RE: Simple way to range yrds?
Learn to judge 20 yards and then get that close before you shoot. Half the distance, half the judgement error, half the allowance for wind/uphill/downhill. At least 200% better chance of making a clean, one shot kill.
That's the way I do it. When I'm hunting, I'm too lazy to carry a pocket calculator with trigonometry and trajectory formulas programmed into it.[8D]