SenderoMan
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Thanks Wedgy and predator22 for the links!
This is where I got mine. It's in stock and $399 shipped, you have to hit "add to cart" to see the price. It was $414 when I bought mine a few months back so they've come down a bit.
SIG SAUER SOK16701 kilo 2000 7x25 laser - SavingLots.com
Picked one up last weekend after reading all the reviews. I live in the colorado mountains and went camping with it. It was a rainy weekend and I had a buddy with a Bushnell 1000 ARC. Each day we put it to the test, side by side if I could range it...so could he. Black cow @ 625 no problem with either device. The farthest range I was able to get was 958 on a flat solid rock about 80 feet by 20 feet....his Bushnell also ranged that rock @ 940, if I went to the side of that rock that was not perfect it would not range anything....of course the Bushnell didn't either. The sun came out for a while and it really didn't change the ranging of either device.
In short, I was disappointed, the sig has been returned to amazon for not living up to its hype. (a 200 dollar Bushnell did just as well) A vortex ranger 1500 is in the mail as we speak. I expect it to perform equally and with a much better warranty.
I actually have both rangefinders...three of my friends also have the bushnell arc 1000. The farthest I have gotten with my bushnell is 930, on a very overcast day in the evening. On bright sunny days, it will not even range 200 yards in the desert. My sig ranged 1325 yards on an extremely bright day here in Wyoming just the other day on a bare hillside. It would not go much farther on that day, but I didn't need it to. On trees or rocks I can easily get 1500 on any day regardless of how bright it is. Getting over 2000 is not that hard if I am steady and ranging large trees or reflective rocks. Your rangefinder must have had some serious issues, because none of the 4 bushnell arc 1000's have even come close to comparing with my sig in any way shape or form. Sounds like you got a flop. Too bad you didn't send it back to sig, could have been an opportunity to see about customer service
It did cross my mind to send it in, but it was a toss up for me between the vortex and the sig in the first place. I went with the sig purely on this thread. I expected it to be a little better, and was willing to sacrifice the VIP warranty for better performance. My sons elk hunt starts on the first and I didnt want to buy the vortex to have one for the hunt and then wait for sig to return it.
They seem to work really well for most people and that is good, just didnt work out for me.
Funny thing, at one point my youngest son (10) was calling out 1800 and 1900 yd ranges with it...I was thinking it was just me. Turns out he wasn't seeing the decimal. There were very good obstacles at that range to use also so it was completely possible it was working for him.