Rangefinders necessary or not?
Hey guys
With PCP’s effective range of 25-150 yards is a rangefinder necessary? I’m trying to take in consideration that it has a loopy trajectory…which means range finding is more important. I’m also factoring in that some decent range finding can be done with parallax adjustment….although that is not its purpose. What do you guys think; and what do you guys do?
If I was to buy one, I’m thinking about the Leica CRF1000. It is now discontinued and has been replaced by the CRF1000R…..which I think is of little or no gain. Anyways….it’s between $469-499 delivered.
Dr. Steele
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I’ve tried range finding with my naked eye….I’m usually +/- 15 yards from 50-100 yards. That’s pretty sad…I know. I got to be worse in a wide open field.
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Certainly helps. Depends on what your shooting at. If an animal then a humane kill is always best and dictates good shoot placement. Shots 10-50 yards are somewhat easy to determine but beyond the rate of descent of the pellet is more pronounced. Take a look at chair gun and look at the trajectory at 75 yards and at 100 yards. Quite a bit of drop usually, you could miss you target by 8 inches or more in some cases. I can keep holdovers/holdovers in my head for anything less than 50 yards. After that I use a Chairgun generated range card. Also why a chrony is a good thing to have so you can determine your velocity to input into that program.
FT shooters use rangefinding through use of their scope to hit their 1.5in targets (correct me in I’m wrong on the standard FT target size) at maximum ranges of 50-55 yards.