While I do use telescopic sights (2.5x - 7x Leupold)I have never used a rangefinder and I never will.
I was taught to hunt by my father and I have decent skill at estimating the range to deer or elk sized animals.
He also taught me, and experience has borne this out, 9 out of every 10 hunts is unsuccessful.
I am a hunter, not a digital age guy who needs technology.
Using that junk is not hunting.
But it is a free country, for now, and you can do what you want.
However, I would ask a favor of you, let me know where you’re hunting. I would hate to get shot cresting a small rise because I am between you and that animal 1000 yards away.
Have a Blessed Day! FRiend.
so a real hunter would shoot a front leg off an elk by estimating range, rather than use a rangefinder?