Bushnell Yardage Pro 800 on sale

[BradCa]

Hi everyone!
I just picked up a Bushnell Yardage Pro 800 on sale for $249.88 at Bass Pro Shops (basspro.com).  The add on their web site says the sale ends on 8/25/02.  I've been shopping around for quite a while and I think that's a pretty good price.  I got it for my upcoming antelope hunt in the Likely Tables area of northern CA.  I'll let you know how it works.

 

[BradCa]

It worked great! The size is nice and compact. You can use one hand if you like and it fit nicely into a pocket in my fanny pack and in a pocket in my pants. It seems to be very accurate. While practicing at the range it was on the money out to 600 yards. I'm glad I got a model that would range out fairly far because even though I wouldn't shoot that far, it was nice to know that an animal was at, say 500 yards.

 

[DKScott]

Not to burst your bubble with your new toy (I have the 600 and love it), but these goats aren't necessarily a long-range proposition. I hunted Likely Tables a couple years ago and took my buck at 80 yards. I had previously passed on a buck at 125 yards. 10 minutes after I arrived on opening day, I had two decent bucks stroll by within 20 yards - both them and me right out in the open - and could have taken them at any time over the next 15 minutes at ranges of 20 to about 200 yards. I was waiting for my buddy to arrive and figured if these things are that easy, then no hurry. Bad decision by the way. When you see a good buck, take it. I was looking for a trophy and ended up hunting all week, taking a goat in the last hour of the last day, that was similar in size to the bigger of the two I saw the first day. I could have gone fishing. Doh!

Enjoy your hunt. That was my first (and so far only) antelope hunt and I loved it!

Come to think of it, I guess I used the rangefinder quite a bit after all.