You spend a lot of time on the range as. Whether it’s a site in a new rifle. You just want to spend the afternoon shooting at. Some targets or you’re a hunter. You spend a lot of time out in the field pursuing game. One important accessory. You should always have with. You is a good quality rangefinder hey guys its Jerry. Once again here at hilltop firearms training center in Dover Tennessee. And today we’re going to be looking at the loopholed rx 650 the Arctic 615 really easy to use. One button power is an omen. And allows you to change between modes so. If you’re accustomed to ranging targets. And meters you prefer yards. You can change it out really easy fully multi-coated optic with a six time magnification so. You bring it up range your target that’s gonna bring. That image in six times closer. It makes a little bit easier to range the actual object.
That you’re trying to get the distance on let’s take a closer look at. Some other features we’ll do a little table-top. And I’ll just kind of explain. It works with living so let’s talk about reflective targets as. You can see we have plywood backers way out there. We go out there we staple our targets up. That would be known as a reflective target. It is a clean smooth unobstructed surface. Now the laser rangefinder is going to see. That object say a little bit different. Then an inanimate object such as a tree you’re gonna get your signal you’re going to get your range but. It will look at it slightly different.
It is a difference in its texture a. Few other things that can actually affect. It would be a shiny surface is highly reflective. And easier to range. Than say a dull surface think of a black roof. You have a black roof a lot of the laser as. That roof is going to be absorbed into. Whereas such as a surface such as. This it’s actually going to reflect back off of. It quicker now think of. It as in perspective with game. If you’re in the woods. You see a deer the deer has a hide. That their game coat is like a light color like tan is going to be much. More reflective than say a dark colored animal such as a bear. Because a lot of the surface. That the light of the laser is actually reflecting off of is going to be absorbed in. Some fur so it’s really interesting how. That works lighting conditions haze rain fog other things going on in the environment can affect the lasers accuracy but.
That is with any piece of equipment such as a laser rangefinder okay guys so quickly. More time and explain. How to change between yard. Or meter mode simply with the unit in the powered off position simply depress the button here on the top for approximately 10 seconds after which. You will be able to toggle from yards to meters. Or vice versa you figure out which. You want or the power button so pretty quick. Ihave mine set for yardage but. Iknow a lot of shooters. That come up here do prefer the meters so. You have a choice once again. You do have the ocular adjustment for the clarity depending on your vision really well-made. Ijust like the simplicity of. If you’re out there hunting the last thing you need is. Some other piece of complicated gear simply bring the thing up their range. It releases the button there. You got your yards now here’s.
Something that’s really cool about. This the design of this oh wow say. You have let’s say you’re out hunting you spotted tears across a field. And the deer is moving hold the power button down on the object. And move along with. It will continue to range as the range changes. That feature so you can range a moving object with. This not a lot of range finders have. That feature I also like the construction of the rangefinder itself it’s got. This nice little rubber piece over the top gives. You a good positive grip. If it’s a it’s raining or your hands are quite slippery total vocal adjustment here four different eyes of course. You know depending on your vision. It is powered by one single battery.
It comes out quite easy but you’ve got. This little flip up cap the last. Iwas using was quite difficult it’s powered by. One of the CR two batteries very commonly used in a lot of cameras really nicely designed. Iknow it’s the little details. That sometimes it kind of gets to. This is cool because after. You snug it down then just flip. And you’re good to go that’s actually kind of cool you’ll also notice a little area here. You can attach a lanyard to which. Iwould prefer to have a lanyard on. It in case I was to drop. You could hang it around your neck. And just simply use. It as them you know the monocular. It is in fact alright guys as well. You get a really cool little carry case with the loop Holden’s rx 650 well-made little design. It also allows you to attach. It to your range bag. If you’re out in the field. You can attach some gear well design little carry case to keep the thing protected. What I really thought was just funny. And kind of neat and ingenious actually was.
This a simple little onboard way of carrying a spare battery. Ijust that’s one of the little details that’s kind of stood out to. You least expect and the battery is dead. You can always keep a spare. One onboard according to the owner’s manual the battery life is like 5000 actuations so. Each time you know. This thing approximately you’re gonna get about 5000 times. You can use and range. Something which is pretty impressive I’ve had. Some other range finders in the past. It seemed like they really use the battery life quick. Ihave not had time to test. That but I do like. That feature alright guys. That wraps up our review of the loopholed rx 650 laser rangefinders. You are in the market for a high quality. Yet affordable laser rangefinder.
That is full of features check out the link below it’ll take. You to optics Planets website there is also a special coupon. You can put in to save. More money on an already great price guys. You for watching as always. We will see you soon on the range.
hi this is justice. The Burt Lancaster archery supply here to talk to. You about the new loopholed RX 1600. ITB r w with DN a laser rangefinder. We open the packaging up you’re gonna see. It comes with the rangefinder. And a heavy-duty Cordura nylon case you’re gonna get a shoulder strap a cr2 battery. And then the instruction manual gives. Everything you need to know. How to use the rangefinder. We open the rangefinder pack. Or case up you’re gonna see there is a little quick reference card gives. You a couple little things on how to use the rangefinder. Some different settings. That your lot you can do that’s just fits in. That little slot in the back of the ring in the back of the case. You can see that the rangefinder is extremely small its compact lightweight. And only weighs seven point eight ounces. It has a armor coated housing so it’s gonna be super rugged it’s a 100% waterproof so. You don’t have to worry about damaging it.
And in the rain weather. You drop it’s not gonna just shatter in there it’s got fully multi-coated optics so you’re gonna be able to it’s got best-in-class performance so you’re gonna be able to see in low-light conditions. And it’s got DNA the DNA stands for digitally enhanced accuracy. That gives you accuracy within a half yard on. Any color target so. If you’re arranging a black target. Something like that you’re not gonna have a problem hitting the hitting. And getting the range on. It the TBR is true ballistic ranging so. That does is gives you the true shoot to distance for the target so as. If you’re shooting at an angled shot. If the typical rangefinder says to. That it’s 62 yards the actual shoot to distance on. That angle whether it’s uphill. Or uphill or downhill might not be 62 yards. You might have to cut five yards on. Something like you shoot.
It for 58 yards or 57 yards. It also has TBR with W which the W stands for wind so. This is for rifle shooters actually gives. You the whole laughs distance on a 10 mile an hour wind out at a certain distance. Whether out to eight hundred yards. You can actually range out to sixteen hundred yards on a reflective target with. This rangefinder so you’ll have plenty of room for any sort of target within. Whether it’s a deer the 3d target. Whatever it is you’re gonna be able to hit. And the minimum range of six yards here you’re not going to really have to compensate for anything closer. That there’s three right ranging reticles. What you’re going to do is just hit the mode button go to go through. And change the radical to whichever. You prefer you can also change. That change the whether you’re reading it in yards. Or meters with the mode button as well. And then there’s the power button.
That gives you the ability to. You click it turns. More time you click. It’s going to give. You your range reading on the target. That you’re aiming at as. You can see it’s a super economical design fits in the palm of your hand easy to bring up to your eye click. And range do whatever. You need to you have an adjustable eyepiece here just so. You can adjust it to your eye. Whether it’s clear or blurry clearer. Or blurry you can adjust. That by twisting the eyepiece. You liked this video please hit. That like button you want to see. More videos like this please subscribe to your YouTube channel. You have any other questions please visit. Us at Lancaster archery calm.
What’s going on guys I’m John. Another product review for you today we’re looking at the Ranger 1500 range finder by vortex let. Me break this video down for you real quick we’re going to unbox. It we’re going to physically look at. And then I’m going to field-test the thing we’re going to look at durability accuracy distance capabilities we’re going to check out. It does in low-light. And then I’m going to wrap. It up with pros cons. Where to get how much. It costs and that’s. It so here we go okay the vortex Ranger 1500 is still in the box let’s check. It out inside we’ve got a soft sided case with a rangefinder in. That aside also a little cheat card here for a slope. And drop got the manual got a allen wrench the neck lanyard. One lithium cr2 battery. Ithink that’s it alright lets’s take a look at. This thing it’s really pretty small 39 inches long 3 inches wide. And it’s only 7 point 7 ounces you’ll notice there’s a rubber coating on. It green keeps. It a little bit more durable. And actually gives you a better grip on the thing the lenses are fully multi-coated the front. You have the 22 millimeter objective lens.
This rangefinder has a magnification of 6. We look on the back you’ll see the eye cup here. This is actually you manually focus. This rangefinder below that’s. Where the battery goes let’s throw. That in quick just grab a coin drop the battery in a couple other things. If you’re going to put the lanyard on. You can see there’s a couple little holes here. And that’s where the neck lanyard goes right there. And on the side there’s a utility clip so. You want to put this on your pack. You want to put it in your pocket your belt um that’s. What that’s for and. You can actually use the eleanor wrench. Ishowed you can take. You can flip it to the other side depending on. If you’re right or left-handed. You don’t like you can just pull. It rights off on the bottom there’s the tripod socket. You want to use this thing with the tripod. And then on the top pretty simple there’s just two buttons the.
One closest to your. Isays measure the one further from your is menu. This rangefinder has. All rings that seal the product against moisture so essentially it’s waterproof it’s also fogged proof alright. You have the battery in to turn. You have to do is hit the measure button. Once in the display will pop up I’m going to show. You the display right. Now it’s not a great picture but kind of gives. You an idea once the display is showing you just have to hit the measure button the second time. That will give you your basic measurement so. Once to turn once to measure that’s. This rangefinder also has a scan mode so instead of. Once to turn it wants to take a measurement. You can do once to turn. And then hold the measure button down. What you can do is just scan.
Everything the rangefinder hits. It will continually give. You updated distances as far as getting into the menu. And changing some of the settings. That kept it pretty simple so the second button here furthest from your eye is the menu button. What you do is hold. It down for 4 seconds 1 2 3 4. And then you’re going to be in the menu mode. And there’s only really three options of things. You can change the first. You can change it from meters to yards. Or yards to meters the second thing you can do is change from HCD mode which is their angle compensating mode to the l OS mode which is just the line-of-sight mode. And the third thing you can do is just change the brightness of the display there’s three different brightness es so there. You go that’s the physical rundown of. This rangefinder we also just went through the basics of functionality we’re going to get into.
Some of those a little bit. We field test the product the first thing I looked at was the waterproof claim. What I did was submerged. This rangefinder underwater multiple times. It at the beginning of the field test. Iwanted to see it would crap out on. Me right away something would happen as the field testing went on but. You know what it checked out okay. That being said I wouldn’t take. This thing scuba diving on your next trip to the Caribbean but. It gets wet in field. Iwouldn’t sweat it the next thing I did was checked out the anti-fog properties. This thing is purged with nitrogen. It has the waterproof. All rings so no moisture is supposed to get inside of.
What I did was I wanted to shake. It up a little bit and go from extreme cold to warm back to cold so. This thing in the freezer. Ihad no issue whatsoever with internal fall game. Now don’t be confused. These companies say anti-fog. It means internal fogging not external fogging like the fog. You get on the outside of the glass. You breathe on you go from warm to cold. Something like I did get a little bit of fog on the glass doing. That as with all optics but. What they’re talking about here is the internal fogging no issues whatsoever ok guys before. Itest out the distance in the accuracy it’s important for you to know. That vortex advertises. This range finder has distance capabilities for non-reflective targets at 750 yards. And reflective targets at 1500 yards in. This works at angles is extreme as plus. Or minus 60 degrees so. Istarted small looking at basic accuracy. Ipulled the tape I took readings at 50 yards 40 yards 30 20 10.
And 9 yards every reading was spot-on including the 10 yards but. Idropped down to 9 yards no reading whatsoever the next thing I wanted to do was test out the distance capabilities so. Irecruited the team an. We found ourselves a better vantage point. We started pumping some distances out measurements can be taken two different ways let’s use. This tree as an example the first. One is the L OS or line-of-sight mode. When you’re in the L o s mode think about a line going straight from your eyeball right to the tree. And the rangefinder gave. Is a distance of 18 yards in an angle of negative 29 degrees switch to HCD mode which is the horizontal component distance. What the rangefinder does is.
It takes the line-of-sight measurement. And the angle it does the math. It gives you the true horizontal distance. If you’re hunting from a tree stand. Some extreme elevations. This is the distance. That you’re going to want to use. You take a shot in this scenario the tree had horizontal distance 15 yards. Me rattle off some other horizontal distances. We looked at the first object. We looked at was this well cap. We were unable to pick up in HCD reading and here’s why in line-of-sight mode. We arranged it at 11 yards but. It had an extreme angle of negative 56 degrees so. You do the math that distance would have come in under 10 yards in HCD mode in. This range fighter doesn’t pick up objects under 10 yards so here’s the rule of thumb with. This product if you’re close to an object but you’re unable to pick up a distance. You can assume that it’s under 10 yards next. This wheelbarrow at 29 yards the decoy at 123 yards.
This road sign at 304 yards the shed at 5:17 the tree line at 9:36. This blue silo at 1435 yards. We went back and cross-referenced the distance with. Some satellite imagery. We found that the actual distance was. One thousand four hundred. And thirty-three yards which was only two yards off vortex claims a variance of plus. Or minus three yards at. Any object fifteen hundred yards away. And our two yards off was well within the margin of error next. We tried another silo but with no luck. We couldn’t get a reading on the L o s mode. Or the HDD mode what we found out. We cross-referenced the satellite imagery again was.
This silo was over eighteen hundred yards away so outside of the capabilities of. This product all right you’re probably saying that’s good. Everything but John. Idon’t hunt silos I don’t hunt wheelbarrows. Ihunt non-reflective soft targets like deer bear elk. Iwas wondering the same thing so. Iwent out recruited. Some friends to help. Me not only was I able to connect on multiple animals under 100 yards but. Iwas also able to connect on cows at five fifty-five six forties. And seven hundred and eleven yards the next thing I wanted to do was test. This product in a low light scenario so. Iset my decoy up at fifty-nine yards. Itook my first reading at sunset. Itook my second reading thirty minutes after sunset which typically is the end of shooting hours the evening. Idid the low-light testing was just a.
Few days after the new moon so. Ididn’t get much help from the moon as far as additional light. Iwas easily able to make out the decoy. And range it 10 minutes after shooting light 20 minutes after shooting light as. You can see I ran out of camera light but. Iwas still able to pick up the decoy. And range and then 30 minutes after shooting late again with no camera light. Iwas able to just pick up the white on the belly of the whitetail so. This thing had low light capabilities almost a full hour after sunset. Or a half an hour after legal shooting hours just a disclaimer don’t hunt after legal shooting hours as. It is illegal but I just did. This to show how good. It worked in low-light the last thing I want to do is just touch on the scan mode again. What you can do is hold the measure button in. And just scan in everything the rangefinder hits it’s going to continually keep pumping out distances for you.
This works great in two different scenarios. One trying to pick up distances on really far away objects. It doesn’t take much. That measure button to bump. It a little bit if it’s on a tripod just hitting the button will bump. It enough you can miss a target completely at 12. Or 13 hundred yards. If you’re in scan mode. You can keep hovering around. That object until you get a good reading the second scenario. You guys have all been there you’re sitting in your stand you’re trying to range multiple trees around your stand to get an idea. How far away everything is there’s. One tree you’ve been trying to hit but every time. You range it you’re hitting some of the branches. Or brush and foreground again. If you’re in scan mode hold. That button down you can just hover until.
You find that hole. It gives you a reading right through to. That tree you’ll be good to go. All right I think that’s. Everything so let’s move on to pros cons. How much where to get the thing okay guys let’s talk about the pros the distance is checked out fine the accuracy checked out fine the angle compensation seemed to work great. You guys saw we had no issues with water. Ireally like the fact. That the display offered three different brightness es depending on how dark. Or light it is outside the scan mode was a cool feature in the utility clip is. Something that’s unique. That I’ll be taking advantage of. This fall ok let’s move over to cons the only possible issue. Ifound with this rangefinder is. If you’re that really wants a rangefinder that’s going to pick up objects less. That 10 yard mark you might want to look for something else otherwise. This rangefinder just checked out to be really solid ok guys I’m going to take.
One step further if you’re familiar with vortexes first range finder the Ranger 1000 after looking at countless reviews there were two things. That jumped off the page as potential negatives the first is customers weren’t thrilled. You had to push the button three times to get reading they fixed. That with this new rangefinder the 1500. You only have to do. Once to turn once to get a measurement. And the second thing is. Some people said the Ranger 1000 had a slower processor speed meaning you hit the button. You wait a little bit. And then you get your distance. Ihad no problems field testing the range of 1500. Ihit the button immediately got a distance no issues there. One of the limitations of. This video was I didn’t look at battery life whatsoever the good thing about. When you’re looking through the display on the rangefinder. It actually has a battery meter so. You guys can always see. What the battery life is on the rangefinder.
If for some reason this thing you know runs out of battery two. Or three months down the road I’ll put a comment below. This video to let you guys know. That hey the battery didn’t hold up alright so. Where do how much does. It cost a good thing to do would be to go over to Vortex’s website I’m going to leave the link below. This video in the information it’s always a good place to start but about four hundred. And eighty dollars and I’ve seen. It at Midway USA online Cabala’s Bass Pro Shop Sportsman’s Warehouse so. You can get it pretty much anywhere. You guys have local sports shops. That carry any of the vortex optics. They can get it for you to the last thing. Ido want to touch on is the warranty. That vortex has I usually don’t talk about warranties. Unless it’s a really good. This is a really good.
One so basically their VIP warranty says. If it’s got the vortex name on. It no receipts no registrations. Something goes wrong with. It to them, and they’re going to take care of. It hurts to lay out a lot of money for optics. Any optics not just. That kind of warranty to back. You can feel pretty good about making the one-time purchase. All right guys that’s. You liked the video make sure. You subscribe to the antlers core dot-com YouTube channel hit. That little red subscribe button we’ve been pumping out a video every two weeks for about the last seven months. And I’m going to take. One step further I’m going to give. You the $000 it costs to subscribe to my channel otherwise keep an eye out for my next video we’ll see.
To complete the programming we’ll use the measure. And menu buttons on top of the Ranger 1000 to begin simply press. And release the measure button briefly to bring up the display. Once the display is up press. And hold the menu button down for four seconds until the mode selection screen displays then release the button. Now you’re in the mode choice for HCD. Or l OS simply press the measure button briefly to toggle between HCD. And l OS press and released it’ll toggle back. And forth you in the mode choice. You prefer briefly press the menu button. It will save that setting now the display moves to the yards meters choice again simply press. And release the measure button briefly to toggle between yards. And meters once you’re in the mode. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. That setting the display. Now moves to the brightness choice use the measure button press.
