Customer Reviews

Bushnell Yardage Pro Golf Pinseeker 1500 Slope Edition Laser Rangefinder with Slope Calculator

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Surprised my husband with the Pinseeker 1500 for Christmas, we "BOTH" love it!! It is soooo "user friendly" and best of all "visually" user friendly! GREAT for the visually impaired over age "40" group who depend on the "Walgreen's" reading glasses! No need for glasses or lenghty instruction books-just aim at the flag and click the button-shows two distances. The actual distance and the distance it should play because of the slope!! Having the SLOPE FINDER is the most important aspect-this is what gives you the ACCURATE yardage. The "slope" differance" is what normally what makes the difference of which club to use.Many of the cheaper models do not allow for the slope-so what good is that, there's plenty yard markers on a course? It was fun to see what the course yardage markers read and then what the scope finder tells you. Makes your club selection so much more accurate! It's price is on the higher side, but for the quality, it's WELL worth it. My husband had tried a friends cheaper version, he actually could not use it because it was so hard visually to read. Before you buy one, be sure to check that out! Word of warning, your golfing partners will love to be in your golf group, asking you the yardage on "their" shots too!!

As another viewer mentioned-it's the best club in the bag, we HIGHLY reccomend it!!! Now....if it could only make the ball actually go to that exact spot, we'd all be happy golfers!!!

I love my rangefinder! I've had it since Oct.2006 and forgot it at home only once.
I've trusted my Pinseeker over tee box yardage markers, a myriad of GPS in-cart units, sprinker heads and the usual variety of yardage to the center of the green course markers 200, 150, 100. I believe what it tells me and it has been highly accurate. I'm reluctant to share the yardage info with my fellow players unless asked, to avoid chatty debates and responsibility for their errant shots.(you'd be surprised...)

A few things to be aware are, the flags must be clearly visable of distant out of focus shrub branches that can interfere with the laser sensor, low light overcast conditions can be difficult to accurately measure distance and lastly, if you've heavily consumed too much COFFEE or too many martinis the night before, shakiness will prevail. You may want to add a tripod to your bag. % )

I have only used it a few times and like it, especially the slope feature (I'm not a tournament player), but I must point out that it took me a while to learn to steady it enough to get good readings. It still takes me too long to get readings when the flag is more than 200 yds away, especially when there is no wind and when the background is cluttered. Perhaps I will get better results with more use and practice. I play with friends who are low handicappers (I'm not) and who don't waste time on the course. While they ask me for readings when the slope of a hole is great, I usually don't have much time to get readings and keep playing at a steady pace. The instruction manual is too sketchy for my liking.

I bought this rangefinder to take to Myrtle Beach for a golf outing. Since we play a different course every day, I hoped it would give me true yardages on a course I hadn't played before. It out performed my expectations. Every golfer knows that the yardages on the course are to the center of the green. But some greens are 1 to 2 club lengths more. This rangefinder gave perfect yardages for me.
This rangefinder has three modes of operation. You can use it for hunting with the first mode, which just gives you yardage to any target you aim at. The second mode is the pin seeker mode for golf. You aim at the flag and press the button and it gives you the yardage to the flag. The third mode is the pin seeker w/slope mode for golf. You also aim at the flag and it gives you the distance to the pin plus or minus the slope to the green(this mode is illegal for USGA tournaments).
It was very helpful off the tee. You could aim it at a fairway bunker or hazard from the tee and you could get a yardage that would let you know whether you could carry it.
I found it very easy to operate and a great product.

This is my third Bushnell in 5 years (lost one, the other was no good over 150 yds).This is one great piece of equipment. Everyone that uses it just smiles. The Vertical yardage is great, but its like have a tach in your car, after a couple of weeks you know how much to add for elevation. Leaves its predecessors/competition in the dust. You should buy this for two reasons:
1) It is UNCANNY how fast it finds the flag, just have to get it close.
2) It finds an object at 350 yards as easy as it does at 100. It just finds flags faster.
This is probably the only piece of equipment in my bag that I did not pay to much for.

I considered various alternatives of rangefinders and am thrilled that I chose both this type and this model. It is easy to use, has great features and is very accurate. I primarily use just the distance feature, but for non-competitive rounds the effective distance feature taking into consideration upward or downward slope is very cool. I also like the carrying case which can be attached to a bag or pull cart and provides easy accessibility to the rangefinder. I just returned from a trip to Ireland where many of the courses have few if any distance markers. It was indespensible.

This Bushnell 1500 Rangefinder with Slope was a birthday replacement for an older model I've had for years. The pinseeker mode was a wonderfully pleasant surprise. With my old model, sometimes I'd try to shoot a flag from about 200 yards out and, if it was hanging limp, I might "shoot" it 10 or 15 times and not get it. But with this new rangefinder it's not a problem because I just have to point in the direction of the flag and keep moving it around a little bit until it nails the flag, then promptly displays the shorter of the yardages it obtained. Now I can shoot from any distance and get the exact yardage within 3 seconds at most. I promise you this feature alone makes it worth any extra money over buying a rangefinder that can't make these "continuous" readings. But I now wish my wife hadn't spent the extra money to get the slope feature. It works sure enough, but I find it of little or no value. I'm a golfer, after all, and I know pretty well how much club to add on or take off for most slopes better than a robot calculation based strictly on the angle of the slope. For example, it doesn't calculate wind or lack thereof, and that's just as important as slope to a successful golf shot. Great product!

I've tested the Bushnell Yardage Pro Golf Pinseeker 1500 Laser Rangefinder w/Slope on several courses and find the yardage detection to be "Dead-On". It's very light and easy to use. The 7x magnification makes it so easy to zero in on the target (pin, front & back of bunkers, front of green, far side of hazard, etc.). I always take 2 or 3 readings, to make sure of the distance. The slope is nice as it calculates the actual yardage, the degree of elevation and most helpful, the effective yardage. Now, all I have to think about is hitting the target!

I first tried SkyCaddie, and liked it until slow lock on, short battery life and bad readings started happening more and more often. The laser rangefinder is accurate to within a yard, the battery last a year (its only on for a few seconds per hole and turns itself off. The one advantage SkyCaddie has is yardage to hazards, the end of fairways etc. but is easily worked around with the laser rangefinder, just shot the object (it can distance anything, not just the pin).

I purchased the Pinseeker 1500 w/slope after making a trip to Hawaii and playing golf with a friend who had one. It has given me very accurate distances to the hole from my position on the fairway (and woods too). I have played golf now for over 40 years and this is probably the single most important investment I have made. The Pinseeker did not have everything to do with my first hole in one, but it gave me the proper distance to the hole from the tee and I used my five iron to hit the ball 172 yards for my first ace. The ease of use and valuable information it gives makes it a "no brainer" for the serious golfer. It has also allowed me to get yardages much quicker therefore speeding up my rounds. I highly recommend the Bushness Pinseeker 1500 w/slope!