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New SIG Kilo 10K released
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<blockquote data-quote="31perersen" data-source="post: 3107079" data-attributes="member: 66782"><p>I don't know about buildings... lol, like you said, I shouldn't be shooting at those anyway. I use a rangefinding a TON though at their max ranges to see where an animal is because it determines what routes I will take to get close enough to shoot. In Alaska last fall we had a ram about 2 miles away, my buddy swore if we went up the front of the ridge he was on that we'd be close enough to shoot (inside 600 or so). I didn't think so since the ram seemed to me to be further up the ridge but we couldn't range either. We started that way and made it up to where my buddy thought we could make a shot but he was still 1200 yards. We couldn't get closer on that ridge so we would have had to hike all the way down and around the next ridge over and back up to get a shot. Unfortunately, it took us half a day to get where we were and it would be another day to get back down to where we could get to the bottom of the next ridge and back up again. Not being able to range how far the animal was (a giant rock bluff would be close enough) and the two options to hike to to get a shot (again we could have gotten the giant bluffs) cost us an opportunity by taking the wrong route. Very similar scenarios have come into play down here in the mountains. I want to be able to range large objects as far as possible, then the location of the animal to make a plan of attack. lol... I definitely use my rangefinder more for that than actually ranging an animal I'm ready to shoot, so being able to range mountainsides or bluffs at vast distances is also important to me. That's the reason I found my swaros about useless, half the things I needed to range were waaaay to far for anything swaro would ever range. I like my Leicas a lot but they didn't quite get what I needed either. I give up the quality of glass in my binos for the rangefinding capabilities and use mostly my 15x swaro or the BTX for "searching". It would be awesome to have a set of binos that had the 10k ranging ability with the Leica/swaro glass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="31perersen, post: 3107079, member: 66782"] I don't know about buildings... lol, like you said, I shouldn't be shooting at those anyway. I use a rangefinding a TON though at their max ranges to see where an animal is because it determines what routes I will take to get close enough to shoot. In Alaska last fall we had a ram about 2 miles away, my buddy swore if we went up the front of the ridge he was on that we'd be close enough to shoot (inside 600 or so). I didn't think so since the ram seemed to me to be further up the ridge but we couldn't range either. We started that way and made it up to where my buddy thought we could make a shot but he was still 1200 yards. We couldn't get closer on that ridge so we would have had to hike all the way down and around the next ridge over and back up to get a shot. Unfortunately, it took us half a day to get where we were and it would be another day to get back down to where we could get to the bottom of the next ridge and back up again. Not being able to range how far the animal was (a giant rock bluff would be close enough) and the two options to hike to to get a shot (again we could have gotten the giant bluffs) cost us an opportunity by taking the wrong route. Very similar scenarios have come into play down here in the mountains. I want to be able to range large objects as far as possible, then the location of the animal to make a plan of attack. lol... I definitely use my rangefinder more for that than actually ranging an animal I'm ready to shoot, so being able to range mountainsides or bluffs at vast distances is also important to me. That's the reason I found my swaros about useless, half the things I needed to range were waaaay to far for anything swaro would ever range. I like my Leicas a lot but they didn't quite get what I needed either. I give up the quality of glass in my binos for the rangefinding capabilities and use mostly my 15x swaro or the BTX for "searching". It would be awesome to have a set of binos that had the 10k ranging ability with the Leica/swaro glass. [/QUOTE]
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