And release briefly to toggle through three levels of brightness. Once you’re in the brightness. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. It the display now returns to HCD l OS. You have the settings. All set as you prefer. You can simply press. And hold the menu button for four seconds to save. These settings and exit the mode selection process. This can also be done at. Any time through the process well that’s. All there’s to know you’re. All set to take your Ranger 1000 out in the field.
hi I’m Casey McClatchy from Lancaster archery Supply. And I’m here to introduce a new product for 2018 from vortex optics. This is the Ranger 1300 a rangefinder new. This year that’s replacing last year’s model the vortex 1000. This product here is. One of my personal favorites. It will range all the way out to thirteen hundred yards with a minimum distance of nine yards. You can see as it out of the package here. It does come with a very nice carrying case as well as an ambidextrous belt clip here. You can put this on the left. Or the right depending on where. You prefer to carry. It also comes with a lanyard so. You prefer you can hang. It around your neck. And a third option you are doing ranging while standing still. It is threaded for a tripod on the bottom of the rangefinder there are two buttons here on. This rangefinder on the top there is a measuring button. And a menu button to turn. You need to do is hold down the measuring button. And a bright LCD will pop up. This readout is ideal for low-light conditions as well as for those type of people who have black readout just does not give enough contrast to the background in low light shadows shrubs tree lines things like.
It will range all the way from 9 yards out to 1300. This makes it ideal for. Both bow hunters and rifle hunters. Either a horizontal component distance which will account for any angles for tree stand hunters. Or hunting in high elevation. It also uses a secondary ranging technology called line of sight line of sight will accurately range for you out on flat distances for people who are hunting you know flatter terrain. This rangefinder it comes equipped with a 6x magnification which will give. Any shooter very clear visual on targets. All the way out to its thirteen hundred yard distance. Another very nice thing about. This rangefinder is as. You can see it has a very ergonomic grip to. It is waterproof sealed so. It will hold up through just about. Any kind of conditions. You can put it through on. That same note you do find conditions. You know this drops out of a tree. You drop it into a puddle. And the optics get fuzzy. This is equipped with the VIP warranty from vortex.
That means is this is an unconditional lifetime warranty. They will cover anything. That happens so strange finder for the life. You happen this range finder will range. All the way out to 315 degree fields of view along with. It will give you the option with. That red LCD readout. It has three different dimness options. And will give you the option to swap back. And forth between yards. Or meters depending on your preference. You liked this video feel free to give. Me a thumbs up you want to see. More videos like this subscribe to our YouTube. And for any other questions please visit. Us at Lancaster archery comm.
All right guys so vortex rangefinder Ranger 1800 supposed to be able to range from nine yards up to. It said 1800 yeah 1800 yards on reflective targets non reflective from 9 yards to 900 so open. This up take a look inside. Now I was playing around with a demo unit. It was crystal clear so I’m get. This one out play around with. It and try to show. You guys structure book need. That just hope I’m doing this with. One hand so my lanyard it’s cute my lumpy god bless teeth oh what’s in there. It is so menu measure little belt clip don’t. You guys be able to see inside. It and doesn’t really do. Anything but uh see. If we can’t get that to focus in a little bit. When we go out and play with. This a little bit later so go ahead. And get the battery in. And try to show you guys. This thing in action stay tuned things instruct in their pickup on the tree.
That barn can’t really read. It but eight hundred. And forty-nine yards 243 yards so. This thing gets out there pretty good. And it is pretty bright so despite. What the camera shown with the flare. Now you can also change. All of that a brightness. That is in the neighbor’s house so as. You can see it’s pretty nice. It should make things a little bit easier it’s stupid clear real clear setting. That tree so there it is for ducks Ranger 18 hunters. And I do want to note. That you can change the. How am I trying to say the measurements. And if I have to focus in on. This between yards and meters with the button here. Ihave it set on yards George meters. And there’s your brightness setting. That I was telling you about so probably could have turned. It up before you guys I’ll just keep.
It on the medium side in there it’s nice it’s got the battery level down there too so alright she’s just a close-up of. This card again just. Because in the beginning it wasn’t very clear so doesn’t in. Both no end in no way so. That comes with it Oh Maynard probably never use I’ll tell. You I really like the texture of. It rubbery it feels like it’s its really nice in your hands buttons. Idon’t know you can hear them click. Or not but it’s a good feel so does the knack. We shut off so you don’t have to worry about. You know turn it off turn. It on I piece is adjustable for focus how’s your little boy. Or excuse me here tripod male. If you want to get real fancy. All right I gotta so that’s. It I’ve enjoyed you know the video. Anybody looking to purchase. It I hope that helped clear. It up a little bit for you vortex Ranger 1800 so. You know like subscribe. And I will see you guys next time.
You as long-range shooting is becoming more popular getting accurate ranges is becoming more difficult as. You reach out with your rangefinder objects are harder to keep centered. And your shaking hands are magnified until. It is nearly impossible to focus on your target nikon has built a rangefinder with the best of. Both worlds all the features you’ve come to expect from a nikon rangefinder and distance. And stabilization in. One compact unit the monarch 3000 Offers image stabilized capabilities to ensure. You are hitting what you were aiming at handshake is eliminated to keep your target from getting lost at. That distance the monarch 3000 features a six times magnification viewfinder with a comfortable ergonomic exterior the monarch 3000 can be easily operated with just. One hand the rubberized exterior coating keeps. It from slipping out of your hands. Even in damp weather the coated optics are waterproof. And fog proof to give. You a clear image no matter the weather the optical coatings give. You a bright clear image. And the long eye relief. And wide field of view lets. You easily acquire your target automatic r5 manual levels of brightness options let the readings be visible no matter. How bright or dark the ambient light the real metric of performance is. How well how fast it works to gather data the internal lightning fast hyper read technology gives.
You fast ranging measurement. And data computation coupled with the nikon ID technology to give. You compensated range data for angle the monarch 3000 is an accurate. And fast tool to get. You on target quickly. And easily this award-winning rangefinder offers two standard measurement modes first target priority mode allows. You to range an object as small as a fence post. While distant target priority mode displays the range of the farthest target among a group of targets measured employing Nikon stabilized system vibrations of the image in the viewfinder caused by wind adrenaline cold. And other hand movements are reduced. And the irradiated laser is also aligned at the same time.
You can direct the laser onto the target faster. More easily the ease of measurement to a small target is greatly improved. All achieved by Nikon original technologies. That are a fusion of vibration reduction. And high performance measurement function. These technologies work together to reduce to one-fifth the amount of movement perceived through the eyepiece with a range of measurement between eight and three thousand yards the monarch 3000 rangefinders from Nikon is a great tool for any weapon with which. You might choose to hunt. And for just very little. More money you can upgrade to the Nikon black range X 4k with four thousand-yard capability. It isn’t stabilized like the monarch 3000.
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Everybody how to do a my name’s Eric remainder I’m here at the 2018 ata show in Indianapolis. Or at the night comm booth. Some amazing new products. One in particular this is the monarch 3000 stabilize the name says. This is a three thousand yard rangefinder with image stabilization in. It reduces hand movement by eighty percent. It is wind cold adrenaline has 89 degrees. You can go and range down top. Or bottom seven-and-a-half degree field of view has a new hyper read so. You will get your distance no matter the range. And point three seconds true target system priority in here so. You have a buck mixed in with a bunch of dozes. It is in front or behind. You can select first. Or second target priority system with. It has eight seconds of continuous ranging so. You don’t need to be pushing the button to arrange. Everything push hold. It will continuously scan. And again this goes out to 3000 yards inclined decline technology has. All the bells and whistles MSRP of. This is going to be for 1995 so a very competitive price point for all the whistles inherit that’s going to be an amazing product make sure. You come by 2018 shot show there’s gonna be a lot. Than Nikon reducing.
Hey guys Sam here this is going to be a real quick first look first impressions type short review of the new BR 2500 a ballistic range finder from g7 okay the unit itself is about 5 by 5 by 2 inches thick it’s a little over 14 ounces. It is ip55 water-resistant so basically. That means is it is a fairly waterproof but. You can’t submerge now I’ve been told by gun works. It will withstand rain no problem. It will stand condensation. You know hot to cold things like. Ihaven’t tested yet that’s coming up soon so. It runs on one cr123 battery. You access right here in the front very easy to replace it’s rated for eight hours of continuous use. Idon’t know that translates into number of ranges but. Ihave not any problem with battery life it’s a seven power optic. It actually has very good glass in. It as far as quality its optically speaking it’s very high quality. Any problem with seeing stuff as far as.
Ican see at least at seven power. It has a focus ring right here on the back so. You can focus in on your target. It comes with a tethered cap to protect the ocular side the ocular side has clicked detent so. You can run and out so. You wear glasses no problem. You can just run you don’t. You can run and it’ll stay in place. It has a tether hook to. It the carrying case has a retractable deal inside of. You could hook to you pull. It out of the carrying case is kind of got. This spring tension. You can pull you get in a hurry. Or get excited whatever. And let go of it’ll stay hooked to. That pouch so that’s kind of cool feature. Another cool thing about.
This rangefinder is. It has a built in quarter twenty socket right in the bottom of. You can hook a tripod head. Whatever I have my detachable Manfrotto plate hooked into. Ican put it rights on my tripod a very good feature for long distance ranging of targets okay a little full disclosure. This is actually the second unit. That I’ve looked at the first. One worked spectacularly. It was great little rangefinder. Any problems with it to Wyoming but. One of the things I noticed. Iwas doing my standard reticle versus laser beam alignment test is. It was offset a little bit down to the bottom left corner of the reticle so as long as we’re talking about. That it’s talking about laser beams. This has a three-quarter mil by. And a half mil laser so the beam divergence is pretty low on. This it’s quite an improvement over the last.
One it’s laid out horizontally so it’s exactly twice as wide as. It is tall but the thing I noticed was. That the laser was actually down in the bottom left corner. And overlapping the reticle so gun works is great to work with. II brought it up with them. Isaid no big deal you know. Ican use it as is. Iunderstand it to Wyoming bounce. Some antelope over a thousand yards with. It out in the sagebrush so. You know from a functional standpoint. It was no big deal but. They said they’d prefer just to send. Me a new I just got three days ago. It is spot on is right the money right in the middle of. That reticle so full disclosure. This is the second one I’ve looked at. Yet to get one out to its max range. Ijust bounced a tree at 20 119 yards straight away from the camera there was Sun on. Everything so I have no doubt.
One will get to 2500 the unit itself is rated from 10 to 2500 the other rangefinder the first. Igot the first night. It out in the woods. Ibounced 2500 yards with. It will get there as far as the short distance I’ve actually ranged down to 8 yards with. One already so it’ll go a little bit lower. Then 10 so if you’re an archery hunter no problem there okay. This reads in yards only there’s actually a meters version of. That gun works exports out of the US. They told that they’re gonna make. It available very soon in the US market as well so. If you’re looking for one. That reads in meters it’s coming but. This unit only reads in yards. You can’t toggle back. And forth between yards.
And meters okay this is a ballistic rangefinder meaning. It has the capability to provide. You with a ballistic solution to shoot long range. It will give you a correction out to 1400 yards. You can set it up to give. You the correction in. Either a bullet drop compensator so. You have a turret or a reticle that’s designed to shoot two different yardages depending on what the conditions are it’ll give. That correction it’ll also give. You a straight up correction a minute of angle mil radians. Or inst drop inches so a number of inches drop to the target it’ll give. You corrections for I use minute of angles so. Ihave a set up to give.
Me a straight up minute of angle correction. And it’ll give you a correction to 1/10 MOA resolution so in other words twenty-four point two minutes of angle twenty-four point three minutes of angle it’ll give. You those Corrections it’ll also give. You a win correction it’s its pretty simple it’s a pretty. Idon’t want to say a crude setup but. It is basically a 90 degree full angle wind correction. And we’ll give it to. You from five miles to 30 miles per hour in five mile an hour increments so every time. You range the target. It gives you your elevation correction. This front arrow it’ll give. You 5 10 15 20 25 or 30 every time. You push that button so at least. You have something what I’ve been doing is. Ijust leave it on 10 so. You range something hit. That arrow wherever. You were the last time is. Where it’s going to be.
It set on 10 miles an hour. And then I just use. You know I have a 45 degree wind. Or a 90 degree wind but it’s 8 miles an hour then I’m going to use 80% of. And so forth and so on so at least it’s there right in the unit okay to give. You those Corrections. You have to have a gun profile built into the unit so right inside. You build your gun profiles it’ll store five different ones. Each gun profile can be named with up to eight characters. Either numbers or letters. And then it’s basically like doing any other ballistics solver. You input your g1 or g7 drag standard. You put in your muzzle velocity. You put in your sight height. You put in your zero range. Now the zero range doesn’t have to be 100. It can be any distance which is kind of cool. Ijust use 100 yards so. That function was pretty much wasted on. You use the BDC as the drop unit. You also can put in your turret temperature. And turret elevations so.
You have a custom turret built. You can input that was calibrated for now. Idon’t use BDC, so I’m not gonna spend a lot of time talking about. That function because quite frankly. Idon’t know enough about. It but it’s built right into. This rangefinder now the other cool thing about. This rangefinder is. You can edit you can do. All of your trajectory validation right on the unit so. You go out and shoot. That your corrections too high. Or too low you can go right in here. And adjust the muzzle velocity. Or adjust the bullet the bullets BC so. What I did was I just took the corrections. Ibuilt my profiles. All the correction data in other words the input the BC velocity. That right off my Kestrel by 5700 elite. And input it rights into. This rangefinder and then. It out in the woods. And bounced all the way out to 1400 yards which is max range. And from 200 to 1400 yards as. It was in within 1/10 of a minute of angle of my Kestrel so good enough for me okay as a ballistic rangefinder the BR 2500 has its own onboard sensors.
That will measure station pressure. And inches of mercury temperature. And Fahrenheit and inclination to the target those things are always updating so. You range a target at 1400 yards. It will give you a correction based on those conditions. You want to use this as a straight up rangefinder. You can just select. When you’re in the menu screen to say range only. It just works like a regular rangefinder the thing. That sets us apart a little bit is. If you’re fourteen hundred yards. You range a target it will give. You the line-of-sight range. And then it will give. You the horizontal distance as well right after. That first number no over 1400 yards doesn’t give. Anything except the range. Any time you want to know. What the station pressure is. Or the temperature or the inclination angle. You can just press this front arrow after. You range a target and it’ll give.
All those numbers so. If you’re using a ballistic solver. You want to input numbers into. You can use this to measure those environmental conditions just like. You would on a Kestrel. It also gives you a an approximate altitude based on pressure so. If you’re using something. You want to put the altitude in instead of station pressure. That option is there. All right guys there’s my little spiel on the BR 2500 look for our full review coming into December. Iwant to use this through the rest of hunting season. And for the next month. Or, so I’m going to use only the BR 2500 for every shot. That requires a rangefinder. Some of my initial thoughts on. This rangefinder is.
It works very well I think with the three-quarter by. And a half mil laser beam divergence. It is accurate enough to use on small targets at long range such as antelope out. And sagebrush this to Wyoming and. Iactually range some antelope from prone laying down behind the gun. And had no problem with. You know time will tell on how the water resistance is. Iget through deer season here it’s late October. And North Idaho it’s gonna be wet. Iguarantee I don’t think I’m gonna have a problem. You know if you’re interested in. Something like this that’s a full-featured rangefinder with a ballistic solver in. You could certainly do worse. Then checking out the BR 2500 but look for. That review in December until then thanks for watching see.
What’s going on guys I’m John. Another product review for you today we’re looking at the Ranger 1500 range finder by vortex let. Me break this video down for you real quick we’re going to unbox. It we’re going to physically look at. And then I’m going to field-test the thing we’re going to look at durability accuracy distance capabilities we’re going to check out. It does in low-light. And then I’m going to wrap. It up with pros cons. Where to get how much. It costs and that’s. It so here we go okay the vortex Ranger 1500 is still in the box let’s check. It out inside we’ve got a soft sided case with a rangefinder in. That aside also a little cheat card here for a slope. And drop got the manual got a allen wrench the neck lanyard. One lithium cr2 battery. Ithink that’s it alright lets’s take a look at. This thing it’s really pretty small 39 inches long 3 inches wide. And it’s only 7 point 7 ounces you’ll notice there’s a rubber coating on. It green keeps. It a little bit more durable. And actually gives you a better grip on the thing the lenses are fully multi-coated the front. You have the 22 millimeter objective lens.
This rangefinder has a magnification of 6. We look on the back you’ll see the eye cup here. This is actually you manually focus. This rangefinder below that’s. Where the battery goes let’s throw. That in quick just grab a coin drop the battery in a couple other things. If you’re going to put the lanyard on. You can see there’s a couple little holes here. And that’s where the neck lanyard goes right there. And on the side there’s a utility clip so. You want to put this on your pack. You want to put it in your pocket your belt um that’s. What that’s for and. You can actually use the eleanor wrench. Ishowed you can take. You can flip it to the other side depending on. If you’re right or left-handed. You don’t like you can just pull. It rights off on the bottom there’s the tripod socket. You want to use this thing with the tripod. And then on the top pretty simple there’s just two buttons the.
One closest to your. Isays measure the one further from your is menu. This rangefinder has. All rings that seal the product against moisture so essentially it’s waterproof it’s also fogged proof alright. You have the battery in to turn. You have to do is hit the measure button. Once in the display will pop up I’m going to show. You the display right. Now it’s not a great picture but kind of gives. You an idea once the display is showing you just have to hit the measure button the second time. That will give you your basic measurement so. Once to turn once to measure that’s. This rangefinder also has a scan mode so instead of. Once to turn it wants to take a measurement. You can do once to turn. And then hold the measure button down. What you can do is just scan.
Everything the rangefinder hits. It will continually give. You updated distances as far as getting into the menu. And changing some of the settings. That kept it pretty simple so the second button here furthest from your eye is the menu button. What you do is hold. It down for 4 seconds 1 2 3 4. And then you’re going to be in the menu mode. And there’s only really three options of things. You can change the first. You can change it from meters to yards. Or yards to meters the second thing you can do is change from HCD mode which is their angle compensating mode to the l OS mode which is just the line-of-sight mode. And the third thing you can do is just change the brightness of the display there’s three different brightness es so there. You go that’s the physical rundown of. This rangefinder we also just went through the basics of functionality we’re going to get into.
Some of those a little bit. We field test the product the first thing I looked at was the waterproof claim. What I did was submerged. This rangefinder underwater multiple times. It at the beginning of the field test. Iwanted to see it would crap out on. Me right away something would happen as the field testing went on but. You know what it checked out okay. That being said I wouldn’t take. This thing scuba diving on your next trip to the Caribbean but. It gets wet in field. Iwouldn’t sweat it the next thing I did was checked out the anti-fog properties. This thing is purged with nitrogen. It has the waterproof. All rings so no moisture is supposed to get inside of.
