TassieTiger wrote:I acquired one of the eBay specials below for $110 - it will not range a klm as advertised but it is good to 700m and has 100% reviews from 18 purchased.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1000M-Teles ... SwolpcNAto
TassieTiger wrote:I acquired one of the eBay specials below for $110 - it will not range a klm as advertised but it is good to 700m and has 100% reviews from 18 purchased.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1000M-Teles ... SwolpcNAto
Member-Deleted wrote:Stix,
don't know about Kogan but i believe Aldi will have them on sale in the next few weeks (they were on sale about this time last year) - Maginon brand for @ $149. i recall one of the other blokes (was it OB?) got one.
TassieTiger wrote:The eBay one also measures speed - fantastic to work out, how fast a farkin lion is running at you !!!
TassieTiger wrote:The eBay one also measures speed - fantastic to work out, how fast a farkin lion is running at you !!!
ramshackle wrote:I would not buy the Kogan unit. It does not have the very useful "scan" mode where you can press a button and it scans and displays distance dynamically as you move it around. The eBay offerings routinely have this
xDom wrote:Do the cheapies work in the dark?
bladeracer wrote:ramshackle wrote:I would not buy the Kogan unit. It does not have the very useful "scan" mode where you can press a button and it scans and displays distance dynamically as you move it around. The eBay offerings routinely have this
I can't say that I've had any need for such a thing, I aim it at my target, press the button, read the distance.
ramshackle wrote:bladeracer wrote:ramshackle wrote:I would not buy the Kogan unit. It does not have the very useful "scan" mode where you can press a button and it scans and displays distance dynamically as you move it around. The eBay offerings routinely have this
I can't say that I've had any need for such a thing, I aim it at my target, press the button, read the distance.
You may be right, but: https://youtu.be/Ia6YEgR6TeY
bladeracer wrote:xDom wrote:Do the cheapies work in the dark?
As long as you can see the target, if you can't see the target then you can't aim at it. The reticle is black so you can't read it against a black background, but it holds the reading for about ten seconds or so to allow you to read it against your hand or the sky.
We've got a full moon just now and it's quite light at night, but I'll try to remember to try aiming it at known structures when it's pitch black and see if it works - I'm sure it will.
Stix wrote:That video...or the point the guy is trying to impress, makes no sense to me in the average deer hunting situation he is depicting...!!
Its just a suck-in for the guy who's never hunted, & is completely misleading giving a false impression of a hunting scenario...!!
Everything he says is self defeating...
He says constant "clicking" of the button may be heard by a deer, yet suggests if you see one closer to the side you can hold the button to avoid being heard & swing around 90 degrees to get a range on the close one...
It would be easy for him to range without the need for scanning mode cos id have shot the bloody thing by the time he's finished tugging his finder...
Fair dinkum...movement will bust you regardless of a click...!!...not to mention, once you've got a range on a deer youve got a range...you dont need to know its now 3 yds closer, then another one yard, then another 3 yds etc etc to send bloody bullet.....
Seriously, if its that important to have a continual range, at what point do you swap the finder for the rifle...
Load of sales bullsh1t...!!
The only time ive ever wished i had a range on a moving target is a silhouette of fast moving incoming overhead ducks sgainst the sky on a sunny day...but if they continue to fly after the first barrel i know immediately if ive over or undereastimated it...!!
Like i said...load of sales bullsh1t to convince the novice to spend extra..!!!
The feature is just there because the technology makes it relatively cheap & easy to add, & thus vastly improve profit...
Scanning Mode is another great feature that allows you to scan a variety of ranges. If you are hunting an area and want to know the approximate range that animals may enter your area, this feature is indispensable.
Activate your scan mode and pan the green. This is almost fool-proof. If you don’t get your distance by just panning the course, aim towards the back of the green, especially if there’s trees or bunkers present. Then move the reticle, still in scan mode, to the flagstick and you should be able to get that elusive distance.
ramshackle wrote:Yeah, maybe, but I'd rather have it than not:Scanning Mode is another great feature that allows you to scan a variety of ranges. If you are hunting an area and want to know the approximate range that animals may enter your area, this feature is indispensable.
https://rangefindertoday.com/best-range ... r-hunting/
The main reason I want scanning mode is, apart from the fact that it allows you to get quick distance on multiple targets, is that I read a hunting book —cannot find it now— where the (expert) hunter says that he absolutely must have it because it eliminates false readings that you can get from a one-reading unit. If you are getting multiple readings all around your quarry, as well as your quarry, you can be very confident of the reading, whereas a point and click reading may be registering off a point in front of (e.g. a tree branch) or behind the target. Also: if you are trying to range find very small prey at long distance it helps, because you can simply get adjacent ranges.
The same thing happens when you're trying to find the range to a golfing hole:Activate your scan mode and pan the green. This is almost fool-proof. If you don’t get your distance by just panning the course, aim towards the back of the green, especially if there’s trees or bunkers present. Then move the reticle, still in scan mode, to the flagstick and you should be able to get that elusive distance.
https://golftamers.com/guides/golf-rang ... sage-tips/
So golfers love it, which makes it easier to sell on Gumtree when you want to upgrade
Also if your quarry is moving, coming towards you for instance, you can hold the scan mode on it until it reaches the right range. That's much easier than taking multiple (potentially incorrect) readings off a moving target.
Also if you have multiple possible targets, in scan mode you can rapidly get all their ranges and quickly select the best one. This is huge.
So in conclusion, the Kogan unit lacks the scanning mode found on almost all other cheap rangefinders. The scanning mode is not something you want to be without, even though you could get by without it.
bladeracer wrote:That all sounds like theoretical goodness to me, what rangefinder do you currently use?
You take readings around your target regardless of whether you press the tit (it's not a switch and makes absolutely no sound at all) each time or just hold it down, you never take a single reading and just assume you were on the target.
ramshackle wrote:bladeracer wrote:That all sounds like theoretical goodness to me, what rangefinder do you currently use?
One with scanning mode.You take readings around your target regardless of whether you press the tit (it's not a switch and makes absolutely no sound at all) each time or just hold it down, you never take a single reading and just assume you were on the target.
Exactly, you never do, which is why scanning is easier and quicker than clickety-clicking.
Put it up for sale on Gumtree and get a better one, is what I would do.
marksman wrote:the scan mode is pretty useful but some rangefinders only scan one way, the rangefinder needs to scan back and forth so when you are looking say at a spread out mob of deer a deer can be at 250 and another that does not look that much further away is at 350 because that deer is not straight out from you but on an angle
I have had a condor golf rangefinder for years that scans both in and outwards that cost me around $125 at the time when most guys were buying $800 plus hunting rangefinders that did not scan at all, it makes it easy to range a complete paddock before the deer arrive out of the bush to give you an estimate of what distance to zero at I roughly know the size of the paddocks but angles still get me sometimes, this cheap golf rangefinder I've had for so long will range out to over 1000Yds and if I dropped it of a cliff who would care, they can be a useful tool to have