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Are rangefinders with ARC worth the extra money? Or should I just get one without ARC? (mostly for bowhunting)
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I haven't gotten the chance to use the ARC feature too much on my rangefinder, but if I'm hunting a treestand, that feature is gonna be money anything outside 15 yards from the base of my stand.. There is good rangefinders with the ARC feature that aren't much more than the ones without it now.. I just bought the bushnell ARC 1000 and LOVE IT!
In my stand, I use my 30 yard pin and its dead on for close range!
The arc feature will be handy but as with anything newer like that. In a year or two it will be on all of them and the price will start to go down.
I don't use a range finder for bow hunting. I can estimate the distance from 5 to 40 yards easily and don't want to fiddle with anything by my bow when a deer is that close. I find range finders to be more useful for longer range estimating and although I haven't used an ARC feature, I would consider it more useful if I am hunting mountainous terrain where the relatively long range target could be at a significantly different elevation than I am.
Put it this way... If the angle of your shot changed the distance by 3 yards or so, would you change the shot placement or which pin you were using?
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I haven't gotten the chance to use the ARC feature too much on my rangefinder, but if I'm hunting a treestand, that feature is gonna be money anything outside 15 yards from the base of my stand.. There is good rangefinders with the ARC feature that aren't much more than the ones without it now.. I just bought the bushnell ARC 1000 and LOVE IT!
In my stand, I use my 30 yard pin and its dead on for close range!
The arc feature will be handy but as with anything newer like that. In a year or two it will be on all of them and the price will start to go down.
I don't use a range finder for bow hunting. I can estimate the distance from 5 to 40 yards easily and don't want to fiddle with anything by my bow when a deer is that close. I find range finders to be more useful for longer range estimating and although I haven't used an ARC feature, I would consider it more useful if I am hunting mountainous terrain where the relatively long range target could be at a significantly different elevation than I am.
Put it this way... If the angle of your shot changed the distance by 3 yards or so, would you change the shot placement or which pin you were using?
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