What I did was I wanted to shake. It up a little bit and go from extreme cold to warm back to cold so. This thing in the freezer. Ihad no issue whatsoever with internal fall game. Now don’t be confused. These companies say anti-fog. It means internal fogging not external fogging like the fog. You get on the outside of the glass. You breathe on you go from warm to cold. Something like I did get a little bit of fog on the glass doing. That as with all optics but. What they’re talking about here is the internal fogging no issues whatsoever ok guys before. Itest out the distance in the accuracy it’s important for you to know. That vortex advertises. This range finder has distance capabilities for non-reflective targets at 750 yards. And reflective targets at 1500 yards in. This works at angles is extreme as plus. Or minus 60 degrees so. Istarted small looking at basic accuracy. Ipulled the tape I took readings at 50 yards 40 yards 30 20 10.
And 9 yards every reading was spot-on including the 10 yards but. Idropped down to 9 yards no reading whatsoever the next thing I wanted to do was test out the distance capabilities so. Irecruited the team an. We found ourselves a better vantage point. We started pumping some distances out measurements can be taken two different ways let’s use. This tree as an example the first. One is the L OS or line-of-sight mode. When you’re in the L o s mode think about a line going straight from your eyeball right to the tree. And the rangefinder gave. Is a distance of 18 yards in an angle of negative 29 degrees switch to HCD mode which is the horizontal component distance. What the rangefinder does is.
It takes the line-of-sight measurement. And the angle it does the math. It gives you the true horizontal distance. If you’re hunting from a tree stand. Some extreme elevations. This is the distance. That you’re going to want to use. You take a shot in this scenario the tree had horizontal distance 15 yards. Me rattle off some other horizontal distances. We looked at the first object. We looked at was this well cap. We were unable to pick up in HCD reading and here’s why in line-of-sight mode. We arranged it at 11 yards but. It had an extreme angle of negative 56 degrees so. You do the math that distance would have come in under 10 yards in HCD mode in. This range fighter doesn’t pick up objects under 10 yards so here’s the rule of thumb with. This product if you’re close to an object but you’re unable to pick up a distance. You can assume that it’s under 10 yards next. This wheelbarrow at 29 yards the decoy at 123 yards.
This road sign at 304 yards the shed at 5:17 the tree line at 9:36. This blue silo at 1435 yards. We went back and cross-referenced the distance with. Some satellite imagery. We found that the actual distance was. One thousand four hundred. And thirty-three yards which was only two yards off vortex claims a variance of plus. Or minus three yards at. Any object fifteen hundred yards away. And our two yards off was well within the margin of error next. We tried another silo but with no luck. We couldn’t get a reading on the L o s mode. Or the HDD mode what we found out. We cross-referenced the satellite imagery again was.
This silo was over eighteen hundred yards away so outside of the capabilities of. This product all right you’re probably saying that’s good. Everything but John. Idon’t hunt silos I don’t hunt wheelbarrows. Ihunt non-reflective soft targets like deer bear elk. Iwas wondering the same thing so. Iwent out recruited. Some friends to help. Me not only was I able to connect on multiple animals under 100 yards but. Iwas also able to connect on cows at five fifty-five six forties. And seven hundred and eleven yards the next thing I wanted to do was test. This product in a low light scenario so. Iset my decoy up at fifty-nine yards. Itook my first reading at sunset. Itook my second reading thirty minutes after sunset which typically is the end of shooting hours the evening. Idid the low-light testing was just a.
Few days after the new moon so. Ididn’t get much help from the moon as far as additional light. Iwas easily able to make out the decoy. And range it 10 minutes after shooting light 20 minutes after shooting light as. You can see I ran out of camera light but. Iwas still able to pick up the decoy. And range and then 30 minutes after shooting late again with no camera light. Iwas able to just pick up the white on the belly of the whitetail so. This thing had low light capabilities almost a full hour after sunset. Or a half an hour after legal shooting hours just a disclaimer don’t hunt after legal shooting hours as. It is illegal but I just did. This to show how good. It worked in low-light the last thing I want to do is just touch on the scan mode again. What you can do is hold the measure button in. And just scan in everything the rangefinder hits it’s going to continually keep pumping out distances for you.
This works great in two different scenarios. One trying to pick up distances on really far away objects. It doesn’t take much. That measure button to bump. It a little bit if it’s on a tripod just hitting the button will bump. It enough you can miss a target completely at 12. Or 13 hundred yards. If you’re in scan mode. You can keep hovering around. That object until you get a good reading the second scenario. You guys have all been there you’re sitting in your stand you’re trying to range multiple trees around your stand to get an idea. How far away everything is there’s. One tree you’ve been trying to hit but every time. You range it you’re hitting some of the branches. Or brush and foreground again. If you’re in scan mode hold. That button down you can just hover until.
You find that hole. It gives you a reading right through to. That tree you’ll be good to go. All right I think that’s. Everything so let’s move on to pros cons. How much where to get the thing okay guys let’s talk about the pros the distance is checked out fine the accuracy checked out fine the angle compensation seemed to work great. You guys saw we had no issues with water. Ireally like the fact. That the display offered three different brightness es depending on how dark. Or light it is outside the scan mode was a cool feature in the utility clip is. Something that’s unique. That I’ll be taking advantage of. This fall ok let’s move over to cons the only possible issue. Ifound with this rangefinder is. If you’re that really wants a rangefinder that’s going to pick up objects less. That 10 yard mark you might want to look for something else otherwise. This rangefinder just checked out to be really solid ok guys I’m going to take.
One step further if you’re familiar with vortexes first range finder the Ranger 1000 after looking at countless reviews there were two things. That jumped off the page as potential negatives the first is customers weren’t thrilled. You had to push the button three times to get reading they fixed. That with this new rangefinder the 1500. You only have to do. Once to turn once to get a measurement. And the second thing is. Some people said the Ranger 1000 had a slower processor speed meaning you hit the button. You wait a little bit. And then you get your distance. Ihad no problems field testing the range of 1500. Ihit the button immediately got a distance no issues there. One of the limitations of. This video was I didn’t look at battery life whatsoever the good thing about. When you’re looking through the display on the rangefinder. It actually has a battery meter so. You guys can always see. What the battery life is on the rangefinder.
If for some reason this thing you know runs out of battery two. Or three months down the road I’ll put a comment below. This video to let you guys know. That hey the battery didn’t hold up alright so. Where do how much does. It cost a good thing to do would be to go over to Vortex’s website I’m going to leave the link below. This video in the information it’s always a good place to start but about four hundred. And eighty dollars and I’ve seen. It at Midway USA online Cabala’s Bass Pro Shop Sportsman’s Warehouse so. You can get it pretty much anywhere. You guys have local sports shops. That carry any of the vortex optics. They can get it for you to the last thing. Ido want to touch on is the warranty. That vortex has I usually don’t talk about warranties. Unless it’s a really good. This is a really good.
One so basically their VIP warranty says. If it’s got the vortex name on. It no receipts no registrations. Something goes wrong with. It to them, and they’re going to take care of. It hurts to lay out a lot of money for optics. Any optics not just. That kind of warranty to back. You can feel pretty good about making the one-time purchase. All right guys that’s. You liked the video make sure. You subscribe to the antlers core dot-com YouTube channel hit. That little red subscribe button we’ve been pumping out a video every two weeks for about the last seven months. And I’m going to take. One step further I’m going to give. You the $000 it costs to subscribe to my channel otherwise keep an eye out for my next video we’ll see.
Today everyone’s going to review here on the vortex Ranger 1500 rangefinder just picked. One up last week been using it. All week in the mountains hunting Red Deer for the raw. You had a chance to use. Some animals too well. Some targets last few days. Iwas give a review from my perspective first thing I love about is the size he’s really compact a lot smaller. Than my previous rangefinder which. Iupgraded from okay feels great in the hand got the rubberized coating belt clip massive winner for me. And just clip that straight on your belt does come with a case upon. You can put and it’s also got the lanyard so. It ranges from 9 yards to 1500. You can change it through from. Either 2 yards depending on your preference use. It on meters I was ranging a red stag today. It was roaring in a gully blow watching him passed him up has only an 8 pointer. You originally arranged him at 200 meters. And then ranged him. All the way out 776 was as far as. We got him and then after. That had a bit of difficulty rating we could range rocks pass him. You know two eight nine hundred meters but yeah the ranging animal. That size that distances became can be hard but it’s quite impressive.
You guys 700 meters on a deer size tag it’s pretty good a great little rangefinder for the prize so. You can see on here got your menu. And your measure buttons very intuitive menu scrolling through your options it’s got three brightness settings. Iwon’t show you through looking through. It but yeah you cross here. You can change your brightness. And also gives you your horizontal component distance so calculate. Some angles for ya you cannot have. One shooting on flat ground like. We are here in the mountains yeah so gives. You a common set distance yeah. One of the main things. Iloved was the red display previous range. One of the views we’ve had a. You have a red cross hair. And red text sorry a black cross hair. And black text where so the red display. This was much easier. Ifound to use easier to see especially in low light. You know early foggy mornings yeah. You can see so yeah.
You can put your the belt clip there. You can swap it on sides depending on which side. You want to carry zoom in a bit there. You go range of 1500 yeah it’s a great little bit of gear. And the size is the massive winner. You don’t know you’re carrying on your belt in your pocket. Wherever it’s not sure off the top my head. What the way it is but it’s absolutely buggered. All very light piece of gear eyepiece comes out nice out of the eye points nicely. Anything I notice is. That button the measure button could be a bit further back on that’s probably just. More my fault from being used to a different model. Where the buttons right there. Ialways but they’re here it’s not hard to move your finger theater there to range yeah great bit of money.
Unless you’re doing long-range shooting you’re not going to need much faster a thousand yards so for the average hunter it’s fifteen hundred’s is heaps so you’re not gonna wish. More for that so yeah really handy bit of gear the vortex range of 1500 rangefinders highly recommend.
To complete the programming we’ll use the measure. And menu buttons on top of the Ranger 1000 to begin simply press. And release the measure button briefly to bring up the display. Once the display is up press. And hold the menu button down for four seconds until the mode selection screen displays then release the button. Now you’re in the mode choice for HCD. Or l OS simply press the measure button briefly to toggle between HCD. And l OS press and released it’ll toggle back. And forth you in the mode choice. You prefer briefly press the menu button. It will save that setting now the display moves to the yards meters choice again simply press. And release the measure button briefly to toggle between yards. And meters once you’re in the mode. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. That setting the display. Now moves to the brightness choice use the measure button press.
And release briefly to toggle through three levels of brightness. Once you’re in the brightness. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. It the display now returns to HCD l OS. You have the settings. All set as you prefer. You can simply press. And hold the menu button for four seconds to save. These settings and exit the mode selection process. This can also be done at. Any time through the process well that’s. All there’s to know you’re. All set to take your Ranger 1000 out in the field.
This video today it’s a little uh it’s a little tech review that’s gonna save. You a lot of money okay we’re looking at two rangefinders bad guy in. This guy both under $100 let’s check. It out okays looking at range finders under $100 part two. All right here we go so okay. Iwas sent a couple range finders they’re. Both under $100 but. One was so bad I have to reshoot the whole video. Igave the people an opportunity to bow out just a do. You really want me to do a video of. This cuz it’s horrible so it’s out I’m not gonna tell. You the name of you know. Idon’t want to bad-mouth the product but man sometimes things are so bad so. Whatever you do just don’t buy. That looks like this okay they’re just junk don’t. Even work, so I can’t do two range finders $100. One range finder under hundred dollars. This guy from woo sports okay boom right here 89 bucks. Ithink I’ll leave a link below it’s the Wu Sports W 600. And but we’re gonna compare. This bad boy to the Nikon cool shot ATI VR. This thing is like 450 bucks rock. And roll this thing has never let. Me down, so we’re going $89 versus 450 bucks 460. Something ridiculous it’s crazy but it’s worth. It I’ve got to say it’s.
It is the best rangefinder I’ve ever had image stabilization. You could be so nervous. And lock onto that flag so let’s do. It okay, so we’re testing it out at the range. Because there’re multiple flags the flags are harder to hit on the range. Because a lot of them don’t have. That little reflective thing enough. That the range finders like, so we’re gonna make. It difficult and we’ve got. Everything from a hundred. Or last two 300 yards out there, so we’ll really put. These guys to the test okay. And to be fair I’ll give. That other third guy a shot just to see. Even close all right so first target green flag we’ll start with the Nikon ATI VR here. This guy Oh 118 this has three modes. Ibelieve yeah so we’ve got mode. One just scan you could hit.
Anything MOTU is flagstick detection. And mode three is a speed. Idon’t know why you need speed but. All right, so we’ll go flagstick detection mode here. We go 119 pretty good. This thing I just click. It locks on and vibrates after. You kind of like it lock down real quick okay um test number two okay there’s a barrel out there. Ican’t see this test 2 is speed test so for when. Iget a number you ready start the clock. Isay go and go 149 okay. How fast of that three four seconds okay woo sports. This guy 149 ready and go 150 it’s pretty quick right on the money just about a yard off pretty good. Idon’t know which one’s faster that’s my tender touch faster okay um test three here.
We go okay test three is. What we do we got three flags out there orange on the right orange on the Left red way far. One two three we’re in knock. All three of mount one two three. And see which one goes faster. More accurate so speed. And multiple flags ready. And Nikon first ready go 2:27 done took a second on the first. One 43 49 52 ZnO okay. And 31 pretty good this thing’s pretty quick. Idon’t know that was the best the. Most uh technical test ever. Even know it correctly but. This okay so this has image stabilization so it’s kind of not a fair test. Because it’s just steady. Imean I’m shaking around. This shake around but. It locks all pretty good very impressive so far alright yeah like. Isaid I’m I’ll give. On a go all right we’ll go green then we’ll go barrel just to see. Imean we’ll see here. We go 404 yards the Beryl’s 365 yards.
And the orange flag on the left is I’m 712 yards sad. Idon’t know what they did to. This but like why is. It why sent I didn’t ask for it don’t buy. This guy okay if you’re looking for a rangefinder under a hundred bucks. One isn’t worth five bucks it’s not. Even worth anything it doesn’t. Even work obviously. This is 450 plus but. It is the greatest rangefinder I’ve ever had in my life so. This is my guy this is $89 ah it’s larger for sure then. Most of them but I like the rubber handle. You have kids you bang. It around the golf cart a lot. This is very durable lightweight. Ireally like I think it’s worth it’s. Ithink in my opinion. One of the best well its price it’s in my opinion the best rangefinder under $100 right there I’m used range finders 250-300 ollars.
That warrant as good as. One locks on the target vibrates doesn’t have slope so. You don’t have that but very simple to use worth every penny whose sports I’ll leave a link below check them out hope. You liked the video hope. It helps subscribe to the channel. You haven’t already peace. This is my guy what just fell off the sticker just fell off the sticker fell off forget it.
The vortex optics is a company that’s taken the outdoor industry by storm for producing great quality product at an affordable price. And a warranty that’s absolutely second to. You know for 2012 they’ve launched their first ever laser rangefinder it’s compact durable. And extremely easy to use. It is slightly larger. Than a business card. And only weighs in at seven. And a half ounces it comes with a heavy-duty belt clip. That is secured with three heavy-duty metal screws which will stands years of punishment the housing is covered with a rubberized armor coating making the easy to grip as well as adding to its durability. You know the internal operation of. This little piece of equipment is. What makes it so special vortex is taken. What can be very complicated in a rangefinder. And made it very simple. You know if you’re the kind of person. That likes to open the box throw in the batteries. And hit the field without reading a lot of instructions like. This unit is just for you it’s preset at the factory for the. Most widely used program which is HCD yards. And medium illumination the HCD stands for horizontal component distance which.
That means it takes into account your direct line-of-sight your percentage of angle. And then gives what you exactly need to hold for to make a killing shot let’s assume. That you’ve got a shot at a bore at 475 yards at a serious uphill angle about 20 degrees like. Ihad here on the Tohono ranch yesterday. This rangefinder told. Me to shoot it for 425 yards. And behold I know right. Where my gun hits we put the smackdown on. That big board he went 80 yards. You know the other adjustment. You can make to this rangefinder is. You can actually choose line of sight so. What that’s going to do for you it’s going to tell. You the actual yardage. Or meters to your specific target it’s also going to tell.
You the incline or decline in angle. This being said you’re gonna need to have a PDA. Some sort of external device on your smartphone. You can go ahead and plug in. All of your data and get your exact hold over. That you’re gonna need but basically the way. This king comes set from the factory is going to be. You need from pretty much 95% of the shooters. That are out there though the ranger 1000 is accurate from 11 yards. All the way out to a thousand yards so buildings. And rock reflective targets. It says down to a thousand yards. We were consistently able to hit. That on a regular basis but the booklet. That comes with it says deer size targets. Or in our case bore out here on the Tohono ranch is. It says hawk to 500 yards. We were able to consistently get. Even in low-light conditions well past the 500 yard mark so really accurate. And really a great piece of equipment. Isaid before this item is very simple it’s basically got three adjustments.
Either got HDC or line of sight. Either choose yards. Or meters and then you’ve got three different levels of illumination. We did find it did come preset at medium. We did find that the higher level illumination was about the best especially. If you’re out there in bright sunny days. One other thing that really deserves to mention with. This rangefinder is the scan mode. Anybody who’s ever been out there. And needed to use of the rangefinder. Whether it’s in fog rain. You can’t get a yardage. And possibly make a killing shot on an animal that’s. Something that always concerns. Me with a rangefinder. And the scan mode which is super easy to get into basically push. One button down for four seconds. It will continue to take reading, and we’ve always been able to get a good reading in the rain. And the fog we’ve tested. This unit in you know there’s just not a lot to say other.
This thing is just simple. And very easy to use accurate for short range archery. All the way out to long range rifle. You know one thing vortex. It comes with a warranty that’s just absolutely second to. None stop my Sportsman’s Warehouse take a look at the new vortex Ranger 1000 for yourself.
All right guys so vortex rangefinder Ranger 1800 supposed to be able to range from nine yards up to. It said 1800 yeah 1800 yards on reflective targets non reflective from 9 yards to 900 so open. This up take a look inside. Now I was playing around with a demo unit. It was crystal clear so I’m get. This one out play around with. It and try to show. You guys structure book need. That just hope I’m doing this with. One hand so my lanyard it’s cute my lumpy god bless teeth oh what’s in there. It is so menu measure little belt clip don’t. You guys be able to see inside. It and doesn’t really do. Anything but uh see. If we can’t get that to focus in a little bit. When we go out and play with. This a little bit later so go ahead. And get the battery in. And try to show you guys. This thing in action stay tuned things instruct in their pickup on the tree.
