Use of rangefinders?

[deleted BGS]

I said it before take away all the electronics and leave our seasons alone.  Never used them in the 18 years I have hunted don't see a need to use them anytime soon.  Practice and you dont need something to tell you where to aim.  

  If you need a range finder to use a bow then you aren't practicing enough

  Maybe put down the crutch and walk on your own 2 feet
  

I dont care how many hundred arrows you shoot at a target, once you get into the field or any unfamiliar area good luck. 52 or 60 thats a huge difference. Miss low to over the back. You might guess lucky once, but not many more times, especially at 37 53 46 etc.. You can be close but not precise.

[throttlejocky20]

I said it before take away all the electronics and leave our seasons alone.  Never used them in the 18 years I have hunted don't see a need to use them anytime soon.  Practice and you dont need something to tell you where to aim.  

  If you need a range finder to use a bow then you aren't practicing enough

  Maybe put down the crutch and walk on your own 2 feet
  

I dont care how many hundred arrows you shoot at a target, once you get into the field or any unfamiliar area good luck. 52 or 60 thats a huge difference. Miss low to over the back. You might guess lucky once, but not many more times, especially at 37 53 46 etc.. You can be close but not precise.

:yeah:To say using a rangefinder is like having a crutch is the stupidist thing I have ever heard. There is so many varibles in bow hunting and this gives the chance to make one go away. You still have to make the shot, there is still wind, all the same branches are still there, animals dont always stay still, and you cant through out adrenilin. So if useing a tool that tells me the exact yardage is haveing a crutch then right on. I would like to see some of these people guess yardage within a couple yards every time. Chances are they are off more than there on.

[TeacherMan]

I love my rangefinder! I have 4!!! One in both vehicles, my hunting pack and an extra for any one with me  Last two elk I have killed have been at 56 and 62 yards. One arrow each, both recovered in less than 100yds. Last one I shot at 200 yds with my 300 ran more than 100yds. The last deer I got with my bow was 67yds, one shot, recovered down hill within 200 yds, 6x7, 28" mule deer. Have I said how much I love my range finder! A bow is a powerful tool. I practice all season out to 80 yards with a 5 point target so I don't split arrows. Before I had a rangefinder I use to only have pins to 40. With that being said I pull my bow every day and shoot at least 50 shots a week, close to 1000 a week during the summer. I love being a teacher in that aspect.

[bwhntr350]

I bowhunted from 1981_1991, and then from 2005-present. Taken 10 bull elk. Longest kill is 35 yards. I feel that the new technology helps me make a better shot at 35 or 40 yards, which is my limit to shoot at an animal. I set that in like 1985 and have never wavered.

  I do, as many, practice out to 80 yards. My arrow groups go about 1" to 1 1/2" for every ten yards. So, 20 yards=2"-3" . . . 40 yards=4"-6" . . .70 yards = 7"-10" etc.

 I had a bull jump my string in 1985 and I will never forget that feeling, as I wounded it and never found it. I will do anything, stopping short of quitting hunting, to never feel that again. I owe it to my quarry.

 As self-righteous as this all sounds, in my opinion, there are just way too many variables that can happen over an extended distance. In my belief, if I try a shot at a longer distance than my set limit, then I am being selfish. I have the will power to not shoot and try to get closer, after all, to me,  that is what bow hunting is all about.

 I don't use the technology (faster,flatter shooting bows, range finders, etc.) to "improve" my chances at long distances, I use it to, practically, "insure" a kill at 40 yards.

 To each his own, though. I do not judge others because they do differently than I. This is my game plan and it has worked out quite well, for me.

[bowkid]

They are great, makes it so you will have a better chance of not wounding, but getting a good quick kill shot.  That is as long as you have practiced and are not shooting beyond your ability.