In the whitetail woods at standard treestands heights the "arc" rangefinders are not necessary and the commercial with Michael Widdel in a cherry picker is a joke.

The distance is never more than 2 yards and the farther the target the less it gets.

In an elk environment and bow distance, I still think they are irrelevant. Maybe in ballistics and mountain ranges only.



Now, when high in a tree and looking at a target on an extreme down hill scenario, yes they may have merit. On my whitetail hunt in IL I wish I would have had one. The distance difference in some of the things I ranged from the ground and then at the trees on the same level was 5 yards.