That barn can’t really read. It but eight hundred. And forty-nine yards 243 yards so. This thing gets out there pretty good. And it is pretty bright so despite. What the camera shown with the flare. Now you can also change. All of that a brightness. That is in the neighbor’s house so as. You can see it’s pretty nice. It should make things a little bit easier it’s stupid clear real clear setting. That tree so there it is for ducks Ranger 18 hunters. And I do want to note. That you can change the. How am I trying to say the measurements. And if I have to focus in on. This between yards and meters with the button here. Ihave it set on yards George meters. And there’s your brightness setting. That I was telling you about so probably could have turned. It up before you guys I’ll just keep.
It on the medium side in there it’s nice it’s got the battery level down there too so alright she’s just a close-up of. This card again just. Because in the beginning it wasn’t very clear so doesn’t in. Both no end in no way so. That comes with it Oh Maynard probably never use I’ll tell. You I really like the texture of. It rubbery it feels like it’s its really nice in your hands buttons. Idon’t know you can hear them click. Or not but it’s a good feel so does the knack. We shut off so you don’t have to worry about. You know turn it off turn. It on I piece is adjustable for focus how’s your little boy. Or excuse me here tripod male. If you want to get real fancy. All right I gotta so that’s. It I’ve enjoyed you know the video. Anybody looking to purchase. It I hope that helped clear. It up a little bit for you vortex Ranger 1800 so. You know like subscribe. And I will see you guys next time.
We are at the glorious Lake Bar Umba. What a pristine glorious delightful autumn day it’s very hot but it’ll cool down soon enough we’ve come out here for two reasons number. One we’ll go and fish in. And number two we are going to go. Some rangefinder e goodness. One of the few places. Icould find that’s worth coming to. That actually has enough range to max out my little sig kilo 1250 rangefinders on a reflective target. That reflective target is the damn wall from about 1400 meters away it’s got a nice Bank picked out picked. It out on Google Maps so hopefully we’ll catch. Some fish, and we’ll get our video back your toys All righty so I just had the boys drop. Me off over here on the other side of the dam, so I’ve got a nice clear shot over to the dam wall so let’s unbox a little cig. What it’s got to offer so as. You can see this is the cig kilo 1250 it’s a six by twenty. Ididn’t pay for nineteen for it but that’s. What the sticker says but. Ithink 389 for it was on special at the time. And since then it has gone up just a little bit I’ve seen a. Few of them online at various shops for between five. And six hundred dollars sometimes. Even over six hundred dollars but at the time the price point represented a good sort of high value option.
It wasn’t the most expensive. It wasn’t the cheapest. It has quite a bit of good solid range on. It says it will do up to sixteen hundred yards reflective trees at 950. And a soft target like a deer at 750 yards so for those of. Everybody else in the rest of the world. That uses the metric system 1600 yards is about fourteen hundred. And fifty meters or there abouts. And that’s approximately. How far away from the dam wall. Now so hopefully that will work as a reflective target so. You open the box you get a nice little lanyard. You also get a cr2 battery. That comes with it but I’ve already put. This lovely little cig case.
It has a belt loop on the back it’s made from corduroy. Something like it feels like called Jura sig brand on the front. This lovely little pull tab instead of a press-stud. Or velcro so you can open. And close it nicely. And it’s quiet which is good. And that’s a good choice for a hunting optic so pulling it out. What it looks like we’ve got a mode button right here. We have the range button here. It is very simple to operate. You simply pick it up to your eye Lac so look through. And then put the reticle over. What you want and then click the range button. It will give you the range. That you’re looking for it has. One mode for the range. You click and hold the mode button. It will bring up your options list. And you’re able to set. It for direct range so from like from A to B in a straight line disregarding the angle of elevation.
You can go ahead and use the angle modified range mode which is ideal for ballistics. You are say you’re ranging the top of a mountain. Something like and you’re aiming up it’s going to give. You the exact relevant ballistic range not the point-to-point range so. It will modify its distance. It spits out for the angle. That will be affecting the round. That you’re going to shoot so. Ireally like I think that’s a great idea. And that’s that’s pretty much. Ialways leave I never really changed. It to point distance. Even when I’m using it for other stuff like measuring out paddocks at home. Whatever I still just use. That angle modified range. Because it’s pretty much close enough it’s. It does the job perfectly so that’s. One of the things that you’ll probably find when.
You take the plunge. You buy a rangefinder you’ll probably find. It a lot you would think for stuff. You wouldn’t even expect so yeah it’s great for measuring distances in. All forms not not just in a ballistic sense so let’s jump over. And have a look, and we’ll use my SuperDuper dodgy little scope cam setup. And hopefully that’ll give. Is a nice clear picture. And we’ll be able to arrange the wall at 1400 ish meters. And prove it can actually hit a reflective target. That far out because that’s quite a long way for a rangefinder in. This price bracket to actually be shooting and oftentimes like I’m a bit of an optics knob. Ilook at Sig what if what have. They did and like. Idon’t really they don’t set my heart on fire. Ilook at their other optics. And stuff not not to say. That there’s anything wrong with them. Because I’ve never actually used them but it’s not the sort of it’s not really a name. That comes too when. You think of high quality optics. If you’re an optic snob.
And you’re used to liking night force. And March that sort of stuff. You probably wouldn’t first thing. That sig could deliver your product. That you’d be happy with but. It represents say a really good high value option like it’s not a high-end rangefinder by. Any means but it will almost certainly get the job done. You need it to do so let’s have a look at the wall. How far away it is check. This out for a garbage home job piece of redneck engineering I didn’t. Even finish it properly but. It pretties many works so. You know it’s just an old phone case with. Some PVC on that I’ve rigged up so. It will hold the ocular lens of the rangefinder that’s looking pretty good so that’s.
What the reticle looks like it’s got as we’re on angle modified range mode at the moment. That does is correct for the angle. That the in klonoa detects within the rangefinder so. It gives you a ballistic ally correct range instead of the point A to point B range so as. You can see just then we’ll scope along there. One thousand one hundred. And sixty-eight point seven meters so that’s a fairly large reflective target. We scoot on over and catch. One of these boats out the back there 511 I’ll bet. You behind they’re a little bit too fiddly for. That my apologies for my shaky hands. All right there we go there’s a small child at 291 meters being towed in ASCII tube lovely day for us 481 meters away for. That boat on the other side of the dam so.
You can do a 1600-meter long reflective target range. That means a very large reflective target at 1600 meters. Because it’s a little bit wobbly as. You can see with these longer ranges with. If you’ve got shaky hands. Iwould think you would have to be a brain surgeon to get a small reflective target at 1600 meters so let’s try. And range the trees we’ll see. We get a nice close reading on. Some soft targets still too small still too far away. And there we go 536 meters to the trees on the other side 574 there 636 getting a little bit further. And looks like the boys in the boat over there. It was 759 meters so nearly 800 meters that’s pretty good for what I would think is a non-reflective target being. That’s the trees. All right that is a reflective target that’s the boat. Something shiny on the boat so we’ve got. Some fairly long ranges on soft targets up to about 600 meters there. We go 663 meters so that’s not bad at.
All not bad at one of the good things about. This rangefinder is. You can hold like click. And drag it will spit out of. All bunch of numbers at. And then leave the closest number. It gets so you can scan across. Something like this turn the rangefinder on just by clicking the arrange button. And then scan left to right until. It gives you a reading and then just let go. You see the reading and bam 1174. All righty then, so I think that’ll do. Us for our long-range reflective target test there so. That we’ve we’ve got over 1100 meters. Whatever it was out to the dam wall on a reflective target but to get. That far out you need a quite a large target. It obviously has to be reflective enough to bounce the beam. All the way back into the receiver so. It can tell how far away. It is so it does say. It will hit a reflective target at 1600 yards. It will do that but. It needs to be very reflective. And big enough for you to actually get.
That handshake you would have been able to see through my scope cam there so. One of the things that really does bug. Me about it is on the bottom. Ifeel like there should be a tripod mount. Isuppose you could probably try. It into a smartphone bracket. Something like and mount. It on your tripod but. It is quite wide it’s a lot well it’s a lot it’s not quite wide really but it’s its a lot wider. Than a smartphone is. These days so the general sort of size probably wouldn’t really work very well. Imay end up making something. That straps around the body of. And has the little pin in the bottom so. Ican hook it onto a tripod for longer ranges. If need be but that being said I’m probably never really going to be going out there. And shooting anything past a thousand yards anywhere other. Then the range for a target shooting so. Even then I still haven’t gotten around to doing.
Ican’t see that really being an issue for me at shorter ranges like below 500 meters its very quick. And very easy on any target so. Or not it’s reflective it’s still going to give. You a good reading they don’t really work very well in foggy times of day the fog seems to mess around with the beam. And prevent like a nice straight clean reflection coming back to. You but yeah as far as clear weather. Everything goes it’s a great option so — to cover the pros we’ve got a good price point it’s not it’s not cheaper nasty doesn’t feel cheap. And nasty at least it seems to give accurate ranges. Both long and short on hard. And soft targets and reflective targets at really long ranges but as far as cones go. Nothing on the bottom to hook. It up to a tripod so. You are shooting long distance targets it’s gonna be a little tricky. And also one other gripe is the reticle isn’t illuminated so it’s just it’s always black lucky saw in.
That little video there are the higher class models like the kilo 2200. And 2400 and so on. And so forth as you go up in the price brackets. They do have illuminated reticles but yeah unfortunately the kilo 1250. And the kilo 850 I believe which is the model below. They just they’re not illuminated so yeah. You want to play you gotta pay. All right so let’s let’s go fishing and then later on we’ll go back. And look at some competitive options so I’ll do’t catch. Any fish the other boys did but. We still add a cracker overtime. And that’s what really matters. Iguess plenty of beers plenty of good times. We didn’t get too sunburned so happy with. That up here on the screen let’s go into. Some competitive options for the Seas so first of. All on the left-hand side here we’ve got the Leopold rx 1600 I’ve used Leopold rx 800. Or an 850 I can’t quite remember which.
It was but I did like. It seemed like a good quality unit. And I’d be very surprised. If these any different as far as quality goes I’m very happy with. All of the Leopold stuff. That I’ve got in my gun safe so let’s have a look at the stats comes in a couple of different colors black blaze orange. And mossy oak that mossy oak one’s quite nice 1600 yard maximum range that’ll be for a reflective target same as the sig six times zoom. And a fairly nice wide field of view good stuff. You like loot pulp stuff. And you’re not a fan of sig for whatever reason. This would be a good option for you it’s very similar in pretty much every way.
Even including the price in Australia. You might end up paying a little bit. More for a Leopold but as. It stands at the moment that’s pretty similar to the SIG’s pricing ii competitive option is we’re going to run with a vortex Ranger. Ihaven’t used the vortex Rangers but. Ihave used a lot of other vortex gear. And I’m a big fan of vortex. They make for this whole sort of high-value target market. That we’re looking at where. You can afford some reasonably good stuff but. You don’t want to destroy your bank account for the next six months vortex is always a good option so a little bit. More poke than the sig. And the loophole goes. All the way out to 1800 yards same six times zoom. And same battery same. Everything but yeah. Iwould definitely look into. That would be a good option. You want to go with vortex third a relative newcomer to my little world. Ihaven’t really know about Athlon optics for a great deal of time but my old man’s got.
One of these little Athlon range finders. And it’s pretty good personally. Iprefer the CG over the Athlon but as. You look at the stats of the Athlon it’s 1200 yards not 1600 buts. Everything else is pretty similar so. You are looking for a slightly cheaper option. You don’t need to range a sixteen hundred yard reflective target. Ican’t really think of a reason why I. Even need sixteen hundred yards of range to be completely honest but yeah the Athlon. Ithink is also a good option. And having used. It feels like a good quality product just as well as the sig does let’s have a look at option number four. We finally have Bushnell. Ithink of Bushnell in the same vein. Ithink of Burris and indeed vortex as well. Ithink they’re all sort of like. All have obviously different levels of their products. They market to different demographics but.
When you’re talking about sort of reasonably priced high value type stuff. Ithink Bushnell’s always worth a look. They have a really good warranty just same as Leopold vortex. And Sig they’re all the lifetime warranty type things. It seems to be the standard for this type of product nowadays, but we’re going out to 1300 yards. And not quite as strong as the sig in the Leopold. And the vortex but still. Than enough to get you want to go different batteries taking a cr123 instead of a the other. One cr2 but still I would think. This would be a very good competitive option so look into. If you’re interested in keeping it bushy so sorry about the audio not really sure. What was going on there I’m testing some new mics.
And we’ve got a little bit of feedback over there but hopefully it’s usable. You guys enjoyed watching the video as much as. Ienjoyed making it. You did gently tickle. That like button and subscribe. You want to see and I’ll catch. You in the next one Cheers
We are at the glorious Lake Bar Umba. What a pristine glorious delightful autumn day it’s very hot but it’ll cool down soon enough we’ve come out here for two reasons number. One we’ll go and fish in. And number two we are going to go. Some rangefinder e goodness. One of the few places. Icould find that’s worth coming to. That actually has enough range to max out my little sig kilo 1250 rangefinders on a reflective target. That reflective target is the damn wall from about 1400 meters away it’s got a nice Bank picked out picked. It out on Google Maps so hopefully we’ll catch. Some fish, and we’ll get our video back your toys All righty so I just had the boys drop. Me off over here on the other side of the dam, so I’ve got a nice clear shot over to the dam wall so let’s unbox a little cig. What it’s got to offer so as. You can see this is the cig kilo 1250 it’s a six by twenty. Ididn’t pay for nineteen for it but that’s. What the sticker says but. Ithink 389 for it was on special at the time. And since then it has gone up just a little bit I’ve seen a. Few of them online at various shops for between five. And six hundred dollars sometimes. Even over six hundred dollars but at the time the price point represented a good sort of high value option.
It wasn’t the most expensive. It wasn’t the cheapest. It has quite a bit of good solid range on. It says it will do up to sixteen hundred yards reflective trees at 950. And a soft target like a deer at 750 yards so for those of. Everybody else in the rest of the world. That uses the metric system 1600 yards is about fourteen hundred. And fifty meters or there abouts. And that’s approximately. How far away from the dam wall. Now so hopefully that will work as a reflective target so. You open the box you get a nice little lanyard. You also get a cr2 battery. That comes with it but I’ve already put. This lovely little cig case.
It has a belt loop on the back it’s made from corduroy. Something like it feels like called Jura sig brand on the front. This lovely little pull tab instead of a press-stud. Or velcro so you can open. And close it nicely. And it’s quiet which is good. And that’s a good choice for a hunting optic so pulling it out. What it looks like we’ve got a mode button right here. We have the range button here. It is very simple to operate. You simply pick it up to your eye Lac so look through. And then put the reticle over. What you want and then click the range button. It will give you the range. That you’re looking for it has. One mode for the range. You click and hold the mode button. It will bring up your options list. And you’re able to set. It for direct range so from like from A to B in a straight line disregarding the angle of elevation.
You can go ahead and use the angle modified range mode which is ideal for ballistics. You are say you’re ranging the top of a mountain. Something like and you’re aiming up it’s going to give. You the exact relevant ballistic range not the point-to-point range so. It will modify its distance. It spits out for the angle. That will be affecting the round. That you’re going to shoot so. Ireally like I think that’s a great idea. And that’s that’s pretty much. Ialways leave I never really changed. It to point distance. Even when I’m using it for other stuff like measuring out paddocks at home. Whatever I still just use. That angle modified range. Because it’s pretty much close enough it’s. It does the job perfectly so that’s. One of the things that you’ll probably find when.
You take the plunge. You buy a rangefinder you’ll probably find. It a lot you would think for stuff. You wouldn’t even expect so yeah it’s great for measuring distances in. All forms not not just in a ballistic sense so let’s jump over. And have a look, and we’ll use my SuperDuper dodgy little scope cam setup. And hopefully that’ll give. Is a nice clear picture. And we’ll be able to arrange the wall at 1400 ish meters. And prove it can actually hit a reflective target. That far out because that’s quite a long way for a rangefinder in. This price bracket to actually be shooting and oftentimes like I’m a bit of an optics knob. Ilook at Sig what if what have. They did and like. Idon’t really they don’t set my heart on fire. Ilook at their other optics. And stuff not not to say. That there’s anything wrong with them. Because I’ve never actually used them but it’s not the sort of it’s not really a name. That comes too when. You think of high quality optics. If you’re an optic snob.
And you’re used to liking night force. And March that sort of stuff. You probably wouldn’t first thing. That sig could deliver your product. That you’d be happy with but. It represents say a really good high value option like it’s not a high-end rangefinder by. Any means but it will almost certainly get the job done. You need it to do so let’s have a look at the wall. How far away it is check. This out for a garbage home job piece of redneck engineering I didn’t. Even finish it properly but. It pretties many works so. You know it’s just an old phone case with. Some PVC on that I’ve rigged up so. It will hold the ocular lens of the rangefinder that’s looking pretty good so that’s.
What the reticle looks like it’s got as we’re on angle modified range mode at the moment. That does is correct for the angle. That the in klonoa detects within the rangefinder so. It gives you a ballistic ally correct range instead of the point A to point B range so as. You can see just then we’ll scope along there. One thousand one hundred. And sixty-eight point seven meters so that’s a fairly large reflective target. We scoot on over and catch. One of these boats out the back there 511 I’ll bet. You behind they’re a little bit too fiddly for. That my apologies for my shaky hands. All right there we go there’s a small child at 291 meters being towed in ASCII tube lovely day for us 481 meters away for. That boat on the other side of the dam so.
You can do a 1600-meter long reflective target range. That means a very large reflective target at 1600 meters. Because it’s a little bit wobbly as. You can see with these longer ranges with. If you’ve got shaky hands. Iwould think you would have to be a brain surgeon to get a small reflective target at 1600 meters so let’s try. And range the trees we’ll see. We get a nice close reading on. Some soft targets still too small still too far away. And there we go 536 meters to the trees on the other side 574 there 636 getting a little bit further. And looks like the boys in the boat over there. It was 759 meters so nearly 800 meters that’s pretty good for what I would think is a non-reflective target being. That’s the trees. All right that is a reflective target that’s the boat. Something shiny on the boat so we’ve got. Some fairly long ranges on soft targets up to about 600 meters there. We go 663 meters so that’s not bad at.
All not bad at one of the good things about. This rangefinder is. You can hold like click. And drag it will spit out of. All bunch of numbers at. And then leave the closest number. It gets so you can scan across. Something like this turn the rangefinder on just by clicking the arrange button. And then scan left to right until. It gives you a reading and then just let go. You see the reading and bam 1174. All righty then, so I think that’ll do. Us for our long-range reflective target test there so. That we’ve we’ve got over 1100 meters. Whatever it was out to the dam wall on a reflective target but to get. That far out you need a quite a large target. It obviously has to be reflective enough to bounce the beam. All the way back into the receiver so. It can tell how far away. It is so it does say. It will hit a reflective target at 1600 yards. It will do that but. It needs to be very reflective. And big enough for you to actually get.
