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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Golf Rangefinder on the Market, April 9, 2009
This review is from: Leupold GX-I Digital Golf Rangefinder (Sports)
I spent a lot of time researching both the Leupold GX-1 and the Bushnell V2 but all I could find, even in a large city, was the V2 to actually put my hands on. Thus, I had to take a chance and purchase the GX-1 online, but I am SO GLAD I did. If all you want is the short version of this...then go purchase the GX-1 as it's MILES ahead of the V2 in "every" aspect. If you want a few particulars...read on.
In addition to a product "being" right, I want it to "look" right and "feel" right. The GX-1 does these in spades. Just holding it, you know you're holding quality, and not something made of inferior plastic that will likely not look the same in six months of normal, let alone rugged, use. The GX-1 has a very rugged, rubberized feel that simply feels good in your hands.
Reticles. We're all different and we all prefer to view things differently through a rangefinder. The V2 has only one reticle (a small circle), while the GX-1 has seven different reticles from which to choose. I found I was comfortable with the default reticle setting, but for those who are not, there are six other available reticles. As opposed to the V2, the reticles on the GX-1 are very fine in detail...more professionally displayed would be a way to describe them. While the reticle on the V2s that I looked at seemed to have thicker lines and were more distracting, with some jagged edges in some cases. I noticed the same thing about the yardage numbers...they were larger and more defined in the GX-1.
6X magnification (GX-1) vs. 5x with the V2. I think it's just enough of a noticeable enhancement to be worthy of mentioning. I don't see much of a difference in viewing a flag or small target, but there's a big difference when shooting the front/back edges of a fairway bunker that give the GX-1 a big edge here with 17% more magnification.
Speed of acquiring the target. Here's where the GX-1 one absolutely blows away every Bushnell rangefinder on the market. The GX-1 is almost instantaneous, where the V2 won't display the range for what seems like a couple of seconds. That may not sound like much...but it seems like an eternity when you just want to shoot the flag and get on with your shot. The Callaway/Nikon rangefinders are also fast...but they are still no match in the other categories for the GX-1.
If you're a hunter, you know that Leupold has been around for a lot longer than Bushnell, making what hunters think are some the best and affordable optics available. The fact is that Bushnell is a very large company with obviously a large marketing budget, so you're going to see more of them and their products, especially in the retail stores. But that doesn't make them the best...only the biggest with the deepest pockets.
Technical support. I called both companies with a list of pre-sale questions and the person with whom I spoke at Bushnell might easily have been outsourced, though I doubt he was. He simply was not technically conversant in his own products. Contrarily, the person with whom I spoke at Leupold had all the answers, and made me feel comfortable he was an expert in the Leupold products.
If you want a high quality rangefinder that is better in all aspects than its competition, you simply can't do better than the Leupold GX-1 (tournament legal) or the GX-2 (compensates for slope, temperature, and also tells you what club to hit...after you train it).
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