Quote from: silvestris on May 02, 2020, 05:19:18 PM
If you call them close enough (for those who still call), a rangefinder is simply additional weight to tote.
From your posts and knowledge presented, I assume you are a fairly seasoned turkey hunter....
Many hunters maybe have 1-2 opportunities per season, and they are lucky to have that.
As a bird and wing-shooter, when I started turkey hunting, those birds looked A LOT closer than they were. As I have gained some experience, and called birds into good range, they now often look a bit further than they are.
I often take some experienced hunting friends (who have limited experience turkey hunting), and they often want to shoot that bird way too early. That big bird with that bright red head at 60 yards is a tempting target for an inexperienced turkey hunter.
This season, when I hunted with the pellet rifle, I carried a range finder, with a shotgun, it gets pulled from the vest (more due to the risk of losing it, rather than the weight)... But this season has been interesting for me in seeing how deceptive ranging birds can be in different types of terrain.
And to the OP... DO NOT try and range a bird you are wanting to shoot... Range the terrain before the bird arrives. When he is closer than "that rock" and he is within 30 yards... "That tree over there" is 40 yards, etc...