That handshake you would have been able to see through my scope cam there so. One of the things that really does bug. Me about it is on the bottom. Ifeel like there should be a tripod mount. Isuppose you could probably try. It into a smartphone bracket. Something like and mount. It on your tripod but. It is quite wide it’s a lot well it’s a lot it’s not quite wide really but it’s its a lot wider. Than a smartphone is. These days so the general sort of size probably wouldn’t really work very well. Imay end up making something. That straps around the body of. And has the little pin in the bottom so. Ican hook it onto a tripod for longer ranges. If need be but that being said I’m probably never really going to be going out there. And shooting anything past a thousand yards anywhere other. Then the range for a target shooting so. Even then I still haven’t gotten around to doing.
Ican’t see that really being an issue for me at shorter ranges like below 500 meters its very quick. And very easy on any target so. Or not it’s reflective it’s still going to give. You a good reading they don’t really work very well in foggy times of day the fog seems to mess around with the beam. And prevent like a nice straight clean reflection coming back to. You but yeah as far as clear weather. Everything goes it’s a great option so — to cover the pros we’ve got a good price point it’s not it’s not cheaper nasty doesn’t feel cheap. And nasty at least it seems to give accurate ranges. Both long and short on hard. And soft targets and reflective targets at really long ranges but as far as cones go. Nothing on the bottom to hook. It up to a tripod so. You are shooting long distance targets it’s gonna be a little tricky. And also one other gripe is the reticle isn’t illuminated so it’s just it’s always black lucky saw in.
That little video there are the higher class models like the kilo 2200. And 2400 and so on. And so forth as you go up in the price brackets. They do have illuminated reticles but yeah unfortunately the kilo 1250. And the kilo 850 I believe which is the model below. They just they’re not illuminated so yeah. You want to play you gotta pay. All right so let’s let’s go fishing and then later on we’ll go back. And look at some competitive options so I’ll do’t catch. Any fish the other boys did but. We still add a cracker overtime. And that’s what really matters. Iguess plenty of beers plenty of good times. We didn’t get too sunburned so happy with. That up here on the screen let’s go into. Some competitive options for the Seas so first of. All on the left-hand side here we’ve got the Leopold rx 1600 I’ve used Leopold rx 800. Or an 850 I can’t quite remember which.
It was but I did like. It seemed like a good quality unit. And I’d be very surprised. If these any different as far as quality goes I’m very happy with. All of the Leopold stuff. That I’ve got in my gun safe so let’s have a look at the stats comes in a couple of different colors black blaze orange. And mossy oak that mossy oak one’s quite nice 1600 yard maximum range that’ll be for a reflective target same as the sig six times zoom. And a fairly nice wide field of view good stuff. You like loot pulp stuff. And you’re not a fan of sig for whatever reason. This would be a good option for you it’s very similar in pretty much every way.
Even including the price in Australia. You might end up paying a little bit. More for a Leopold but as. It stands at the moment that’s pretty similar to the SIG’s pricing ii competitive option is we’re going to run with a vortex Ranger. Ihaven’t used the vortex Rangers but. Ihave used a lot of other vortex gear. And I’m a big fan of vortex. They make for this whole sort of high-value target market. That we’re looking at where. You can afford some reasonably good stuff but. You don’t want to destroy your bank account for the next six months vortex is always a good option so a little bit. More poke than the sig. And the loophole goes. All the way out to 1800 yards same six times zoom. And same battery same. Everything but yeah. Iwould definitely look into. That would be a good option. You want to go with vortex third a relative newcomer to my little world. Ihaven’t really know about Athlon optics for a great deal of time but my old man’s got.
One of these little Athlon range finders. And it’s pretty good personally. Iprefer the CG over the Athlon but as. You look at the stats of the Athlon it’s 1200 yards not 1600 buts. Everything else is pretty similar so. You are looking for a slightly cheaper option. You don’t need to range a sixteen hundred yard reflective target. Ican’t really think of a reason why I. Even need sixteen hundred yards of range to be completely honest but yeah the Athlon. Ithink is also a good option. And having used. It feels like a good quality product just as well as the sig does let’s have a look at option number four. We finally have Bushnell. Ithink of Bushnell in the same vein. Ithink of Burris and indeed vortex as well. Ithink they’re all sort of like. All have obviously different levels of their products. They market to different demographics but.
When you’re talking about sort of reasonably priced high value type stuff. Ithink Bushnell’s always worth a look. They have a really good warranty just same as Leopold vortex. And Sig they’re all the lifetime warranty type things. It seems to be the standard for this type of product nowadays, but we’re going out to 1300 yards. And not quite as strong as the sig in the Leopold. And the vortex but still. Than enough to get you want to go different batteries taking a cr123 instead of a the other. One cr2 but still I would think. This would be a very good competitive option so look into. If you’re interested in keeping it bushy so sorry about the audio not really sure. What was going on there I’m testing some new mics.
And we’ve got a little bit of feedback over there but hopefully it’s usable. You guys enjoyed watching the video as much as. Ienjoyed making it. You did gently tickle. That like button and subscribe. You want to see and I’ll catch. You in the next one Cheers
You spend a lot of time on the range as. Whether it’s a site in a new rifle. You just want to spend the afternoon shooting at. Some targets or you’re a hunter. You spend a lot of time out in the field pursuing game. One important accessory. You should always have with. You is a good quality rangefinder hey guys its Jerry. Once again here at hilltop firearms training center in Dover Tennessee. And today we’re going to be looking at the loopholed rx 650 the Arctic 615 really easy to use. One button power is an omen. And allows you to change between modes so. If you’re accustomed to ranging targets. And meters you prefer yards. You can change it out really easy fully multi-coated optic with a six time magnification so. You bring it up range your target that’s gonna bring. That image in six times closer. It makes a little bit easier to range the actual object.
That you’re trying to get the distance on let’s take a closer look at. Some other features we’ll do a little table-top. And I’ll just kind of explain. It works with living so let’s talk about reflective targets as. You can see we have plywood backers way out there. We go out there we staple our targets up. That would be known as a reflective target. It is a clean smooth unobstructed surface. Now the laser rangefinder is going to see. That object say a little bit different. Then an inanimate object such as a tree you’re gonna get your signal you’re going to get your range but. It will look at it slightly different.
It is a difference in its texture a. Few other things that can actually affect. It would be a shiny surface is highly reflective. And easier to range. Than say a dull surface think of a black roof. You have a black roof a lot of the laser as. That roof is going to be absorbed into. Whereas such as a surface such as. This it’s actually going to reflect back off of. It quicker now think of. It as in perspective with game. If you’re in the woods. You see a deer the deer has a hide. That their game coat is like a light color like tan is going to be much. More reflective than say a dark colored animal such as a bear. Because a lot of the surface. That the light of the laser is actually reflecting off of is going to be absorbed in. Some fur so it’s really interesting how. That works lighting conditions haze rain fog other things going on in the environment can affect the lasers accuracy but.
That is with any piece of equipment such as a laser rangefinder okay guys so quickly. More time and explain. How to change between yard. Or meter mode simply with the unit in the powered off position simply depress the button here on the top for approximately 10 seconds after which. You will be able to toggle from yards to meters. Or vice versa you figure out which. You want or the power button so pretty quick. Ihave mine set for yardage but. Iknow a lot of shooters. That come up here do prefer the meters so. You have a choice once again. You do have the ocular adjustment for the clarity depending on your vision really well-made. Ijust like the simplicity of. If you’re out there hunting the last thing you need is. Some other piece of complicated gear simply bring the thing up their range. It releases the button there. You got your yards now here’s.
Something that’s really cool about. This the design of this oh wow say. You have let’s say you’re out hunting you spotted tears across a field. And the deer is moving hold the power button down on the object. And move along with. It will continue to range as the range changes. That feature so you can range a moving object with. This not a lot of range finders have. That feature I also like the construction of the rangefinder itself it’s got. This nice little rubber piece over the top gives. You a good positive grip. If it’s a it’s raining or your hands are quite slippery total vocal adjustment here four different eyes of course. You know depending on your vision. It is powered by one single battery.
It comes out quite easy but you’ve got. This little flip up cap the last. Iwas using was quite difficult it’s powered by. One of the CR two batteries very commonly used in a lot of cameras really nicely designed. Iknow it’s the little details. That sometimes it kind of gets to. This is cool because after. You snug it down then just flip. And you’re good to go that’s actually kind of cool you’ll also notice a little area here. You can attach a lanyard to which. Iwould prefer to have a lanyard on. It in case I was to drop. You could hang it around your neck. And just simply use. It as them you know the monocular. It is in fact alright guys as well. You get a really cool little carry case with the loop Holden’s rx 650 well-made little design. It also allows you to attach. It to your range bag. If you’re out in the field. You can attach some gear well design little carry case to keep the thing protected. What I really thought was just funny. And kind of neat and ingenious actually was.
This a simple little onboard way of carrying a spare battery. Ijust that’s one of the little details that’s kind of stood out to. You least expect and the battery is dead. You can always keep a spare. One onboard according to the owner’s manual the battery life is like 5000 actuations so. Each time you know. This thing approximately you’re gonna get about 5000 times. You can use and range. Something which is pretty impressive I’ve had. Some other range finders in the past. It seemed like they really use the battery life quick. Ihave not had time to test. That but I do like. That feature alright guys. That wraps up our review of the loopholed rx 650 laser rangefinders. You are in the market for a high quality. Yet affordable laser rangefinder.
That is full of features check out the link below it’ll take. You to optics Planets website there is also a special coupon. You can put in to save. More money on an already great price guys. You for watching as always. We will see you soon on the range.
Okay so today went down to sportsmen of our house. Ihad to pick up a few supplies for archery pick up. Some arrows some arrowheads. And throw it along a nice little gadget here the Leopold rx 650 let’s go ahead. And break into what all. This is a total unboxing so okay inside. We have the carry case. And the range finder spare battery. And the instruction booklet let’s go ahead. Everything out see what all. We have here just like a little kid in the candy store. Now originally I was going to go for the five fifty looked online. Iforgot between online. And the store sales so. Ifigured they had. It in the store they didn’t but. They did have the 650 which is about $50. A more little bit better as far as range wise but then. That is pretty much the same. Ireally like the can the casing for it case has got a little clip here instead of velcro which is really nice it’s done by a little string cord. It just pops right in their latch is just fine the case has a little compartment for the battery here. Ididn’t pick up a spare battery but. It did come with a battery, so we’re going to go ahead. And take a look at it has a battery in. It which it will otherwise battery would be dead. Now by itself it’s got a nice little optical zoom so. It kind of works as a monocular. Another good feature. Ilike is the battery case. Or the battery compartment itself. You just flip up the little tab. And twist and there’s the battery compartment let’s go ahead. And open up the battery here take the foil off of.
Now the battery life of. This is 5000 actuations it’s a 3-volt lithium cr2 battery on a power off after five seconds laser radiation measurement up to five rides to 650 yards measure time less. Then a second sounds pretty good looks so let’s put the battery in. What she does looking inside here. It gives you a little diagram of how to put the battery in so. You can’t can’t put. It in the wrong way then. You get the battery in just keep on turning the lid clockwise. When it’s tight put the handle down. And you’re ready to go. Now I’m sitting in the side of the yard here. Igot a complete line to the mailboxes, so we’re going to take a look at. It 28 yards right off the bat works perfect right out of box. Now there’s a satellite dish across the way at 55 yards 54. Now the rangefinders set up like. Isay right out of the box. Ireally like you push down on the button. You want the yardage push. It down again it gives.
You the yardage it’s got a real nice of a design ergonomically correct it’s getting this little rubberized handle here so. That won’t slip or muddy. Or what-have-you when you’re out in the field has an adjustable lens here so. You can slide in on your target make sure. You get a clear shot I’m liking it looks great we’ll have to do. Some further testing and see. It works out in the field until. That time I’m going to go ahead. And just practice with. It a little bit decided to get. Because hunting seasons coming up here pretty soon get about three months to go. And really looking forward to. It also the Decatur case. You’re strapped to your bill. You can hook it on to hook. It on to your gear run.
That was so that’s hanging its hanging right next to. You can have it right next to your binoculars. You want wherever did. Some research on the loop hold 650. And found out they were really good right on the mark read the reviews on. And so far I’m tickled with. What I got so until next time hope. You get hope what you’re hunting for until then I’ll say see. You later and shoot straight you.
Hey guys right now we’re gonna check out a loo-loo pulled rangefinder. This is the rx 650 I just got. This for Christmas so far it’s been good it’s been accurate. And let’s just get to testing it I’m behind the camera right. Now so you’re not gonna see. Me but we’re gonna arrange. This is I’m gonna see. Ican get you guys to look through the rangefinder hey guys. Ijust flipped you guys around on. It ranges it looks to be about 170. Some yards is what I would guess but let. What it ranges out using the loophole rx 650. It is ranging out at about 195. Or 200 yards so my guess was pretty good but. If you’re shooting a deer. You dial your scope. And wrong you could miss at. That distance so I think that’s. All we’re gonna go testing it. Idid a short clip of. Me following some deer with. It earlier you got to be able to look through.
How close I could get to. These deer so um little fog rx 650 650 bucks turner bucks depending on where. You go good deal that’s a gunshot its muzzle a seasoned piece you.
Everyone welcomed into loopholed live thanks for joining us by name is Nick. And we’ve been away for a couple weeks, so we’re gonna come back strong here we’re gonna talk about a really cool topic we’re gonna talk about range finders. Ihave the esteemed Eric Overstrict with. Is so Eric explain a little bit about. What you do here what your role in the range finders is. Iam the technology product line manager so. Imanage all the products. That have batteries in them. And a big piece of that is range finders. Some thermal products. Some other products. That we’ve previously done right so. Ilove talking about range finders. II can geek out about. Iwill tell you guys. You went to central casting and pick the guy. You wanted to create range finders for you. That would be Eric he geeks out on. All the little technical data the long-range ballistic stuff I’m not I’m not making funny. Ithink it’s awesome. And that’s its exactly the kind of passion. And drive you want behind coming up with. These products it really shows too in. What we’re doing so. Ilove talking about hunting and. Ilove talking about Leopold rangefinders right exactly yeah so Eric. How long you’ve been here actually just a little background about yourself. And like you came here. Ihave been here for almost 11 years yeah. And it’s really hard to believe time goes by fast right things.
You love yeah this August I’m 12 years. Istill feel like well there’s a lot of people here. Then 20 30 years right so. It still feels like I’m a bit of a newbie right but. It goes by super fast. And you’ve been running the rangefinder line for most. That time right I have I’ve been the PLM for the rangefinders for those 11 years yeah before coming to loopholed. Iworked for Tektronix okay it’s a local test. And measurement company yeah. Where essentially we developed test equipment. That helps the high-tech manufacturers develop their products so. What would help Intel develop their new chips school help the cell phone companies develop their new insects okay so. That played right into.
This role then it your passion for hunting and shooting I take. It it was a good man sometimes. You got a pincher so. You like is this work actually. Iin my last roll there. Iwas managing spectrum analyzers. And Eric’s gonna say stuff. And I’m gonna go woods. That’s because I don’t know half the stuff Eric says so it’s equipment that’s used in developing handset mobiles. Or radar okay and in my. And those are perfect fits for what we do with range finders essentially radar is using a different type of technology. And doing the exact same thing okay yes. Something out pinging receiving it back yeah okay. And with cell phone development it’s. All about signal-to-noise ratio. And that’s we get our signal out of awesome the noise okay cool.
Ijust want to mention to. You for everyone who is hating on. Us on the other ones we’re going vertical. This time on Instagram so. You can stop typing comments so that’s a big momentous occasion for us. That we’re very cool. Ijust thought that’s funny so let’s talk a little bit about the range finder history so. When did we start doing range finders. What was a 2006 he said 2007 so okay that’s in seven yeah, so we’ve been doing range finders for quite a bit. And they’ve kind of evolved a lot over. That time right technology has moved fast since. That time yeah for sure just to reminder to. Everyone you know type in comments. We actually got a lot of good comments.
Or excuse me questions. We got a lot of good questions from the insta story. We posted yesterday but type questions in we’ll try to get to. All of them we had like 30. Something from yesterday so. Idon’t know if we’ll be able to get to. All of them but we’ll have time for. That’s because I think that’s important a lot of people have a lot of questions about range finders. You know that so tell about range finders. What is actually happening when. You range something let’s kind of break down what’s happening in the rangefinder it’s not magic voodoo too somehow. You know get in that range so the scientific side of. It there could be voodoo yeah there’s there’s a lot of going on essentially the best way to think about a rangefinder is a tool.
That measures the speed of light so. What we do is we have a. We omit 905 nanometer light okay. And that’s a class of laser right kind of it’s its on the spectrum it’s on the spectrum right yeah for reference visible light is in the 300 to. Or 400 to 700 okay nanometers so. We are on the IR side of. That at 9:05 gotcha. Because it’s not visible to the naked eye. When you’re reading. That laser out okay cool so. We omit a rangefinder yeah. We omit the light yeah. It bounces off the target. It comes back we measure the time. It took to do that mm-hmm the speed of light is a constant yeah, so we’re able to take. That time divide it in half yeah. And then know something away is because of. That interesting okay so you’re just sending out a beam it’s hitting something and it’s receiving it back into the rangefinder is doing its scientific mathematical calculation for how long. And then it’s going to give. That range correct cool that’s actually pretty easy to understand.
You break it down in. That simple form there hey maybe. Iover simplified it he’s like no it’s not. That yeah well I think like. What is the most complicated part of. It receive that back. What yeah as range finders evolve. Ithink right now the kind of the benchmark. That everybody’s shooting for is distance right so. Ithink having received channel. That doesn’t introduce a lot of noise into the system. And is able to identify the signal returned from. All the noise that exists in the natural environment from sun from light right. Because yeah I think we’ve talked before environmental factors do play a role into. Each factor you can range right. Idon’t think people realize. That as much right so.
If like rain right can play a role yeah is. That’s because it scatters the light that’s going out is. What happens it scatters. That the nine of the. What we’re omitting the laser. That we’re mitting is bouncing off the rain itself oh okay it’s actually seeing targets at a number of distances out there gotcha so. You might get some wonky readings. Something like that depending on where. Where it’s hitting and coming back to. You okay that is a bigger issue for golf range finders oh yeah so. You know and hunting we’re looking for larger targets yeah. And golf we’re looking for a pin so finding a small pin in a forest of trees. Or building behind it is a challenge actually. When you’ve got fog. Or rain that’s introducing a lot of small targets in front of. It gosh yeah well and — I’ve noticed going to.
