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Skychief said:
Whoa. Wait a minute, Boilermaker!

Aren't you supposed to be saving your nickels for a smoothbore???

C'mon now, "Boiler Up"!!!!!

Best regards, Skychief

I get distracted easily... :idunno:
 
I wouldnt trust it. I had a similar site system on a bow once. The lines were to be used by putting the deers upper and lower body lines in the site window which "ranged" the distance "properly". Shot over n under many nice little bucks but never hit one :hmm: I finally decided they used a different bred of deer to design the site and AZ deer where skinnier or fatter than the model :idunno:
 
Stumpkiller said:
Sight in for 100 yards and you're gold from muzzle to 125 yards with a center hold. ;-)

This is my general approach but the arc becomes pretty severe after that 125y mark. Just looking for a potential tool to help differentiate 125 from 150+ yards for elk especially. Most of my hunting has been for whitetails and their smaller size relative to elk makes me just a bit cautious about misjudging the distance on elk.
 
So the problem I see is elk vary a great deal in size. One bull can be 300 pounds bigger than the next.

This device would have to assume the elk was of average size.

Look at the size of this cow (shot by the blind man in orange by the way)



That is no trick of the camera, Bill cut it up for him and said he got 80 pounds MORE meat off this cow then his own. 80 pounds!!

If you looked at her at 150 yards that thing would tell you an average elk was 100 yards away.


Work out how many normal steps (not marching off, but just walking) you take to go 100 yards. Go to the football field, walk it out a few times. once you know. go scouting where you will hunt and pick something you think is 100 yards away. Then count your steps to it. your mind will pick up what is and what isn't (in my case) 120 paces away. soon you will find that you know when you are 100 yards from a bush, rock, or tree. And that big set of antlers has a harder time lying to you that it is in range when it is not. :wink:
 
Sean Gadhar said:
So the problem I see is elk vary a great deal in size.

Yep. My wifes first black powder cow was standing by the herd bull and the cow was notably and mean NOTABLY a bigger animal. The bull was a 7x7 too btw. Thats the one we got 333lbs of BONELESS meat out of. :grin: A meat hunters dream cow :)
 
Rifleman1776 said:
You guys with your simple, sensible answers just take fun out of everything. :wink:
What Stumpkiller said. Simple and sensible, that's the way it should be, and actually is, but not one guy in a hundred uses that to their advantage. Instead, they insist on doing it the most complicated way possible. I've always been very puzzled as to why that is the case, so I'm glad to hear you admit simple and easy bugs you, and that you find the infinite complexity of the usual way it's done to be "fun". :haha: :haha:

Spence
 
Rangefinders like GPS often give people the advantage of knowledge they have not learned....This means when they make a mistake, they make big ones....and don't know how to correct them.

You could easily learn how to make your own primitive rangefinder....For years I used a map and scale.....Quite accurate.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone. I've harvested 2-3 whitetails every year for more years than I can remember off hand with my 54 and have never needed anything like this. Just ran across it while browsing on Track and was intrigued. :)
 
Sean Gadhar said:
So the problem I see is elk vary a great deal in size. One bull can be 300 pounds bigger than the next.

This device would have to assume the elk was of average size.

Look at the size of this cow (shot by the blind man in orange by the way)



That is no trick of the camera, Bill cut it up for him and said he got 80 pounds MORE meat off this cow then his own. 80 pounds!!

If you looked at her at 150 yards that thing would tell you an average elk was 100 yards away.


Work out how many normal steps (not marching off, but just walking) you take to go 100 yards. Go to the football field, walk it out a few times. once you know. go scouting where you will hunt and pick something you think is 100 yards away. Then count your steps to it. your mind will pick up what is and what isn't (in my case) 120 paces away. soon you will find that you know when you are 100 yards from a bush, rock, or tree. And that big set of antlers has a harder time lying to you that it is in range when it is not. :wink:

That is one big cow!!
And good idea/advice on ranging.
 
dsayer said:
That is one big cow!!
And good idea/advice on ranging.

When Tim (the legally blind man) got the cow tag I was already obligated to be doing something else, so I was not there to see him take it. :(

They sent this to my phone and I almost fell over. I thought sure it was an antlerless bull. That head is gigantic for a cow. I was sure it would turn out it was a bull who had somehow damaged his "equipment". Nope just a heck of a big middle aged cow elk.
 
George said:
Rifleman1776 said:
You guys with your simple, sensible answers just take fun out of everything. :wink:
What Stumpkiller said. Simple and sensible, that's the way it should be, and actually is, but not one guy in a hundred uses that to their advantage. Instead, they insist on doing it the most complicated way possible. I've always been very puzzled as to why that is the case, so I'm glad to hear you admit simple and easy bugs you, and that you find the infinite complexity of the usual way it's done to be "fun". :haha: :haha:

Spence

My comment was a joke.
I admire simple, sensible approaches to issues.
 
That's my thinking. Make your own adjust it to your own methodology.

For example, elk and deer can vary considerably in size but their ears are pretty uniform. It could gauge off the ears.

But, when it's said and done, at our typical RB ranges judging by eyeball is pretty easy to do or to learn.
 
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