Thanks for your help!

JeremyV

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Hey this is Jeremy VanSchoonhoven,
I came here a while back and asked for some votes for a photo contest I am in on riflescopes.com The photo contest is for best picture and story. I submited a story about a 6 point elk I shot at 570 yards. If any of you have some extra time please check out the picture and story and if you think its good vote for me.

I know a lot of you have already voted for me and I wanted to thank you because of your help I am in 5th place and
I just found out that two of the people in front of me are cheating so I will be moved up into 3rd place! my goal is to get secound plaec because I will win a Zeiss Conquest 4-14 rifle scope.
there are only two more days till the voting is over so if you have a few secounds to spare please give me a vote!

here is the link to vote! http://www.swfa.com/contestentries.aspx?contest=9

Thanks for your help!
Jeremy VanSchoonhoven
 
no I did not post over there in fact I have never been to that forum before. I took a look today and found some interesting stuff so thanks for giving me the heads up on that forum.

I just wanted to let everyone know that the voting is over and I ended up in 4th place!
Thanks to all your votes I won a burris scope however I have a better scope so they let me trade it for the Bushnell 1500 rangefinder with ARC angel compensation.

The rangefinder is going to make long range hunting a lot easyer. Right now I have just been doing it old school and using my mildots but much past 600 yards it gets kind of tricky at least for me. I know some guys can be fairly accurate out to 900-1,000 yards but I cant do that at least not yet.


Anyway thanks for all the help and support!
Jeremy VanSchoonhoven
 
If you've been ranging with mildots, the Bushie LRF will be a most welcome treat.

If mine died I'd have some sort of new LRF enroute within the day.

Congradulations.
 
Yea I am sure the range finder is going to be really nice! Using the mildots works but it takes more time, plus its hard to make a range card because I cant seem to find many known size objects in the woods, The only known size objects are the animals.

I found out now that SWFA will only give me $300 trade in for the scope I won, so if I want the rangefinder I need to pay $100 more so I am just going to get the scope and sell it on ebay and then buy a rangfinder. If any of you are interested in buying the scope its a Burris 3-12x44 Signature Select Rifle Scope.

Oh one last thing because I am selling the scope now I can get whatever rangefinder I want so I wanted to get your advice on what one to get.
I need it to range out to 1,000 yards in the real world not just say it does on the box.

I looked at the lica but it does not have a blistic mode or compinsates for angel shots like the bushnell 1500 ARC does. I know people are saying that the Leupold ones dont range too far but I dont have any expereice with any of them.


Thanks
Jeremy VanSchoonhoven
 
I have the Bushnell 1500, and it has worked well, but were I to buy anew, I think I would go with the Leica 1200. My Bushnell gets iffy in the field out past 600. It will definately range to 1k, but not everytime, and never quickly. I don't personally place much value in the angle feature Bushnell offers, have heard it isn't set up ideally (mine isn't the angle model).

Check out 6mmbr.com, they have a rangefinder feature on their homepage right now.
 
Jeremy
From reading the reviews, most on this board, it looks like the Newcon 2000 gives the most bang for the buck. If I find someone to buy my Bushnell 1500 Elite it will be replaced with a Newcon 2000.

James
 
Thanks guys!
Where can I find the reviews of the Newcon 2000?
I did a google search but came up with nothing.

I have been looking at the Newcon site and it looks like an awsome rangeifnder but I would like to talk to someone who has used one before speind the $$$ even if I can only get 1,000 yards out of it I would be happy! The price is really good as well!

Thanks for your help!

Jeremy VanSchoonhoven
 
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