Some PRS matches and stuff. They like to hide stuff in trees very small stuff so it’s kind of the same element there you’re having to range really small stuff at extreme distances no. You know more extreme. Then golf but still yeah small stuff so that’s difficult so. Iwant to talk about — a little bit. What makes Leopold rangefinders different from other range finders on the market right there’s a lot of range finders out there. You guys have a lot of choices. We do a couple things. That kind of set us apart I’ll let. You take that so okay yes. That is accurate there were. Some there weren’t a lot of manufacturers. Ishould say marketers of range finders until the last couple years but there were. Some patents that expired in the industry okay. When those expired it was the easy way of doing range finders okay so.
Now we’ve seen a proliferation of small manufacturers. That are just buying chunks from the technologies already there. You just go to a manufacturing go hey. Iwant a rangefinder maybe. You make an industrial design change to the outside of exactly the way. You go right super easy yeah but you’re not innovating right you’re actually designing anything it. One of the things that sets. Us apart is the team. We have here yeah our engineers so. We have on staff double es that’s electrical engineers by the way electrical engineers. They came from Tektronix as well so. These are the guys that have been designing radar. And designing cell phone yes equipment. These are the guys that are experts in being able to perfect getting. That signal out of all the environmental noise. You know what we do is.
We develop something new. We go out together in the parking lot. We start ranging targets. We literally you walk up. And there’s a group of guys with. This cart these range finders set up. That are like they don’t look like. This right it’s just like guts. And wires hanging out. And they’re arranging stuff. And testing it I always thought. That was funny but yeah but yeah. You guys are designing like. Everything from the ground up here right. We do yeah all of our electronics. It allows us to overcome simple things yeah the first time. That really hit home having you know the engineers be here is. We resolve the white/black target issues expand on. That a little bit so what’s the we’re talking about contrast right so. We are yeah so and it’s important for archers okay. Anybody that’s taken a broad head target. And a field target out okay set them up side-by-side. And ranged between them has noticed. It okays you’re going to get a difference of variants.
And readings depending on what if you’re hitting white. Or black correct okay cool. And the reason for when the signal comes back yeah think of your car the parking lot. You have a light color car okay a lot of light reflects off of. It runs your car stays cooler right. You have a dark car right. It absorbs a lot of. That light so the car heats up. And there’s not as much emanating from the car okay same things happens on the targets okay so with the light target. You get a real big power spike coming back okay the return on the laser super strong. Because it’s reflecting. That flecks really well okay. And then with a dark color car. Or dark target yeah it’s very low return so. You can absorb that light. You know unless your engineers are really good. You know they’re looking at the rising edge of. That pulse that’s coming back. And the rising edge is different between a little target in a big target okay wow that’s.
Something I totally never. Even thought of right that’s but. That speaks to the level of detail. You guys go into when you’re designing all. These right and you’re thinking about. All those situations. You might face in the field on the range. Wherever you guys are using range finders right yeah. One other thing I think. That really sets us apart is the optics of the range finders actually I’ve noticed. That a lot of our range finders seem clear. Or brighter than other. Igo out you know I go out. And shoot someone else has. Another rangefinder. Ialways like looking through competitors products wrecks is always interesting to see. If they’re new and I’ve always noticed. That our seem brighter for some reason yeah there’s been a lot of evolution in the displays inside a range finders okay is.
One of the limiting factors to the bike. How much light actually is getting to your eye okay a little bit of background. When range finders first started selling commercially commercial orion fenders became popular there were. They were LCD based okay. And an LCD lets in generally around 18 to 25 percent light okay that’s a limitation of the technology yes not. Somebody can out advance. Somebody else yeah it’s very similar to a digital watch okay. When you’re looking through. That film it’s taking out. That light okay LCDs have evolved. You have high light transmission LCDs which is. What we put in our mid-range products. That got our light transmission up to around 60 65 percent oh wow so for people. That are you know hunting in the early morning or late in the evening it’s a big improvement. Because they’re able to see the animals. Iknow in those witching minutes. And that’s one starts moving around that’s. You know critical shots are taking you really need. That range right yeah so yeah.
And then we evolved from LCDs into loads okay. What stands for organic light-emitting diode okay. And that’s in our higher end ones here the 1600. And the 2800 correct okay cool. And that’s we started putting red. And people call it red displays. Or black displays yeah. What we do there is we’re actually injecting light into the optical path okay so. Than looking through film you’re just looking through optics. Now okay so you end up with roughly 85% light transmission okay but you’re injecting light into. Than injecting yeah an LED yeah. Ithink that’s easy. And that’s super important to. We talk about these longer range finders right 1600 yards 2800 yards at those distances. It gets harder and harder to see so you’re gonna need. That bright image right to make the. You know see the difference between.
You know a branch you know an antler Rock. And a target whatever. You may be shooting at right so supercritical yeah people think. That III wanted to put. That out there it seems like it’s a it’s a race just for the maximum distance but there’s a lot of other factors. That play into I think the brightness of the image is actually. One of them it’s supercritical. How easy it is to read the display like. You were saying like. That the red high contrast display in their yeah is nice easily readable. It’s definitely a consumer preference yeah part of its budget. And part of its consumer preference absolutely yeah. And obviously more expensive to manufacture. And make those enhance the higher-end so yep cool let’s let’s take. Some questions we want to start rolling through. Because man there’s a lot of them. Iguess it’s kind of kin to. What we were talking about here but James wall I’m gonna tell her name wrong James wall Xander are.
All rangefinders created equal. They just as complex is just as complex as finding the right scope. All range finders are not created equal yeah there’s different engine technologies into. You know for example. We first entered the range finder market no7. We were buying an off-the-shelf unit. Somebody else’s technology. We were putting our software. And our TBR ballistic software into. It is our differentiator right but. You know we quickly. We learned we weren’t going to be able to get the improvements out of. We were gonna want right. And the performance improvement so. We started developing our own engine yeah. And that’s we have learned the difference between. You know an MCU based engine. And FPGA based engines performance standards. That come from those super-smart.
And then the signal processing. That comes from that in terms of being able to resolve white. And dark targets and then. You reach the next benchmark for distance yes so that’s that’s cool. Ithink that’s important. It ties into just kind of like the core culture here at loophole is. We are constantly innovating right. We may not always be there’s my little public services announcement right we’re not always the first to market with. Something right there were range finders out there first. That ranged that distance. That range that distance but. We come our there into the market with the product we’ve thoroughly designed. It tested that it’s going to be the best product in.
That segment right when it’s out there. We take our time we just don’t throw. Something out there just to throw. It out there I know I’ve said. That before I just like harping on. That so yeah BJ on Instagram there why aren’t range finding binoculars. More popular good question great question yeah there’s going to be an interesting transformation in the next couple years in terms of electronics. And hardware we’re starting to see electronics proliferate into a lot. More hardware devices but at. Some point the consumer is going to have to decide. Ispend $3000 on a pair of binos. And a year later it doesn’t have the features in. Iwant yeah I want to spend $3000 on a new pair of binos that’s a big investment in the. You know range running by knows themselves. You can’t you know the idea is. You stick two things together. And there should be a significant cost savings right with ranked running by nose. It actually goes the opposite direction right. You take $1000 by know.
You take a $500 range finder. You don’t end up with a $1300 product. You end up with a $3000 right yeah just. They always thought. It was the complexity of. And correct if I’m wrong but in a BIOS. You expect a certain level of optical quality right yeah. You induce or introduced a rangefinder into. That equation now I’m having to send signals out. And receive them back in. And those that that lens system may not work with sending out those signals right so it’s like finding. That balance between. You know premium optical quality. And being able to range accurately right. And again we didn’t want make. Any compromises on that right. And you’ll see that so the answer is yes yeah the glass. It takes to still have a good range find or a good buy no. And a useful range finder is very complicated it’s its fragile.
What you’ll see in a lot of the lower-priced range-finding by notes. That are on the market. These days is they’ve actually got a filter over the display channel so. If the displays in the right channel. And you’re looking through. You close your eyes. And look back and forth you’ll see. That one’s a lot darker. Than the other Oh interesting so there’s a lot of compromise in there on AB. Iknow right you know in. That early morning late in the evening when you’re looking through. It yeah it’s not an optical blindness it’s not an optimal yeah hard to say yeah. Ithink that’s important. That it’s we just don’t want to make compromises. We don’t want to leave. You high when you’re in the field right so not to say we’re not working on.
Anything we’re always working on stuff so stay tuned. You know so let’s see McNeill. Most stellar 26 on Instagram. What is the battery life like great question battery life depends on a number of factors depends on what style display. You have the OLED uses a lot. More battery than an LCD does. That make sense and then in terms of ranging distance. You know our new or long range performance range finders. We omit a lot more pulses in those okay so it’s going to use. More battery life gotcha. However we’ve upgraded the battery as well we’re. Now using a 1-2-3 than a C. Or two in their okay so the battery itself has. More juice in their okay. You know it also depends on how. You use a single button push. You use scan mode yep. One of the biggest drivers for battery consumption is stabilizing the power supply so every time.
You just push to power. You don’t range you are consuming battery life okay yeah good to know excellent. And always carry a spare battery with. You back to our range day. Or hunting kit whatever your kid carry extra batteries on. You’ll be thankful your buddies will be thankful. You have to get them out of a jam not a lot of weight in your pack so. How are ya Colin Gallagher 5 on Instagram. How far do they range. They range in a half of a yard we’ll go over the. When we’re going to go through the line. And tell they range. That interesting part. How far do they range. And half of yardages yeah. We have our so the distance. You know in terms of the accuracy yeah. That resolution okay. And the resolution we’ve got. It down to six inches six to eight inches in terms of what we can do Wow. We speck our accuracy different from. We speck our accuracy to 1/2 yard okay. That’s because when it’s calibrated yeah. You might be aw you know. You might have six eight twelve inches difference from the next rangefinder okay.
That would show up you compare to as an accuracy thing but the resolution itself we’ve got. It down to two just over six inches geez that’s crazy. And that’s throughout the whole line right there. All accurate like that that is correct. Ithink that’s important too so. You do go to the entry level. One you’re not gonna sacrifice accuracy correct. We are measuring in tenths of yards. We aren’t displaying intensive yards but our new range finders. We do display in tents until. You get to the high end stuff. And my belief is. You don’t need to see. You know if you’re using the 2800. Most likely shooting a rifle yeah. You don’t care about a tenth of er yeah that’s actually Chris Campaign there on Facebook.
He asked which models are accurate 2/10 of a yards so. You just answered that’s because specifically. He was talking about bow hunting right. That actually plays the major factor. We talked a little bit about yesterday. We were talking about. That that difference in bows as much. Because the drop is way. More precipitous right then right but ballistics is significantly. More important in archery. It is for rifle absolutely yeah Jake papas an Instagram which rage rangefinders give. You horizontal distance to the target negating the angle horizontal distance today a lot of people market their product as. You know it has an inclination.
And the assumption from. That is they do ballistics. That isn’t the case okay range finders. That have an inclination of the angle x line of sight distance. That is I’m in marketing so. Idon’t know anything about numbers. Or math so you know. II remember being in trig in high school. And thinking I’m never gonna use. This is important. It every day now but trig itself isn’t a great solution it’s an approximate solution okay so. All of our competitors. That market they have the angle capability. What they’re saying is. They do trig some people might know. It as Rifleman’s rule okay real old timers might know. It is the quick fix quick okay. And the important thing to so. What trig does is it gives. You the horizontal distance okay. If your bullet was flying in a vacuum. That would be fine right here on earth. We have atmospheric so the greater the bullet arcs the.
More atmosphere that’s put along. That bullet okay yep so. You start to calculate for the angle. What it’s doing is. It shorten the horizontal distance but your bullet is still arcing so the problem. That gets generated there is. That they’re significantly. More drag on the bullet. You know in the trig solution yeah. And so you’re likely going to shoot low okay. It doesn’t it doesn’t take. That into consideration that’s correct tricky trig does not the ballistic solutions so our TVR does okay yeah our true ballistic range. We have groups so. Than entering in BC’s. We enter groups yes oh. Iguess there’s probably good segue to talk about TVR so. That is our ballistic system. That is encompassed in. These range finders. That is much more accurate. That trigonometry geometry approximation. Even say the words so yeah so expand on. We got blister groups right with the range finder right. They come with a card. That kind of has all your well.
Many calibers on there we’ve got we’ve got 25 groups 25 group solved 999% chance. What you’re shooting is going to be in. One of those groups correct well a hundred percent chance as long as you’re shooting above about 1900 okay feet per second but. And a lot of people out there. That are into ballistics are going to say hey. That doesn’t that’s not going to be super accurate they’re the answer to. That is as so our ballistic solution shoots out to eight hundred yards. And until you get past eight hundred yards the averages. We use for atmosphere for elevation for temperature are good enough for a minute of death okay.
All right that makes. That makes perfect sense. Ithink that’s whenever. We talk to whenever. Italk to Eric about the trigonometry versus the TV. He gets super worked up about. It i-i-i-i a good rule of thumb for. That is trig is a great solution out to four hundred yards for rifle shooters yeah. It works great out to four hundred yards right there’s actually competitors user manuals out there. That don’t use this product past for him so. If you’re shooting at a really high angle 400 yards is probably the limit for trig moderate angles 600 yards is a good rule of thumb probably for trig. And then ya interpolate in between those that’s so Adam along those lines Adam Lingus on Facebook I’m always curious of what angle slash distance the compensation becomes inaccurate so.
We talked about 800 yards so the TV yard is good out to 800 yards right correct. What about he mentioned angle there. We measure our angle to 89 degrees okay. And the in Clinard ‘var the accelerometer. We use to measure angle is really accurate okay um but. You know a lot of people will say. Irule of thumb is as our devices are good at. Any angle okay yeah. You start shooting any realistic angle. That you’re gonna be shooting at right 90 degrees things get a little bit tricky. All right let’s see here. Another good I get a lot of calls yeah. Where people say I was on the edge of the cliff. You know I was shooting straight down. It was 90 degrees very.
Few people are ever in. That environment you know a rule of thumb is at about 25 degrees people start thinking yeah wow. This is crazy steep the only 90 degrees shots I’ve seen is. You see YouTube video. Someone nding into their holster. Idon’t think you know. Iget a rangefinder for. That so let’s see oh. This is a great question so Ernie Bishop on Facebook their thanks for turning in Ernie. What is the Mac disk max distance with your best rangefinder. It you’re with non-reflective targets in bright sunlight snow mirage so non reflective targets. Ithink that’s a great segue into talking about the different kinds of targets. You were ranging and. They function right yeah yes the darker the target yeah. And the smaller the target the less distance.
That you’re going to be able to get out to okay so in terms of what’s our max distance a lot of. It depends on target our newest rangefinder the 2800 we’ve had. It out in the field we’ve compared. It with everybody’s stuff I’m really excited about. This product I’m proud of. This product oh yeah. Me too we’ve been are. It our fourth generation engine the engineers. That have been working on. This is a this is the culmination of three years worth of effort. It shows yeah so how far does. It ranges we limited at three thousand yards. And there’re trade-offs in their so people are gonna say. You know somebody else ranges to three thousand.
And has the capability. You range a stop sign to 3500 the reality is. That doesn’t exist in nature. And you’re never going to be in. That environment right we’ve gotten. Ican routinely get. It with the fir trees here around town out to twenty-seven twenty-eight hundred that’s an occasional target. Ican reach pretty much. Any of the fir trees out to 2300 mm-hmm trees are pretty good at reflecting. That the signal back to the rangefinder. All trees are different yeah that’s true not. All trees are created equal just like. All range finders are created equal. And our fir trees were lucky here in the northwest they’re pretty reflective but for other targets. Ihave never not got a range back on. Anything out to 1800 yards so over a mile yeah we’re good on every target okay that’s good to know. And then we talked a little bit yesterday about rocks right people like to range rocks as reference points but rocks aren’t actually very good at sending.
That signal back to the rangefinder right. That is correct it’s counter intuitive to. What I would think I would think oh yeah. It just lands off the rock. And back to the rangefinder. That makes sense but yeah that’s. Another comment I hear a lot yeah is oh. You know I was raised in a really reflective target. You know a rock wall yeah rocks are different yeah just like the range finders yep. Some are very porous. They scatter the light everywhere yeah. And it’s difficult to get a good range back on same with steel targets like a fresh steel target probably okay but. You got like a pitted steel target that’s got a bunch of divots. And stuff going on you may not be the best thing to be ranging off of so yes. II it’s worth mentioning the 2800. It out in Madras you can get steel out too. You know past a mile easily oh yeah with.
That products yeah cool yeah well. You said eighteen hundred yards you’re good you’re gonna range. Everything inside of. That so oh here we go AJ lamb chop on Instagram. You make them so durable my rx 1000 is a tank. And still running strong. We make them durable. We use them yeah that is a good. What the thousand I’ve. Even accepted units back from people. That have gone through combines really they’ve been harvested in the fields. And I’ve wanted them. You know it’s a trophy is a Wall of shame yeah I’ve exchanged amount with people but. You know we’ve gotten stuff back. You know that have gone through. Everything and still worked just fine yeah. These things are super durable. One of the things too. It has loopholes on the side of. It’s gonna be durable we’ve tested the crap out of these things. That they’re going to not only perform in the field but also survive in the field also so yeah.
Ithink on the these have aluminum chassis don’t. They do sixteen hundred. And sixteen hundred has aluminum chassis yeah. We avoided the aluminum chassis on the 2800 due to weight yeah. We need to aluminum on the inside of. That which is where the unit gets its weight from yep so to counteract. We put right but this is durable high-impact Palmer yeah. Imean that’s super durable so cool let’s see nice so Logan Cummins 93 on Instagram. Icompared by 2800 to a Leica 2700. And a Saiga 2400 and the loopholed smoked in. Both an accuracy and clarity not really a question but that’s cool to hear right love bigger.
Though yeah this is the stuff. That makes Erik super happy so right that’s great. II will I think it’s also important to mention. We talked about some of the differentiators. What makes loop holt different our engineering team has done a lot of work to make sure. That the sunlight doesn’t impact our ranges so on the 2800. What the light we omit the Sun puts out a very similar type of light so. If you’re ranging into the Sun it’s very easy for a rangefinder to become confused okay. And that’s why you’ll see distances limited during bright daylight hours okay the new 2800 it’s its a feature. Iinternally call environmental adaptation but. What we’ve been able to do is negate the effects of the Sun yeah so. What you’ll actually see is in bright daylight ranging into the Sun. We will be able to range just as far. It was low-light conditions.
When traditional range finders do their best kind of correlates to. What we do with scopes right. Some special mechanical stuff lens system stuff inside to negate. When your well yeah. When you’re looking straight like maybe the sun’s rising and. You got a lot of glare. And a lot of light coming in to still be able to see. That target, so I guess kind of took those same kind of learnings. That in the rangefinder right so yeah yes Nick III will say. That one’s more of an electrical fix. And not a physical fix yeah with our scopes. Everything is more optical. Or physical for sure. One is good so mission 22 on Instagram thanks mission 22. You for tuning in which model do. You recommend for three guns. Or ranging out to a thousand-yard ish. It comes to three guns.
