Best cheap rangefinder under 100. Where to buy affordable hunting rangefinders

Hi guys! How are you doing? Welcome to the channel again! I hope you enjoy yourselves. I’m having a great time! And today’s video is a fairly shortage video, and it’s on cheap rangefinder. I’m sure, we all know why it’s important to have a range finder, so that you know when air-rifle how far away your target is you can calculate the pellet drop, and trajectory. If you don’t, check out the beginner series videos. There’s one all about it there.

Item model	Range, accuracy	Batteries	Weight	Feature
TecTecTec VPRO500 Check the price	5 - 540 yards, ±1 yards	CR2 Lithium (included)	6.6 ounces	Rainproof
TecTecTec ProWild Check the price	5 - 540 yards, ±1 yards	CR2 Lithium (included)	185g	Water and dust resistant
Bushnell 202208 Check the price	5 - 540 yards, ±1 yards	1 CR2 batteries required	8 ounces	Weather resistant housing
Halo XL450-7 Check the price	5 -450 yards, ±1 yards	1 CR2 batteries required	7.2 ounces	6x magnification
Precision Pro Golf Nexus Check the price	3 - 400 yards, ±1 yards	CR2 Lithium (included)	6.8 ounces	6x magnification, water resistant
Wosports Rangefinder Check the price	5 - 600 m ±1 m	CR2 Lithium (included)	6.7 ounces	6 x magnification, rainproof
Leupold RX-650 Check the price	5 - 650 m ±1 m	CR2 Lithium (included)	10.4 ounces	6x magnification, Absolute waterproof and fog proof integrity

But range finders can cost a fortune. There’s loads of specialist ones out there. You know I love my ATN scopes. ATN I have brought one out now is a handheld one which will talk directly to the scope, set the range up, and work out all ballistics for me. Brilliant! 300 quid… Hmm, not paying that much. You know that is a lot of money, and then there’s some other ones out there now that will communicate through bluetooth to your phone. And once you put all the details of your rifle in it and your scope, it will tell you how many clicks to go up, how many clocks to go down, and it will say it or put it in earpieces for you. Great! Yeah, again, two to three hundred pound! I just want to know the range. I want to know that’s forty yards. I just want to press a button up. I don’t want all that fancy stuff!

So, like you, I’m sure you’ve searched around on eBay, and you have seen all of these rangefinders out there, all of them from say 50 pounds to 80 pounds. And they’re all Chinese, clones, copies of each other because they all are pretty much the same technology. And they have just been wrapped in different skins and different names on them, and everything. You are wondering: are they worth it? So, I thought I’ll take a bunch for you, guys. I got one, and this is just a clone. This one’s called an Eyoyo. What a great name! And I think this was 65 pounds from eBay. Now I did get it from a UK company, so if I had any problems, I could send it back. So I certainly recommend you do that. And as always, with the eBay be careful! You don’t know what you’re getting especially when there are clones of standard units, we’ve just rebadged and everything like that. So definitely get it from your own country and somewhere where
you can go and send it back to without having to wait months and months, and months. Now this one actually only took a couple of days to turn it up.

So I thought why not, let’s give it a go. Now according to this thing, will go up to 700 yards range-finding which is more than that it go to an air rifle. It will handle fog as well. So if it’s foggy, then it will solve that. I’ll talk a little bit more about how rangefinders work. So some of you, guys, might not know. They also does speed. So it will be able to tell you how fast some is going in meters per second on there as well. I think it even does feet per second. And some of them will even allow you to do trigonometry to work how height as well. This one doesn’t do that. And this is labeled, entitled, if we have a look here for all sorts of things but primarily golf and hunting. Now I play a bit of golf as well. So it’d be a good idea to have one. You know, I could stick with me a golf bag and work out how far away the pin is. And more importantly, I can set rangefinding for hunting and target shooting, etc.

So, would you like to look in the box. Lots of these are pretty standard. You get a nice little standard box in here. We get instruction manuals and 9 out of 10 these instruction manuals are Chinese converted into English, and it is pretty bad, pretty poor. Throw it away! You’re just going to have to work out how to use it. You usually get cleaning cloths. Nine times out of ten you’ll get one of these little batteries in here. I’ll point it down at the bottom what type of battery it is. But quite a lot of times it includes a battery for you. But more importantly is the unit itself. And they all look pretty much the same at this price range. And I’m pretty sure, they got exactly the same technology in them. They have come from the same factory, and they all behave the same. They’re just badged and colored differently.

Now this one is supposed to be weatherproof. Yeah, it’s not like you can throw it in the river but certainly if you out and rainy, it shouldn’t be too bad on here. For those who don’t know how these bad boys work is quite simple. What we’ve got here is if we look through that end, you see the wall behind going through. So the top part here is just like a mono scope. Okay, it’s just like one half of binocular, like a little telescope. And there’s a little LCD projection in there. What I try and do is I try and set up some tripod, so you can see the view through this as well. I’ve noticed that quite a lot reviews of rangefinders do not show you what you can see. So I’ll try and sort that out but basically you look through here, adjust the eyepiece for focus, and this bottom bit is the bad boy. That’s the laser. So what happens is when you press the button, the laser fires out at the speed of light 3 times 10 to the 8 meters per second, and then it will bounce off something and come back in. and in here is a very accurate little clock, and it knows how fast that light traveling because light is constant. And it knows how long it took to bounce back, and therefore it can work out the distance using simple speed time distance equations. That’s how it works. It’s that simple.

