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<blockquote data-quote="DocB" data-source="post: 1133217" data-attributes="member: 55312"><p>Originally Posted by cummins cowboy</p><p><em>"do yourself a favor and get a decent RF, vortex and leupold are only going to be reliable to about 400 yards past that its probably going to take several tries to get a range. I personally would recommend a set of used geovids. havne't looked lately but I have seen them for as cheap as 1200 in the past. once you have used RF binoculars you will not go back."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>+1. </p><p></p><p>I recently purchased the Bushnell Elite 1 Mile ARC and couldn't be happier. Performance and ranging have been spot on out to 1500 meters which is about the limit of my ability reliably but I'll be shooting 1609 meters soon. The ARC functions perfectly and saves me money on the ACI I was planning on buying. I shoot Hornady 208gr AMaxs, 215gr Bergers, Black Hills with 210gr Berger VLDs and Sierra 220gr SMKs and can program the 1 Mile ARC with the ballistic info from the Bushnell website. I use this as a reference but use AB Mobile on my Droid and Kestrel to do my final firing solutions. I was at a small SF base in AFG recently and this is the LRF that they were using along with the Vectronix. I figured that I couldn't do better than that, especially for the price, and the price was good! I used my retired military bennies and bought it thru AAFES. Couldn't beat that!</p><p></p><p>DocB</p><p></p><p><em>Animo et Fide "Courage and Faith"</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DocB, post: 1133217, member: 55312"] Originally Posted by cummins cowboy [I]"do yourself a favor and get a decent RF, vortex and leupold are only going to be reliable to about 400 yards past that its probably going to take several tries to get a range. I personally would recommend a set of used geovids. havne't looked lately but I have seen them for as cheap as 1200 in the past. once you have used RF binoculars you will not go back."[/I] +1. I recently purchased the Bushnell Elite 1 Mile ARC and couldn't be happier. Performance and ranging have been spot on out to 1500 meters which is about the limit of my ability reliably but I'll be shooting 1609 meters soon. The ARC functions perfectly and saves me money on the ACI I was planning on buying. I shoot Hornady 208gr AMaxs, 215gr Bergers, Black Hills with 210gr Berger VLDs and Sierra 220gr SMKs and can program the 1 Mile ARC with the ballistic info from the Bushnell website. I use this as a reference but use AB Mobile on my Droid and Kestrel to do my final firing solutions. I was at a small SF base in AFG recently and this is the LRF that they were using along with the Vectronix. I figured that I couldn't do better than that, especially for the price, and the price was good! I used my retired military bennies and bought it thru AAFES. Couldn't beat that! DocB [I]Animo et Fide "Courage and Faith"[/I] [/QUOTE]
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