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Saw it in a magazine recently and was curious

I just step it of from my stand and different locations and put a piece of tape up or stick or cornstalk just what ever and i sight my bow in the same way by steppin it off

Try this. Its not the greatest but it works if your in a pinch and it free

http://www.chuckhawks.com/rangefinding_wild.htm

I can see how this would work, but I think I'd need an abacus to figure it out, that and I'm pretty sure my toes would get cold while I was trying to count that high!

Ive hunted for years without one, always marked trees or what not to indicate my distances. I did buy one though for this year, everyone tells me after hunting with one you will wonder how you ever got along with out it. Good luck!!

madjac, yes, that's it......I must admit, it's intriquing.....Looks like it would work.

Practice estimating yardages. You will be surprised at how close you can get. Most shots I have are within twenty yards anyhow...

I pace off everything mark it with certain trees in the area. If I have to I will mark them with a small piece of orange tape.

So I did some calculating with this guy's formula and I surprised myself how well I can figure things out with it using a few assumptions... I know what they say about assumptions, but regardless.


Basically, to start this math assignment, you have to measure your thumb and the distance between your eye and your thumb with your arm extended in front of you. His thumb was .625 inches wide (5/8") and his eye-thumb length was 24.25 for a ratio (thumbwidth/eye-thumb length) of 40. I got a thumb width of .75 (3/4") and an arm length of 24" for a ratio of 32.

The next part of his equation requires you to know the height of whatever you are distance-guesstimating. In our case it's a deer, which average around 36" or so high at the shoulder depending on what part of the country you live in. 36"=3 feet= 1 yard which is very convenient for this situation.

Basically using his arm-thumb ratio and my own, which I would consider a fairly well-encompassing spread, here are some values.

If you hold your thumb out full arm's length parallel to the ground, measure/guesstimate the deer's height in thumb widths.

1/4 thumbwidth= 96-120 yards away
1/2 thumbwidth= 64-80 yards away
1 thumbwidth= 32-40 yards away
1 1/2 thumbwidths= 21-26 yards away
2 thumbwidths= 16-20 yards away


Obviously the ranges get a bid broad as you get up, but for the ranges most of the people on this board will be shooting at (<40 yards) it's a pretty damn good way of estimating once you get past the initial arithmetic!




If you have wide thumbs and/or short arms, hedge towards the shorter end of the range, if you have narrow thumbs and long arms hedge towards the farther edge, or just do the math yourself!



I'm just happy to know that for me, 2 thumbwidths=16 yards, 1.5=21 yards, 1=32 yards, 1/2=64 yards, and 1/4=96 yards.

If you have binoculars, you can fix the focus for different yardages. Take your archery target out to 20 and focus the binoculars until the image is perfect. Mark the focus dial. Repeat the proces out to 30 and 40 using different markings or colors for different ranges. Then you can just focus with your binoculars and look at your focus control for range. Not exactly precise, but not expensive either. I hope I explained that where it is understandable.