The Best Rangefinders for Hunting

The best rangefinder for hunting sort of depends on how you’ll use it. The best rangefinding binocular — capable of ranging 6 miles and giving you aiming solutions for any bullet and load — might be overkill for a bowhunter looking for fast, precise ranges inside 50 yards.Get more news about Yard rangefinder Hunting,you can vist our website!

Regardless of utility, the state of the rangefinding arts is in ascension. Lasers are faster and more precise than ever, and the optics that deliver images and ranging displays are integrating with processors and mobile apps to provide extremely powerful and useful interfaces. About those optics: glass and coatings have kept pace, so that even handheld rangefinders for hunting are clearer and brighter than ever. And rangefinding binoculars are capable stand-alone binoculars, even without powering up their prodigious electronics.

Many laser rangefinding binoculars lead with their software or their ability to compute range-informed aiming solutions. The Zeiss Victory RF is first and foremost a world-class optic—a clear choice for the best rangefinder for long-range shooting. The rangefinder is marvelous, but this unit defines the axiom that you have to see a target in order to engage it. Integration with a very good mobile app is a critical bonus.

The Victory line represents the best of German optical traditions. The glass is bright and sharp, and the oversized focus wheel turns as though it’s powered by ball bearings. The optic’s balance is perfect, and makes the 2-pound binocular seem much lighter.

Zeiss’s rangefinder is fairly standard in terms of its modes and horsepower. It features accuracy to +/- 1 yard inside 600 yards, and emits a laser wavelength of 905 nanometers. The circular reticle is precise and easy to use to range targets in just about any light conditions or distances. We should note that Zeiss advertises ranging capability to 2,500 yards; I ranged a reflective steel roof of a neighbor’s barn at 2,700 yards, but for deer-sized targets the effective range is more like 1,200 yards.

The optical coatings are among the best in the business, and the very crisp — and expensive — fluorite lenses render beautifully resolute and defined images. We should note that if you compare the image in the Victory RF to that delivered by a non-ranging Zeiss binocular, you’d probably find the rangefinder image slightly darker. That’s because the coatings used to enhance the red LED display tend to mute brightness just a fraction of a stop.
While most hand-held laser rangefinders are configured mainly for hunters, the Leica 2800.COM is purpose-built primarily for long-distance precision rifle shooters. It’s the first Leica with integrated Bluetooth connectivity, precisely to communicate with Kestrel and similar weather stations to make hyper-informed shooting solutions. The display presents either linear or incline-adjusted ranges along with either the amount of holdover or the number of clicks to be delivered to the riflescope in order to make consistent first-shot hits.
The ultimate hand-held monocular rangefinder for serious shooters, the Leica 2800.COM is on the leading edge of combining in-unit ranging with ballistics information provided through a Bluetooth connection. That ability to fetch custom load dynamics allows this unit to deliver informed shooting solutions no matter the distance, conditions, or trajectory of the bullet.

It’s a fitting part of Leica’s evolution in laser rangefinding. The German company was one of the first to combine premium optics with a laser rangefinder in its original rangefinding binocular, the exceptional Geovid. Leica has brought much of the same optical excellence to this 7x unit, which features nice glass and good coatings. Most shooters aren’t concerned with the image delivered by their rangefinder as much as they care about the ballistics software, but Leica has ensured that even long-range targets are visible and crisp.

The display features fairly standard modes, including linear distance and angle-adjusted range. Its 4-digit red LED display is crisp and easy to read in all light conditions. But shooters will love the choice of three aiming solutions: true range, holdover, and click values (which can be configured in MOA or mil values). Onboard ballistic curves are used to determine values based on caliber, bullet type, trajectory, velocity, and bullet weight.

But it’s the ability to link to Leica’s Hunting app, where shooters can store custom load information and a dizzying number of calibers and loads, that makes the 2800.COM a remarkable tool in the field. Also connecting wirelessly to Kestrel weather stations, the hunting rangefinder can incorporate wind, temperature, air pressure, and angle to inform even the longest shots. It’s a handy and extremely powerful device that’s small enough to fit in your shirt pocket.