It comes down to personal preference yeah the 1600 of the 2800 will do. Both of those easily obviously the 1600 is a slightly smaller package but the 2800 will range a lot further so. It comes down to personal preference for. That but yeah I actually. If my personal preference. Iprobably would choose a 1300. If I’m just choosing one for three guns. And a thousand-yard ish out to 1300 yards it’s its smaller. You can see it’s a little. More compact I know three gun guys are always conscious of how much gear. You got towed around yeah you’re little you’re a little recycled kid. You know stroller with your stuff in. It so let’s face the take-up. And that’s gonna do. Everything you need to do in a three gun match right.
Some of those matches are starting to get incorporate. Some long-range stages. And stuff into it but that’s going to be able to do. Everything you need to do right. It will the 1300 it also has our FPGA based engine so you’re gonna get a lightning-fast response from. It ranges trees regularly out to 1100 easily yeah. And so yeah definitely personal preference yep actually a good Segway let’s talk about the lineup we’ve been mentioning a couple of these models but let’s start. And your entry level. And let’s work all the way up to the 2800 there so. Iour line starts with the 650 yeah. That is our budget friendly product. It uses the traditional LCD so you’re going to get roughly 20% light transmission through. That does great range targets out to 700 easily 800 easily. And then we move up to the 1300 family. That product we upgrade the engine in. We start to display in tents for archers ok the product uses our FPGA engine so you’re gonna see it’s really fast you’re gonna get your responses back very quickly actually so.
These are a little different engine from. This entry-level 650 right there correct okay. We introduced our in climate err. And our TBR ballistics ok the 1300s. We talked about before. That full draw 3 that archery specific model 2 right. That is correct that does the horizontal distance in archery out to 175 yards yep so that’s the that’s the max distance for the archery mode on. That right correct cool. And then jumping up to. That so the next in the line is our 1600 family. We introduce our OLED display yeah. It has the same TV our software inside of. We do our ballistics out to 850. We have a variety of finishes.
Ilike to call the blaze orange rangefinder the second rangefinder. That you’ll buy I actually have. One in my range kit. And well I mean people like will pull. And be like what are. What really and I’m like. Idon’t love the look of. It but man I’m never gonna lose. This thing right yeah. Icould leave it over there leave a hundred yards away right you’re gonna find it so. It comes down to personal preference. And choice of patterns but yeah. You know a lot of people are afraid. That an animal might be able to see. It cannot and so but. You can so you sit down on a stump yeah. And you’re ranging everything and. You leave it on the stump yeah you’re gonna see. That a lot better than you’re gonna see. That excellent point very well-thought-out. And then we move up to the new product for this year the 2800. This is our latest and greatest it’s got.
All the bells and whistles it’ll wash your dishes park your car for you’ve earned. What are the price points on. Iknow people are probably interested not to sound super infomercial II yeah. We started around roughly 180. And then move up to the new 2800 said five hundred dollars okay so. Imean five hundred dollars for. That performance that’s actually not super bad let’s see. We were gonna get this question so Robinson outdoors on IG are the range finders covered under the gold ring warranty so our range finders are covered under the electric electronic warranty yep there’s a two-year warranty it’s a two-year warranty. Something you know our customers they’ve been buying rifle scopes. And binoculars for 70 years yep. They want their products to last. And there’s an expectation around a lifetime warranty yep unfortunately electronics will eventually fail it’s just it’s the physical limitations of where electronics are yes right so it’s its exactly like your cell phone your TV at home it’s gonna die.
All the features inside of your car yeah. They will fail, and so we’ve put a very generous two-year warranty on. And we’re always a little bit flexible here at loopholed. When somebody calls up. Because absolutely it’s difficult to know. You purchase it but detox on Instagram does accuracy lesson at increased distances. It does a number of people SPECT their accuracy is a percentage. Ifeel very confident in our higher-end products in terms of accuracy. It comes down to a timing issue okay. Itrust our EE engineering designer he’s got a date dialed he’s got dialed in he’s been figuring out. How to detect planes from. Many miles away he knows exactly. He knows exactly how to nail. That’s a good I wanted to talk a little bit about the 2800 since its new. And talked about the Alpha IQ system. That so it’s a new engine for. That talking about long range.
And increased accuracy distance so explain a little bit. That alpha IQ system means alright. We branded our first engine with DNA digitally enhanced accuracy that’s. We started overcoming some of these white dark target issues distance accuracy issues. And then with our new engine so our Gen 4 engine. It the Alpha IQ we’ve incorporated those same DNA capabilities, but we’ve souped. It up so yeah where our traditional range finders put out roughly six to seven hundred pulses in a second our new alpha IQ engine is putting out 13000 pulses a second so. You went from seven to eight hundred. Or 79 over whatever was to thirteen thousand correct okay. That makes sense why it’s so fast. You get a reading back at the distance right correct yeah crazy there’s a lot of other things going on in order to get. That distance back as quickly as possible yeah but with.
That yeah with the 13000 per pulse. And we’re right up against the eye safety limits there okay yeah. All of our products are class three R which is eye safe okay. We submit everything to the FDA that’s that’s. This snazzy little yellow label. We have to put on the back of the range finders kind of screws up the aesthetics of. You know you’re legally obligated to have to do. That so yeah good question from gee-whiz e18 on Instagram which model would. You recommend when paired with a cds scope setup dialing out the 700 gr. Any of our products from the 13 up to the 2800 yep. All incorporate choosing your ballistics yeah. And there’s a lot of belief out there. You have ballistics on a dial. That your rangefinder doesn’t need ballistics yeah.
That is not true okay. You need ballistics inside of the rangefinder in order to give. That shoot tube distance okay. Where the dial accommodates for the environmental factors mm-hmm the TBR inside of the rangefinder is what’s going to give. That accurate distance okay. And then you can dial. It on the dial that accurate distance. You ranged in size range finder that’s correct okay. Iso from the 13 up to the 2800. All use the TBR W it is the fastest. Most accurate solution out there yeah you’re not having to look at data tables. And things it’s a range dial yeah that’s its a great point talking about the kit. And talking about how the products. You know work in conjunction with. Each other so you choose your ballistic group. You get your ballistics dialed. And the rangefinder. You arrange you get your custom dial with. That cds system we take your specific ballistics off the rifle muzzle velocity ballistic coefficient your environmental data.
What type of bullet you’re shooting we do. That math for you it on a custom dial. That has yardages on the side of. It like Eric said you got to do range with. That accurate TBR range dial the dial to. That range so it’s 550 yards. You dial to 55 use the center your reticle. And it’s its super simple so. It is yeah it takes a lot of guesswork out. And which is to me it’s important you’re out there. You know buck fever is a real thing people get a little. You know freaked out. When they’re gonna maybe. You take their you know. If you’re a seasoned hunter. You get excited right yep. And the last thing I want to do again being a marketing guy who doesn’t do math is done math right in the field so the simpler.
Ican make it for myself. We better we have worked to take. All those capabilities out of there for sure. You know I’ve read some questions over the years in terms of our ballistics. You know if you’re not putting in your BC. If you’re not putting in your elevation. We mentioned this briefly a minute ago out to 800 yards our solution actually. We are within 1/2 MOA at 600 yards oh so. We are typically better. Than peoples capability. Or people’s rifles and our TBR solution. We have 25 groups and that’s zeroed in at 200. Somebody says hey how come. You stopped it at 800 yards hokum. You can’t go further well past 800 yards. All those other conditions become so much of a factor. That to get from 800 to 900 we’d have to go from 25 to groups to 250 groups yeah. And to get another 100 yards after. That we’d probably have to go to 2000 groups okay which would be a little overwhelming for sure let’s see. Ijust want to you know common issues slash tips. And tricks that maybe.
You would recommend to people. When they’re using range finders the. We get the most talking to the tech service guys. That are at one 1-800 loophole there. You have an issue is sometimes you’ll have our tree mode. Or bow mode on in one of these. That bow mode only you can only arrange 175 yards that’s the max distance so. They try to arrange. Something further they can’t get a distance. We do give a distance so. That was in our earlier range fine okay so. We fixed that. We did fix what had happened there. We haven’t sold a product like. That for ten years okay well. We still get questions about the way. We do but for our new. Once you’ve hit the limit of the ballistics no matter. What product you have. It converts over to line-of-sight mode okay. We blink a little LS down there to make sure. You can tell now in l OS mode but. That would go out to the TBR like TBR for instant goes to 800 sos by bringing something past 800 it’s just going to give.
That line of sight distance that’s correct okay. That makes sense any other kind of tips. Or tricks someone asked. Ican’t remember was. They were talking about oh yeah Nathan Way on Facebook. How does the early morning fog. You affect arranging I’m sorry early morning yeah fog. Or do so not specifically rain but maybe. Some mist something coming up from fields. You know so the rain. And the fog it’s very similar to the noise. We talked about earlier okay. And our 2800 so the answer is. This yes and depending on the quality of the rangefinder depends on the effect of what you’re going to see yeah there was as well. Another effect it depends on how the software inside of the unit is processed okay a common question. We get is can one rangefinder for golf. And honey and unfortunately so the answer. That would be yes but you’re gonna make compromises for. That in golf we set the software to look for first target capability which is.
We were able to find a flag in front of a forest of trees behind. You know a flag puts off a very small return. Where a tree behind it’s going to put off. You know in a short distance gonna put off a very large return we’re in hunting you’re looking for a deer. Or a tree and you’re not looking for these super small targets different situation maybe it’s a right tool for the right job yeah. Ican drive a nail in with a sledge hammer but. It may not be the best way to do. It rights yeah okay cool so it’s. Some other I like to break down common issues into. Both technical and user okay so for technical issues. We talked a little bit about. You know say first target technology versus. Most target one is people thinking.
That the target is reflective okay. We talked a little bit about. That yeah you know the darker a target is. More porous a target is the worse the capabilities are okay yeah a. It showed itself in earlier range finders with black foam targets on a 3d course okay for archery shooters super porous. And absolutely yeah that’s super black yeah. Isuspect I’m still waiting for my invite to go in. And access hunt in Hawaii meeting. That lava would be the absolute worst. Some walk over there but it’s not quite axis deer hunting in that’s correct. II’m waiting for a z-axis deer to go do. Some testing well you can get. Another issue is a common alright I’ll call. This a misperception okay over the years there’s a lot of questions. Somebody says what’s your beam divergence. And my belief is. Anybody is asking about being divergence is asking.
That question they think. That the smallest beam divergence will be the longest ranging capability out there okay. That definitely is not the case oh okay beam divergence is a function so. You know similar to the horsepower of an engine inside of a car. You can have you know a really tight divert. This case you know an engine. That has a lot of horsepower but. If your transmission is only geared to get. You know not to get out of first gear you’re gonna have a lot of torque but you’re not gonna have a lot of top speed okay. And so it’s very similar with our range finders. Where being able to get the single back process the noise out of. It is just as important.
More important as well as just the power levels so. How much your drive so it’s really about. These things working in conjunction with sister it’s not. One thing or the other the range finder engine is a system just like our CD s. And in TBR is the system hunter 77 on Instagram. This question was going to come up to who maybe will tease a little bit does the 2800 have a ballistic calculator. We are continuously innovating new products stay tuned. That answer so Eric. Ijust want any last words. You want to say about the range finders. Anything we missed. II’m available here. If people have questions Eric’s direct line to his desk. II could talk you need to cut. When you’re done with. You know other what are. Some other things you know. Another thing that’s great about having the team work here. You know for say is false positives.
We always felt like giving somebody the wrong information was going to be a bigger issue. Than not giving somebody information at. All yeah so one of the things. We make sure we do is not provide people false positives okay. That comes from establishing a threshold for noise. We identify our targets. You know for example with a new twenty-eight hundred we’ve set. We are likely to only get a false reading in. One in ten thousand oh yeah so. We have compromised. What our max distance could be in order make sure. We never provide somebody a wrong information super important. That goes through kind of. Everything we do these loopholed lives. We get to pull back the curtain a little bit. And explain why we did. Something like that right why didn’t. You why is it your Mac distance four thousand yards. Something like that well because of.
That right so I’m so glad. You asked that you’re interested so. You know another trade-off. We make here with range finders in terms of what your max distance capability is so. We could set the max distance on. This to be significantly. More yeah but you’re likely only to get. You know license plates stop signs street signs okay but. What you do compromise is the number of pulses. You can omit think of. This way you send a pulse out. We have to get that back before. We send the next one out in order to be sure. What we’re ranging okay so. You know similar to radar your max distance. You can range it’s going to be limited to the number of pulses. More pulses we send out the. More likely we are to get a target reading back okay.
That makes sense okay yeah should. That a different way no. That made sense okay so but again to the point like. We could totally stretch legs on. This thing out a little bit. More yep then you’re compromising other you’re only gonna pick up targets. That don’t exist in the environment yeah. We want to make sure. That we’re proposing yeah for steal for targets. That people are going to be. What you’re actually gonna be using in the field right yeah excellent okay awesome Eric thank. You so much for coming by. And sharing about the product. That answered a lot of questions. You guys probably have. More questions feel free to type them in the comments. And we’ll get back to. Ididn’t get through. You know half these here they’re super good questions but like.
Isaid type them out. You know we encourage. You guys to sign up go on Luke welkom sign up for the core insider newsletter. That way we launch new products like. This twenty-eight hundred. Or maybe whatever is coming next. You get an email and you’re the first to know about. That new product coming out. We got a lot of other cool stuff on there too cool stories cool in the field tips tricks. That kind of stuff in the sign up for the core insider newsletter. And yeah it’s its awesome so until next time thanks guys for joining us thanks Nick yeah.
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What’s going on guys I’m John. Another product review for you today we’re looking at the Ranger 1500 range finder by vortex let. Me break this video down for you real quick we’re going to unbox. It we’re going to physically look at. And then I’m going to field-test the thing we’re going to look at durability accuracy distance capabilities we’re going to check out. It does in low-light. And then I’m going to wrap. It up with pros cons. Where to get how much. It costs and that’s. It so here we go okay the vortex Ranger 1500 is still in the box let’s check. It out inside we’ve got a soft sided case with a rangefinder in. That aside also a little cheat card here for a slope. And drop got the manual got a allen wrench the neck lanyard. One lithium cr2 battery. Ithink that’s it alright lets’s take a look at. This thing it’s really pretty small 39 inches long 3 inches wide. And it’s only 7 point 7 ounces you’ll notice there’s a rubber coating on. It green keeps. It a little bit more durable. And actually gives you a better grip on the thing the lenses are fully multi-coated the front. You have the 22 millimeter objective lens.
This rangefinder has a magnification of 6. We look on the back you’ll see the eye cup here. This is actually you manually focus. This rangefinder below that’s. Where the battery goes let’s throw. That in quick just grab a coin drop the battery in a couple other things. If you’re going to put the lanyard on. You can see there’s a couple little holes here. And that’s where the neck lanyard goes right there. And on the side there’s a utility clip so. You want to put this on your pack. You want to put it in your pocket your belt um that’s. What that’s for and. You can actually use the eleanor wrench. Ishowed you can take. You can flip it to the other side depending on. If you’re right or left-handed. You don’t like you can just pull. It rights off on the bottom there’s the tripod socket. You want to use this thing with the tripod. And then on the top pretty simple there’s just two buttons the.
One closest to your. Isays measure the one further from your is menu. This rangefinder has. All rings that seal the product against moisture so essentially it’s waterproof it’s also fogged proof alright. You have the battery in to turn. You have to do is hit the measure button. Once in the display will pop up I’m going to show. You the display right. Now it’s not a great picture but kind of gives. You an idea once the display is showing you just have to hit the measure button the second time. That will give you your basic measurement so. Once to turn once to measure that’s. This rangefinder also has a scan mode so instead of. Once to turn it wants to take a measurement. You can do once to turn. And then hold the measure button down. What you can do is just scan.
Everything the rangefinder hits. It will continually give. You updated distances as far as getting into the menu. And changing some of the settings. That kept it pretty simple so the second button here furthest from your eye is the menu button. What you do is hold. It down for 4 seconds 1 2 3 4. And then you’re going to be in the menu mode. And there’s only really three options of things. You can change the first. You can change it from meters to yards. Or yards to meters the second thing you can do is change from HCD mode which is their angle compensating mode to the l OS mode which is just the line-of-sight mode. And the third thing you can do is just change the brightness of the display there’s three different brightness es so there. You go that’s the physical rundown of. This rangefinder we also just went through the basics of functionality we’re going to get into.
Some of those a little bit. We field test the product the first thing I looked at was the waterproof claim. What I did was submerged. This rangefinder underwater multiple times. It at the beginning of the field test. Iwanted to see it would crap out on. Me right away something would happen as the field testing went on but. You know what it checked out okay. That being said I wouldn’t take. This thing scuba diving on your next trip to the Caribbean but. It gets wet in field. Iwouldn’t sweat it the next thing I did was checked out the anti-fog properties. This thing is purged with nitrogen. It has the waterproof. All rings so no moisture is supposed to get inside of.
What I did was I wanted to shake. It up a little bit and go from extreme cold to warm back to cold so. This thing in the freezer. Ihad no issue whatsoever with internal fall game. Now don’t be confused. These companies say anti-fog. It means internal fogging not external fogging like the fog. You get on the outside of the glass. You breathe on you go from warm to cold. Something like I did get a little bit of fog on the glass doing. That as with all optics but. What they’re talking about here is the internal fogging no issues whatsoever ok guys before. Itest out the distance in the accuracy it’s important for you to know. That vortex advertises. This range finder has distance capabilities for non-reflective targets at 750 yards. And reflective targets at 1500 yards in. This works at angles is extreme as plus. Or minus 60 degrees so. Istarted small looking at basic accuracy. Ipulled the tape I took readings at 50 yards 40 yards 30 20 10.
And 9 yards every reading was spot-on including the 10 yards but. Idropped down to 9 yards no reading whatsoever the next thing I wanted to do was test out the distance capabilities so. Irecruited the team an. We found ourselves a better vantage point. We started pumping some distances out measurements can be taken two different ways let’s use. This tree as an example the first. One is the L OS or line-of-sight mode. When you’re in the L o s mode think about a line going straight from your eyeball right to the tree. And the rangefinder gave. Is a distance of 18 yards in an angle of negative 29 degrees switch to HCD mode which is the horizontal component distance. What the rangefinder does is.
It takes the line-of-sight measurement. And the angle it does the math. It gives you the true horizontal distance. If you’re hunting from a tree stand. Some extreme elevations. This is the distance. That you’re going to want to use. You take a shot in this scenario the tree had horizontal distance 15 yards. Me rattle off some other horizontal distances. We looked at the first object. We looked at was this well cap. We were unable to pick up in HCD reading and here’s why in line-of-sight mode. We arranged it at 11 yards but. It had an extreme angle of negative 56 degrees so. You do the math that distance would have come in under 10 yards in HCD mode in. This range fighter doesn’t pick up objects under 10 yards so here’s the rule of thumb with. This product if you’re close to an object but you’re unable to pick up a distance. You can assume that it’s under 10 yards next. This wheelbarrow at 29 yards the decoy at 123 yards.
