I just switched to a Cobra penedulum from a Copper John just for the season. I am a terrible judge of distance, so I figuered why not. So far in practicing fron the tree stand it works great. On my bow it goes from under the tree out to 35 yards. Just put it on and figure out what your bows good for distance wise. If your going to do all you hunting from a stand I would most definatly get one