Shootin4fun
Well-Known Member
I just sent my Sig 2000 in as well. It had no problem ranging a stop sign at 1760, but couldn't range a house or barn over 900-something, couldn't hit trees over 500, and wouldn't do a grassy hillside past 320. So unless I go around planting road signs all over my hunting areas, it's no better than my old Nikon. After reading about your customer service experience, I'm no longer optimistic...
Wow, unimpressive. I've extensively used 3 Leupolds- the RX750, which would easily range trees to 600, harder at 750, but sometimes reached beyond that. A LCD segment failed, so I sent it in (4 years old), and they don't make it anymore so they upgraded me to a brand new RX850. It was faster at ranging, and reached to 1K on many types of objects, trees and such to 850 easily. In the meantime someone GAVE me their RX1000, and it reaches to 1K easily on water tanks and such, takes a few tries on shrubbery but gets there. I have gotten readings at 1100 with the RX1000 that I verified by walking closer and taking several readings along the way. Leueupold's Customer Service is fantastic. Lifetime warranty, and as such I won't complain about a 3 week turnaround. These are all under $350 rangefinders.
I see that they do not make one rated for over 1200, so maybe not in competition to what you guys are all seeking. But at least they work consistently as advertised and it appears that L's Product Management and Engineering departments are not letting their Marketing department push them beyond what they can reliably do. Since I don't shoot past 1200 it is not an issue for me.