So it is a line of sight. If you want to range find, I say a rabbit out in the field, then you have to have a clear line of sight, put the crosshairs on it, press the button, and then it should pop up and tell you what is it in yards or meters. You can change this. And that is basically how they work. A little battery is in here, so if we just open up there and then we can just open this little bad boy up here, and got it open. Battery slots is in there, and then you connect it back up. Nice and simple.

Quite a lot of them are really, really simple. Two buttons: one to switch it on, and one to change the modes. So you switch it on. You make sure you in whatever mode you want. So, for example, range mode and then you press the button here. It tells you the range. And then there’s no switch off. It will power itself off after about 30 to 40 seconds of non-usage. It fires up instantly, and it’s good to go. And usually they come with a nice little carry bag as well to keep them on your belt. You can attach that to your belt, with a little belt strap here. It is quite a nice little unit.

So is it any good? Well, let’s go through the characters. When you’re holding it, you’ve got to be as steady as possible to get the crosshairs on there. Now this particular unit and I’ll leave a link to this unit has two features for range-finding. One is where you can just press the button and it will actually bounce the laser out and comes back, and tells you what it bounced off. And it’ll tell you then the distance in either yards or meters depending what you’ve got. The other one has a button feature where you keep the button pressed down and it’s constantly scanning. And I find that feature much more useful because you are wobbly trying to hold this. So I just keep the button pressed down and then when I know I’ve got the crosshair on, I look at the range, and it tells me what the range is and I find that extremely useful.

Another feature in this one also is the golf. Literally ten minutes ago down to my local golf course, and I just tried it out. I just stood at the top and just picked out some targets off the driving range of the gold flags. Stick it in the golf mode, where literally it just gives you like a little golf symbol, gold flag symbol. You put the crosshairs. Literally line it up on the flag. Now the flag doesn’t need to be out, a little bit hanging down on the pole. It’s not going to work very well on still day. And it actually does not work quite well. And the good thing about it is they also have the driving range marked out in meters, so I could check and it is pretty bloody accurate. It does work on that. I’ve also arranged find this one. Now it’s reported to be 700 meters, I am sorry it’s 700 yards. Now I’ve actually managed to range find with this out so about five hundred yards. It does take a bit of getting used to.

You know you have to get it really always as steady, as possible because you got remember now, that light is bouncing out and then it’s coming back. It’s travelling fast but little movements and it doesn’t quite get to the sensor. So it is possible, it does work after that business but, you know, what I am using this for air rifling. I will not use this over 100 yards, let alone 700 yards. Now for golf – yeah. That’s up to 300 yards, that was pretty good. I know I can’t hit a ball over 300 yards, and I can tell that sort of distance. So I can pick this up. That’s where the golf mode is, that’s where the flag is and I’m good to go.

But we are interested in is for air rifling. This does work for very, very well. The fog mode! In the UK we do get fog every night. Believe it, or not, all the stories are true. Now I have tried this in fog, and the problem with fog is that fog is basically small particles of water vapor in the air. And what happens is it disperses the laser beams around all over the place, and so they don’t balance back through to here. And what you actually get is and very false reading because the chances are that is going to send up the laser, it’s going to bounce off water droplets, come straight back, probably six or seven yards in front of you. So it causes problems. So this has a fog mode which is supposed to combat that by sending that more lasers and working out the average it comes back. It does not work. It doesn’t work. It wasn’t a really, really foggy day, I could see 100 yards in front of me and I tried range-finding out to 20 yards, 30 yards. It did not work. It was just coming back from its minimum distance of 6 yards. So, the fog mode on it doesn’t work.

But as a nice simple cheap little unit… I’ve had this now three months, maybe four months, and I’ve had zero problems of it. I think it is brilliant for the money. So are cheap laser rangefinders worth it? Well, yes! If you get the right one, like I said, do some reviews, check out, go to Amazon or to Ebay. I’d suggest you go to Amazon and look at the people on and then look at the reviews that they’re doing on there. And see what they said about a particular unit. And then buy that particular unit, if the reviews are quite good. Also, try to buy it from repertory. By that I mean on the Amazon where you can send it back to them because of their policies, or eBay where you have a local to your country trader who’s got a good feedback rating, and go back from there.

Do not buy directly from China or anywhere like that. And obviously, beware when you’re buying stuff like this. So personally I would recommend Amazon to get something like this. EBay if you want to risk it and you want to go slightly cheaper but then, of course, you are taking the risk. But for air rifling this cheap clone laser rangefinders work. They’re not as good as the more expensive ones, definitely not. And if you want to be out hunting coyotes at some 900 yards, no, no. That’s when you really start to be serious, and look for a proper rangefinder. But for air rifle is out there, yeah, absolutely brilliant. Why spend a fortune, when you do not need to.

So, hopefully that gives you a bit of confidence about going out and buying one of these for those that been thinking about it. I’m glad I got this one. It’s a good little unit. It does the job. It’s waterproof, you know, only you keep it dry. It’s good, it’s alright if it gets rained on. It is not a problem at all. It’s light. It’s simple. The batteries last for ages. It powers off when it doesn’t need to. And it does the job. It does the job very, very well.

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