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<blockquote data-quote="Konrad" data-source="post: 713398" data-attributes="member: 26549"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I was one of those who were waiting for angle compensation in a laser range finder that would work for both bow and rifle and that would accurately work out to 1000 yards.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">About eight months after Bushnell came out with the Legend 1200 with ARC; I sold one of my unused handguns, got a small pile of shekels in hand and sauntered into the local sporting goods store to check out all of the competition. I made the sales clerk round up the top three units and we went outside to test them. I find fluorescent lighting does not give an accurate representation of what I will see in the real world, hence the trip outdoors. The fellow wasn't too happy at the prospect but then had he not cooperated, I would have walked.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">At any rate, I choose the Bushnell Legend for a couple of personal reasons related to unit design specifics. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">While I was very impressed with the unit over-all, I was very disappointed with the lanyard supplied. It had a tiny synthetic loop passing around a small stainless steel pin mounted on the unit and a wimpy (please forgive my technical terminology) plastic fastener completing the loop that goes around your neck. I don't know about you but my shekels come dearly and I could easily envision my tidy investment pulling loose and careening down a gully, bouncing off of sundry rocks and then landing squarely in a swiftly flowing creek.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I normally wear the range finder in its nice padded case attached to my target quiver belt when practicing in my back yard. Silly me, I thought that was being careful! One day I was walking up the trail to my target to retrieve arrows and unbeknownst to me the lanyard had fallen from the case and was dangling loosely as I went. Of course, the loop caught on a stray bush and promptly yanked the neck loop out of the cheesey plastic fastener.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I contacted the factory, asking for guidance and their suggestion was to purchase another lanyard just like the one I had just broken. I was not very happy at that prospect. Then I started looking around for other options. Never happy enough to invest more coin, it took almost six months to stumble (literally) onto the perfect solution. I was surfing the web-site Optics Planet for another project and typed "tether" into the site search box as an afterthought.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Lo and behold! Bushnell Golf makes a retractable tether for their "golf" laser range finders! It is called the 360R. Apparently, Bushnell Hunting does not know Bushnell Golf sells a heavy duty retractor and for about $20! It has a heavy duty belt clip, a 42 inch steel cable and (here is the best part) a heavy duty ring with ¼-20 stud to screw into the steel fitting embedded into the body of the range finder.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">My search for a suitable method for preventing damage to my range finder due to the inherent clumsiness honestly inherited from my father has ended and the solution was a Bushnell one after all.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Who would have guessed?</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Konrad, post: 713398, member: 26549"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I was one of those who were waiting for angle compensation in a laser range finder that would work for both bow and rifle and that would accurately work out to 1000 yards.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]About eight months after Bushnell came out with the Legend 1200 with ARC; I sold one of my unused handguns, got a small pile of shekels in hand and sauntered into the local sporting goods store to check out all of the competition. I made the sales clerk round up the top three units and we went outside to test them. I find fluorescent lighting does not give an accurate representation of what I will see in the real world, hence the trip outdoors. The fellow wasn’t too happy at the prospect but then had he not cooperated, I would have walked.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]At any rate, I choose the Bushnell Legend for a couple of personal reasons related to unit design specifics. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]While I was very impressed with the unit over-all, I was very disappointed with the lanyard supplied. It had a tiny synthetic loop passing around a small stainless steel pin mounted on the unit and a wimpy (please forgive my technical terminology) plastic fastener completing the loop that goes around your neck. I don’t know about you but my shekels come dearly and I could easily envision my tidy investment pulling loose and careening down a gully, bouncing off of sundry rocks and then landing squarely in a swiftly flowing creek.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I normally wear the range finder in its nice padded case attached to my target quiver belt when practicing in my back yard. Silly me, I thought that was being careful! One day I was walking up the trail to my target to retrieve arrows and unbeknownst to me the lanyard had fallen from the case and was dangling loosely as I went. Of course, the loop caught on a stray bush and promptly yanked the neck loop out of the cheesey plastic fastener.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I contacted the factory, asking for guidance and their suggestion was to purchase another lanyard just like the one I had just broken. I was not very happy at that prospect. Then I started looking around for other options. Never happy enough to invest more coin, it took almost six months to stumble (literally) onto the perfect solution. I was surfing the web-site Optics Planet for another project and typed “tether” into the site search box as an afterthought.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Lo and behold! Bushnell Golf makes a retractable tether for their “golf” laser range finders! It is called the 360R. Apparently, Bushnell Hunting does not know Bushnell Golf sells a heavy duty retractor and for about $20! It has a heavy duty belt clip, a 42 inch steel cable and (here is the best part) a heavy duty ring with ¼-20 stud to screw into the steel fitting embedded into the body of the range finder.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]My search for a suitable method for preventing damage to my range finder due to the inherent clumsiness honestly inherited from my father has ended and the solution was a Bushnell one after all.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Who would have guessed?[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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