Well I got the right battery put in it and this thing is amazing. I only used it for a few minutes while I was on lunch at work.

I was able to range tree on a distant hill freehand at just short of 1300 yards about 60% of the time. With a rest I could hit them over and over. I could range builings at over 600 yards in about a second without fail. All the ranges were totally repeatable.

While this unit is much more expensive than the Bushnell Arc1000 I've been using in my opinion the difference is worth it if you plan on doing any true long distance shooting. I could not even come close to the speed and distance that I have with this one on my first use. It was difficult with the Bushnell to get a range over 400 yards on much of anything less than the size of a house.

I still have a lot of testing to do but so far am very pleased with it.

Wow 1300 yards is a LONG ways.  It's much farther than I would ever plan to be shooting.  My main use for a range finder would be to deternmine whether an archery target is 30 yards or 40 yards, not the difference between 1200 and 1300! 

I guess I wouldn't expect anything other than top of the line performance from Zeiss.  But I wouldn't have expected any civilian range finder to reach out beyond 1,000 yards.  Holy smokes!  That is impressive.  Thanks for the information Hunter25.

Mike  

Please let me clarify that I have no intention of shooting at game animals that far away. The farthest I believe I would shoot is 500 yards. But I do enjoy shooting farther at targets in field like conditions to test my abilities. Antelope hunting my Bushnell was not much help past 300 due to the size of the animal and nothing in the terrain to get a range around them. Hopefully this one will be much more effective.

No worries, I didn't think that you would be hunting at 1300 yards (I don't think anyone should).  It's still pretty neat that you can range that far though.