I have the leupy 1000i tbr and like it. If you'll ever have a rifle in your hand I would go with the new Leica 1000r. Line of sight to 1000 angle comp (cosine) to 600.
Ok, but how CLOSE will the new Leica work, with angle comp? A lot of the high ends won't work inside of 30 yds. Not good for the Bowhunter.
10 yards
i have the vortex. bought it used off of AT for $200. a steal.Well I'll be darned. You are right. I had looked at the Leica 1000 before, but was not aware of the 1000r. I'm intrigued, but what does it do over the Vortex? Is it faster? Of course there is the Leica quality factor. This is silly, but I really do like that clip on the Vortex. Decisions, decisions...
I was going to start looking at getting either the Vortex or Leupold rangefinder (probably end up with the Vortex through Paul/Elknut).
But can anyone tell me how these two do with managing fog and close up branches/brush, when you are trying to range something beyond 20-30 yds?
Infact, I would love to have an available mode that only ranges things beyond 20-25 yds...anything closer than this is on my first archery site pin anyway and so I don't care exactly how far away it is.
In the past, after my prior Bushnell bit the dust the first time it got wet, I picked up an elcheapo non-angle compensating rangefinder, and with it if there are any nearby twigs within 10 yards or if it is foggy at all, it just will read a range of 6 yds...very annoying and useless in these situations!
I don't like hearing all the multiple click reports from the Vortex. Are they all that way?