Weapon Mounted Laser Range Finder...for hunting?

[KMC55]

It probably wouldn't pass the drop test so I'd pass on it.

From my experience in the military WMLRFs are very very durable. If you trust your scope to hold zero and the rings to hold onto your rifle, then I'm not sure how you could expect the RF to not hold on.

 

[KMC55]

Hate hate hate people using a rifle for observation/ranging or anything other than shooting.

These things do not belong in the woods.

I severely dislike having rifles pointed at me.

Do you often range other people? Not sure why you would need to do that? But, I totally hear ya on having a rifle pointed at you, using the rifle scope for observation is absolutely unnecessary.

 

[alexnelon]

Do you often range other people? Not sure why you would need to do that? But, I totally hear ya on having a rifle pointed at you, using the rifle scope for observation is absolutely unnecessary.

I pretty much always range anything that moves. There's no reason not to because bullets don't come out of my binos.

 

[fuzzymarindave]

Hate hate hate people using a rifle for observation/ranging or anything other than shooting.

These things do not belong in the woods.

I severely dislike having rifles pointed at me.

Back in the day, I gave up rifle hunting for a few years because of people pointing their rifle at me to get a good look through scope. No binoculars I guess. Really disappointed.

I’m not sure that this device would add to that problem, though I could imagine some backlash from the non hunting community.

 

[lefthandedasian]

From my experience in the military WMLRFs are very very durable. If you trust your scope to hold zero and the rings to hold onto your rifle, then I'm not sure how you could expect the RF to not hold on.

I'm mostly just poking fun. I'm sure they can handle some abuse. Would be interesting to see how a WMLRF would fare tough in a drop test.

Even if a WMLRF was durable enough to shrug off some drops, how would the scope tube or scope cap handle the extra stress? The majority of the ones I just quickly googled look like they are mounted to a pic rail that's mounted to the scope body or pic scope cap? Just seems that if dropped just right the extra leverage from the device being mounted so high and far out from the rifles center mass it could potentially bend the scope tube or cap that it's mounted to.

I'm no engineer, but the longer you make a lever, the less force is needed to move it right?

 

[Pilsner]

The diving board mounts are generally part of the ring assembly and not mounted directly on the optic its self.

 

[Hawkeye29]

Opinions aside, has anyone got an answer from CPW on WMLRF’s?

 

[JMundy84]

Definitely not legal in Idaho

 

[Speaks]

Hate hate hate people using a rifle for observation/ranging or anything other than shooting.

These things do not belong in the woods.

I severely dislike having rifles pointed at me.

I see this all the time here. I wear orange bow hunting now. Have seen coyote hunters checking me out in their scope multiple times.

 

[bbckfh]

I have similar operational experience to you, but won’t use one hunting.

A) I don’t point my rifle in the field at things I’m just observing.
B) I use my rangefinder for a lot more than just a ballistic solution. Hence upgrading from an old Leupold tbr1200 (that half-reliably gets me 8-900) to an Sig 8k (that gets me a legit order of magnitude more). I use it to check that ridgeline over there. As an impromptu monocular when I don’t grab my binos. To range my next waypoint or point of interest (which is much more useful now that I can drop a pin in OnX). To see how far away that house/car/road/person is. None of those do I particularly want to do with my rifle.


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[Hawkeye29]

Hear me out. Find deer in bino’s. Switch to rifle. Range. Shoot.

Instead of: Find deer in bino’s. Range with range finder. Switch to rifle. Shoot.

I don’t see why having one on a rifle means you have to point it every which way to range random stuff. It’s no different than glassing with a rifle scope. Which we all agree is generally a bad thing.