Rangefinding Binoculars Field Review By Michael Deming and Staff
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wenty-five years ago, I purchased my first rangefinder. It looked a lot like a Kodak 110 camera which only a few of you reading this will understand what I’m talking about. The concept of turning a dial to make the images come into alignment which provided you a yardage sounds a bit archaic and I wouldn’t even consider it very accurate. It could have also been that my archery equipment was barely breaking the 200 feet per second barrier at the time or maybe it just wasn’t a very refined system. Regardless, you had to practice a bunch and lots of animals got away because the distance to the target was more guess than science.
Fast forward twenty-five years and the rangefinders will generate measurements in yards or meters, adjust for uphill and downhill calculations, gives you wind holds, store all ballistic data, and takes the guess work out of just about any shot you want to take. To say that they have revolutionized the shooting sports would definitely be an understatement. Putting these ranging devices into a set of binoculars is even better. Being able to have at least a ten-power rangefinder and having the ability to hold it with both hands gives you a very stable platform. This isn’t a new thing as companies have been doing this for a while, but the technology is definitely getting better. It has also gotten more affordable and we here at Sportsman’s News have had most available models in hand and field testing them for the past few months. We wanted to provide real world experience on how far they actually range versus what they have advertised
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