Has anyone used this rangefinder?
05-19-2014, 04:40 PM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Vermont
Posts: 486
Take the advise from someone who has bought a range finder from Wildgames Innovations, GO ELSEWHERE !!! Mine doesn't work half the time and I've also had trail cameras from the same company that are absolute junk. Spend the little extra and get something that will work and last longer.
11-14-2017, 08:57 PM
#23
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 3
hello everyone!! I'm new on huntingnet forum. my Hobby is hunting. in last month I went to montana for hunting ELK with my new vortex ranger 1000. It was awesome.
I think this is the best one in cheap rate. But if it’s not, than it would be very kind that you suggest me the best…
I think this is the best one in cheap rate. But if it’s not, than it would be very kind that you suggest me the best…
Last edited by marcofran1989; 11-14-2017 at 11:11 PM.
11-17-2017, 02:38 PM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,903
hello everyone!! I'm new on huntingnet forum. my Hobby is hunting. in last month I went to montana for hunting ELK with my new vortex ranger 1000. It was awesome.
I think this is the best one in cheap rate. But if it’s not, than it would be very kind that you suggest me the best…
I think this is the best one in cheap rate. But if it’s not, than it would be very kind that you suggest me the best…
12-07-2017, 02:00 AM
#25
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 3
I'm thinking of using just like one of our normal IR or ultrasonic rangefinders but at a longer distance. The rangefinder would be mounted on a servo on the front of my robot.
My current setup has a small ultrasonic rangefinder on a servo that pans the 180 degrees in front of the robot and records the distance at each degree. Then servo continues to search by panning back and forth across those 180 degrees and comparing the distance at each degree. If the current distance doesn't match the recorded distance then the robot knows that someone or something has approached, and will react accordingly by destroying it with a death ray (okay, so maybe its just a laser pointer
My current setup has a small ultrasonic rangefinder on a servo that pans the 180 degrees in front of the robot and records the distance at each degree. Then servo continues to search by panning back and forth across those 180 degrees and comparing the distance at each degree. If the current distance doesn't match the recorded distance then the robot knows that someone or something has approached, and will react accordingly by destroying it with a death ray (okay, so maybe its just a laser pointer
12-08-2017, 12:32 PM
#26
Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma
Posts: 1,350
The Ranger $1000 tends to run $380. The Sig Kilo 2000 and 2200LRF can be found for the same price, and the Sig's are faster with a tighter beam divergence, and more than twice the range. There have also been sales this year on Bushnell Elite 1 Mile which also ranges more than twice as far as the Vortex, and some sale prices were under $300. Not hard to beat the Vortex ranger.
Do the Sigs have a min on the yardage they will display? I'm a cheap son of a gun and would like it for longer shots and for use during archery season.
12-10-2017, 07:22 AM
#27
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 10
I was looking at the Sportman's Guide catalog.They have a Wildgame Innovations Halo 600 yard laser rangefinder.It's water and fogproof and has a scan mode for multiple targets.Clear LCD readout and 6x magnification.It sells for $99.97.
I need a rangefinder for bow hunting mostly.I have an older bow that is very accurate but it's not a fast bow.When the deer are out to 30 to 40 yds I start to have trouble guessing the correct range.I hunt quite a few different area's.Clear cut to heavy brush,flat land to very hilly.
If this rangefinder could do that for me,I would be happy.I don't have alot of money and it would save me 100 dollars.Thanks for any opinions.
Would I be twice as happy spending twice as much,buying a Nikon Prostaff 550?
I need a rangefinder for bow hunting mostly.I have an older bow that is very accurate but it's not a fast bow.When the deer are out to 30 to 40 yds I start to have trouble guessing the correct range.I hunt quite a few different area's.Clear cut to heavy brush,flat land to very hilly.
If this rangefinder could do that for me,I would be happy.I don't have alot of money and it would save me 100 dollars.Thanks for any opinions.
Would I be twice as happy spending twice as much,buying a Nikon Prostaff 550?
02-14-2018, 11:45 PM
#28
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 15
The Ranger $1000 tends to run $380. The Sig Kilo 2000 and 2200LRF can be found for the same price, and the Sig's are faster with a tighter beam divergence and more than twice the range. There have also been sales this year on Bushnell Elite 1 Mile which also ranges more than twice as far as the Vortex, and some sale prices were under $300. Not hard to beat the Vortex ranger.
Last edited by robertaboone100; 02-28-2018 at 06:58 PM.
