Slinging.org Forum - Print Page

Slinging.org Forum
https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl General >> Other Topics >> Re: Anyone here ever use a range-finder? https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1157905097 Message started by Mike_R on Jul 10^th, 2005 at 1:00pm

Title: Re: Anyone here ever use a range-finder?
Post by Mike_R on Jul 10^th, 2005 at 1:00pm

Try in an archery or hunting place. They seem to love them there.

Title: Re: Anyone here ever use a range-finder?
Post by Zorrro on Jul 10^th, 2005 at 2:03pm

I've used an ACME rangefinder (20 yards of cord marked every 5 yards with a ballpoint mark)

Title: Re: Anyone here ever use a range-finder?
Post by be_slinger on Jul 10^th, 2005 at 2:51pm

I wish! That would be a good idea though.

There's a stump on the other side of a pond I use for a target that I'd like to know the distance of. Pacing it off would be a little difficult. I thought about using a compass and a calculator though. I'd just need to take a bearing on the stump, pace off a given distance in a straight line down the shore, take another bearing on the stump, and run the numbers on the calculator. Now if I could only remember that formula!

A rangefinder would indeed be a much easier way to do it..

Title: Re: Anyone here ever use a range-finder?
Post by lordivanthe5th on Jul 11^th, 2005 at 12:18am

ya i have no way of nowing how far i can sling i live in a wooded aria and my feild is about 600 ft long thay go past that and then thay ushaly hit a tree and i cant find them after that

Title: Re: Anyone here ever use a range-finder?
Post by Matthias on Jul 11^th, 2005 at 12:44pm

Sounds cool! I'm looking forward to the photos - sounds like a perfect solution for water slinging so long as the baseline is wide enough for accuracy in the 1-400m (maybe one day) range.

Matthias