This road sign at 304 yards the shed at 5:17 the tree line at 9:36. This blue silo at 1435 yards. We went back and cross-referenced the distance with. Some satellite imagery. We found that the actual distance was. One thousand four hundred. And thirty-three yards which was only two yards off vortex claims a variance of plus. Or minus three yards at. Any object fifteen hundred yards away. And our two yards off was well within the margin of error next. We tried another silo but with no luck. We couldn’t get a reading on the L o s mode. Or the HDD mode what we found out. We cross-referenced the satellite imagery again was.
This silo was over eighteen hundred yards away so outside of the capabilities of. This product all right you’re probably saying that’s good. Everything but John. Idon’t hunt silos I don’t hunt wheelbarrows. Ihunt non-reflective soft targets like deer bear elk. Iwas wondering the same thing so. Iwent out recruited. Some friends to help. Me not only was I able to connect on multiple animals under 100 yards but. Iwas also able to connect on cows at five fifty-five six forties. And seven hundred and eleven yards the next thing I wanted to do was test. This product in a low light scenario so. Iset my decoy up at fifty-nine yards. Itook my first reading at sunset. Itook my second reading thirty minutes after sunset which typically is the end of shooting hours the evening. Idid the low-light testing was just a.
Few days after the new moon so. Ididn’t get much help from the moon as far as additional light. Iwas easily able to make out the decoy. And range it 10 minutes after shooting light 20 minutes after shooting light as. You can see I ran out of camera light but. Iwas still able to pick up the decoy. And range and then 30 minutes after shooting late again with no camera light. Iwas able to just pick up the white on the belly of the whitetail so. This thing had low light capabilities almost a full hour after sunset. Or a half an hour after legal shooting hours just a disclaimer don’t hunt after legal shooting hours as. It is illegal but I just did. This to show how good. It worked in low-light the last thing I want to do is just touch on the scan mode again. What you can do is hold the measure button in. And just scan in everything the rangefinder hits it’s going to continually keep pumping out distances for you.
This works great in two different scenarios. One trying to pick up distances on really far away objects. It doesn’t take much. That measure button to bump. It a little bit if it’s on a tripod just hitting the button will bump. It enough you can miss a target completely at 12. Or 13 hundred yards. If you’re in scan mode. You can keep hovering around. That object until you get a good reading the second scenario. You guys have all been there you’re sitting in your stand you’re trying to range multiple trees around your stand to get an idea. How far away everything is there’s. One tree you’ve been trying to hit but every time. You range it you’re hitting some of the branches. Or brush and foreground again. If you’re in scan mode hold. That button down you can just hover until.
You find that hole. It gives you a reading right through to. That tree you’ll be good to go. All right I think that’s. Everything so let’s move on to pros cons. How much where to get the thing okay guys let’s talk about the pros the distance is checked out fine the accuracy checked out fine the angle compensation seemed to work great. You guys saw we had no issues with water. Ireally like the fact. That the display offered three different brightness es depending on how dark. Or light it is outside the scan mode was a cool feature in the utility clip is. Something that’s unique. That I’ll be taking advantage of. This fall ok let’s move over to cons the only possible issue. Ifound with this rangefinder is. If you’re that really wants a rangefinder that’s going to pick up objects less. That 10 yard mark you might want to look for something else otherwise. This rangefinder just checked out to be really solid ok guys I’m going to take.
One step further if you’re familiar with vortexes first range finder the Ranger 1000 after looking at countless reviews there were two things. That jumped off the page as potential negatives the first is customers weren’t thrilled. You had to push the button three times to get reading they fixed. That with this new rangefinder the 1500. You only have to do. Once to turn once to get a measurement. And the second thing is. Some people said the Ranger 1000 had a slower processor speed meaning you hit the button. You wait a little bit. And then you get your distance. Ihad no problems field testing the range of 1500. Ihit the button immediately got a distance no issues there. One of the limitations of. This video was I didn’t look at battery life whatsoever the good thing about. When you’re looking through the display on the rangefinder. It actually has a battery meter so. You guys can always see. What the battery life is on the rangefinder.
If for some reason this thing you know runs out of battery two. Or three months down the road I’ll put a comment below. This video to let you guys know. That hey the battery didn’t hold up alright so. Where do how much does. It cost a good thing to do would be to go over to Vortex’s website I’m going to leave the link below. This video in the information it’s always a good place to start but about four hundred. And eighty dollars and I’ve seen. It at Midway USA online Cabala’s Bass Pro Shop Sportsman’s Warehouse so. You can get it pretty much anywhere. You guys have local sports shops. That carry any of the vortex optics. They can get it for you to the last thing. Ido want to touch on is the warranty. That vortex has I usually don’t talk about warranties. Unless it’s a really good. This is a really good.
One so basically their VIP warranty says. If it’s got the vortex name on. It no receipts no registrations. Something goes wrong with. It to them, and they’re going to take care of. It hurts to lay out a lot of money for optics. Any optics not just. That kind of warranty to back. You can feel pretty good about making the one-time purchase. All right guys that’s. You liked the video make sure. You subscribe to the antlers core dot-com YouTube channel hit. That little red subscribe button we’ve been pumping out a video every two weeks for about the last seven months. And I’m going to take. One step further I’m going to give. You the $000 it costs to subscribe to my channel otherwise keep an eye out for my next video we’ll see.
To complete the programming we’ll use the measure. And menu buttons on top of the Ranger 1000 to begin simply press. And release the measure button briefly to bring up the display. Once the display is up press. And hold the menu button down for four seconds until the mode selection screen displays then release the button. Now you’re in the mode choice for HCD. Or l OS simply press the measure button briefly to toggle between HCD. And l OS press and released it’ll toggle back. And forth you in the mode choice. You prefer briefly press the menu button. It will save that setting now the display moves to the yards meters choice again simply press. And release the measure button briefly to toggle between yards. And meters once you’re in the mode. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. That setting the display. Now moves to the brightness choice use the measure button press.
And release briefly to toggle through three levels of brightness. Once you’re in the brightness. You prefer press and release the menu button briefly to save. It the display now returns to HCD l OS. You have the settings. All set as you prefer. You can simply press. And hold the menu button for four seconds to save. These settings and exit the mode selection process. This can also be done at. Any time through the process well that’s. All there’s to know you’re. All set to take your Ranger 1000 out in the field.
This is Paul nice with vortex optics here today to talk about our new Ranger 1000 laser rangefinder the Ranger is a compact rubber armored laser rangefinder weighing about seven. And a half ounces this model is going to give about a thousand-yard performance on reflective targets. And about 500 yards on game we’ll take a look at. Some details of the Ranger uses is six by twenty-two objective lens here for nice bright sharp images on the top of the Ranger. We have the two control buttons. This is the menu button. This will be the main measure button for running the laser here. We have an adjustable eyepiece which can be used to sharpen the focus for individual users the Ranger has. Another nice unique feature. And that’s this removable clip. This is very handy can be used on about pocket straps. Anything you’re comfortable attaching it to. It will work fine this clip is also reversible. It can be installed for right. Or left-hand users on the laser. We also have sockets on the top here to attach a lanyard which is included along with the Ranger so. This can be used again for. Either right or left-handed users on top. We have the battery install spot just remove. This cap and put your battery in with a positive terminal facing upwards the Ranger uses a cr2 battery we’ll touch quickly on the programming of the laser the Ranger 1000 offers quick. And easy programming with two main modes of primary HDD mode for most users along with an L os mode. Both of these modes can scan continuously. If desired users can also choose three different levels of brightness.
They prefer the range in meters. Or yards for more information on the modes go to vortex optics comm. And look at the Ranger 1000 manual there along with additional product videos on the Ranger. Everything is set and the modes are chosen to range with the Ranger is very easy to do simply bring it to your eye do. One tap to activate the display a second tap to bring up the crosshair put the crosshair on the target. You wish to range and tap again. And a yardage number will be displayed well that’s. It for the Ranger 1000. If you’re looking for a tough compact little laser that’ll get. You out to a thousand yards. And take care of slope computations the Ranger is. This product is also covered by our limited lifetime warranty.
The precision the quality. Ilove the fact that the quickness of. Ican get a quick range on. It on from any distance. And so that’s why I go with. This guy you know success in. This field it’s proven. And it’s also helpful. When I’m at home practicing getting ready for practicing it at my yardages. Ilike the LED screen gives. You the readings of the yardage last year on an archery hunt up here in Salt Lake deer jumped up 60 yards for me just had enough time. And enough light to use the rangefinder with a digital screen. It comes on it gives. You the reading that helped. Me out on the other ones. It just gives you the black screen. It wouldn’t be able to tell. You know what yardage.
So for text optics is a company that’s taken the outdoor industry by storm for producing great quality products at an affordable price. And a warranty that’s absolutely second to. You know for 2012 they’ve launched their first ever laser rangefinder it’s compact durable. And extremely easy to use. It is slightly larger. Than a business card. And only weighs in at seven. And a half ounces it comes with a heavy-duty belt clip. That is secured with three heavy-duty metal screws which will stand years of punishment the housing is covered with a rubberized armor coating making the easy to grip as well as adding to its durability. You know the internal operation of. This little piece of equipment is. What makes it so special for Texas taken. What can be very complicated in a rangefinder. And made it very simple. You know if you’re the kind of person. That likes to open the box throw in the batteries. And hit the field without reading a lot of instructions like. This unit is just for you it’s preset at the factory for the. Most widely-used program which is HCD yard. And medium illumination the HC D stands for horizontal component distance which. That means it takes into account your direct line-of-sight your percentage of angle. And then gives what you exactly need to hold for to make a killing shot let’s assume you’ve got a shot at a bore at 475 yards at a serious uphill angle about 20 degrees like.
Ihad here on the Tohono ranch yesterday. This rangefinder told. Me to shoot it for 425 yards the lo. And behold I know right. Where my gun hits we put the smackdown on. That big board he went 80 yards. You know the other adjustment. You can make to this rangefinder is. You can actually choose line of sight so. What that’s going to do for you it’s going to tell. You the actual yardage. Or meters to your specific target it’s also going to tell. Or decline in angle. This being said you’re going to need to have a PDA. Some sort of external device on your smartphone. You can go ahead and plug in. All of your data and get your exact holdover. That you’re going to need but basically the way.
This king comes set from the factory is going to be. You need from pretty much 95% of the shooters. That are out there so the ranger 1000 is accurate from 11 yards. All the way out to a thousand-yard so buildings. And rock reflective targets. It says down to a thousand yards. We were consistently able to hit. That on a regular basis but the booklet. That comes with it says deer size targets. Or in our case bore out here on the Tejanos is. It says up to 500 yards. We were able to consistently get. Even in low-light conditions well past the 500 yard mark so really accurate. And really a great piece of equipment. Isaid before this item is very simple it’s basically got three adjustments. Either got HDC or line of sight do. Either choose yards. Or meters and then you’ve got three different levels of illumination. We did find it did come preset at medium. We did find that the higher level illumination was about the best especially.
If you’re out there in bright sunny days. One other thing that really deserves to mention with. This rangefinder is the scan mode. Anybody who’s ever been out there. And needed to use of their rangefinder. Whether it’s in fog rain. You can’t get a yardage. And possibly make a killing shot on an animal that’s. Something that always concerns. Me with a rangefinder. And the scan mode which is super easy to get into basically push. One button down for four seconds. It will continue to take readings. And we’ve always been able to get a good reading in the rain. And the fog we’ve tested. This unit in you know there’s just not a lot to say other. This thing is just simple. And very easy to use accurate for short range archery. All the way out to long range rifle. You know one thing for techs. It comes with a warranty that’s just absolutely second to. None stop by Sportsman’s Warehouse take a look at the new vortex Ranger 1000 for yourself.
Hey guys you’re watching meet a lot of TVs today. Iwant to show you the Ranger 1000 what ex-ranger 1000 is a laser rangefinder. And with this device it’s possible to read distances up to a thousand yards. And it’s possible to compensate for angle also for this device. Ihad to pay three hundred. And seventy-nine euros here in Germany okay let. Some details I use the Ranger mon-sol for my body. This year is my personal. And it’s brand-new so it’s its like an unboxing video as well. And yeah I bought a wort X again because of their. We IP warranty what ex products. They are really solid so the laser rangefinder is from. What X also here are. Some dimensions three point nine inches long so it’s a very compact seven point seven ounces in weight. And yeah it’s a compact model up to a thousand yards reading as possible. You want to read something like endear. Or so it’s possible up to 500 yards as well. It comes with a utility clip lanyard a soft case. And the battery which is needed okay. Now let’s open up the box. And start with it here is a battery the soft case with the range fire inside a manual the lanyard. And an Allen wrench key with. You can remove the clip. You can put this on the left. Or right the right side like. You would like it to use. And like you before 379 euros here in Germany in 2015 that’s. What I have to pay or had to pay. This is not cheap by. Any means but because of the. We IP warranty and because of their high quality in. This price range if the 379 euros world well-spent okay. These are all the path. That comes with a laser rangefinder.
And here is a small device 6 by 22. Iforgot to tell it looks very good small enough to put. It in every pocket of your jacket oh. You can use it with the clip at the belt there is a rubber finish which is very nice. You got wet hands I think the clip here is unique. Inever saw this on other laser rangefinders. And look at this is very compact okay. Iwant to put the battery inside it’s possible to switch between meters. And yards here in Germany. Ithink metric so I use meters. And there are 2 Modi available. You can choose the line of sight. You can choose the HDD mode which is angle compensated distance reading this is.
What I want like to use ok so. Iput the battery inside. This device and then. Iswitch the camera back on again to show. It looks like you watch through the device okay push. You activate the device which twice there is a crosshair. And at the third push at the button. You can read the distance okay. Now not so shaky I’ve raised a picture to show. Some details it’s the HDD mode which is a compensated angle reading distance to the roof next 74 meters. You can see the crosshair okay guys. This was my short video about the vortex Ranger 1000. This device here because I’m able to read up to a thousand yards which is very important for shooting my 308 Winchester. This device here comes with angle compensated reading this year was an unboxing video. And we’ll make another video. Some experience with. This device here outdoor. And yeah so stay tuned for follow-up video. You enjoyed this video please vote subscribe. And leave a comment thank.
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All right hey good hello. This is Ryan’s breathe outdoors today. Iwill be unboxing the new vortex Ranger 1000 from vortex optics hey. This is Ryan with breathe outdoors again coming to. You today about rangefinders a couple years ago actually. Ibought a nikon aculon rangefinder. It was a great rangefinder. It worked great for me up into the point last week. Iwas out shooting in the yard. Imust have dropped. Or forgot about it was in the grass. It was actually hit by a lawn mower so. Ihad to get a new rangefinder. Some things that the aculon didn’t have. Iwas looking for was the arc technology so. When I’m looking out on my tree stand. Isee a deer either uphill. Or downhill it’ll tell. Me the actual true yardage taking into account the angle so. Iwent ahead some research. Ifound a rangefinder. Iwanted to try it out for a bunch of different reasons. It was the vortex Ranger. Once out taking a look at. These does have the arc technology on. Another thing that does have. Iwanted was a illuminated display so. Ilook through it’ll tell. Me my yardage it comes up in red the aculon came up in black so. It was dark you couldn’t see. What your yard was one will fix. That problem and I’ll be able to see. All times so let’s get. This thing open here. Another good plus to. Any war Tech’s item is the warranty. That comes with it I’m not sure. You know about or not but in my opinion. They have one of the best warranties out there in the hunting industry right. Anything happens to. All for the lifetime of the product. Iwill be able to send. It back to vortex and get a new.
It out of the tree stand. It breaks I’ll be able to take. And send it back to vortex so. That is a major plus for the hunting industry. And for the types of thing. This will come along with. This range finder it’s good from 11 yards out to a thousand yards is. What it’s rated for right. It is has a magnification of six so it’s pretty similar to. What the aculon was. It can go a little bit farther but like. Isaid before it does have the arc technology. And illuminated display which are two things. Iwas looking for so I’m gonna take. This thing out in hunting season. This year and then. When I’m done with hunting season. Or halfway through hunting season. Iwill come back to. You know what this looks like so it’s been about three.
And a half months now since. Iknow started to use. Or Tex Ranier 1000 rangefinders. All for archery season. While gun season just started. And we’ll be using it through. That too, so I wanted to give it just an update of where my review of. It compared to what I was using before. Ireally like it’s durable. Some things I really like about. It is the belt clip is. It had comes with the lanyard. And a belt clip. It rights onto my safety harness it’s really good. That way this orange strap. You see on it does not come with. It that’s part of my safety harness. Iuse then some other things. Ilike about you have two options with. You press the button down the whole way that’s. One shot, so I take a look at a tree.
And then push and let go it’ll just give. One range 26 yards whatever. That tree is around but. And hold that button. Ican scan it’ll give. Me different yardages as. Iscan around and look through. That rangefinder I like to scan option it’s pretty nice. When you’re out in the woods. You just want to get a shots of a couple areas. Where you’re out from the tree stand it’s easy just for me to arrange. It the only complaint. Ido have with it is actually the illuminated readings. That come on if they come in red which is fine. This is the part that I’d really thought I’d like. Ido like it during the daytime but the problem. Ihave with when it’s dusk. And you’re trying to arrange. Something it does have. It’s too bright it does have three settings on. It a high medium and low setting I have. It the whole way down in the low setting but it’s still too bright so. Iclick in and the readings show up in red.
And it’s illuminated my eyes can’t see. Anything past that small it’s not a big deal but. Iwish the low setting could go. Even lower more adjust ability to go farther down to get around. Idid was I would get my reading because. You can still kind of see the crosshairs. You look through it without. Ijust kind of looked through. Iwant to range hit. Once it’ll give me a reading and. Iwait for it to turn off. That throughout so you can still get. One reading with pushing in. And letting go the button. You just can’t use the scan option at. That point you can’t see out through the woods but overall. Ido like this rangefinder a lot of giving me good accurate readings. Even double-checked with. Some other range finders. Iwould highly recommend.
Anybody especially you couple. That with the vortex warranty. You just can’t beat. It for the price and for the money so. You like this review of the range finder we’re going to continue to do. Some reviews all use different equipment here. And breathe outdoors. And we’re going to do reviews on. Each piece of equipment. We use just to give. You an idea of the things. And the things we found. That worked for us hunting in the woods here in Pennsylvania. And doing other things outdoors so. You liked this please like. And subscribe to this video. And subscribe to our Channel. And you’ll see more reviews come thanks
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