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    Member Flyblown's Avatar
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    There's "advice" on here from members I respect that is complete bollocks.

    Last weekend Saturday I dropped my Vortex Ranger 1800 rangefinder onto my shed concrete floor. Purchased from Broncos April 2018.

    That rangefinder had been extremely well used. Hundreds and hundreds of animals, many shot at decent longish range. Mud, rain, sub-zero, baking hot (including being left on the dash in the sun once, oops).

    After I dropped it, it wouldn't give me a range. It would give me an angle, but not a range.

    I sent it to Broncos on Monday morning, and had a brand new replacement Diamondback 2000 in the postbox on Wednesday.

    No questions, no quibble.

    I've tested the replacement unit, and it's absolutely spot on, to the metre, out to 1,107m, which is as far as I have a validated (surveyed) distance to test with.

    In the meantime, I continue using two Vortex Viper PST scopes that are equally well used, that I bought in 2014, faultless. Ditto with the Diamondback binos bought in 2016, which have been given every chance to fail due to a very hard life, but haven't. And the Diamondback FFP scope on my .22LR which dials perfectly and gives me the confidence to shoot small critters at some crazy ranges for a .22.

    Ignore the "no receipt" thing and just buy from a Vortex retailer and keep your receipt. Photograph it and file it away. If you buy it online, file the retailer's email order confirmation properly. These things always matter.

    That's advice from recent experience, no the normal anti-Vortex blah blah we see on here, hey Andy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    There's "advice" on here from members I respect that is complete bollocks.

    Last weekend Saturday I dropped my Vortex Ranger 1800 rangefinder onto my shed concrete floor. Purchased from Broncos April 2018.

    That rangefinder had been extremely well used. Hundreds and hundreds of animals, many shot at decent longish range. Mud, rain, sub-zero, baking hot (including being left on the dash in the sun once, oops).

    After I dropped it, it wouldn't give me a range. It would give me an angle, but not a range.

    I sent it to Broncos on Monday morning, and had a brand new replacement Diamondback 2000 in the postbox on Wednesday.

    No questions, no quibble.

    I've tested the replacement unit, and it's absolutely spot on, to the metre, out to 1,107m, which is as far as I have a validated (surveyed) distance to test with.

    In the meantime, I continue using two Vortex Viper PST scopes that are equally well used, that I bought in 2014, faultless. Ditto with the Diamondback binos bought in 2016, which have been given every chance to fail due to a very hard life, but haven't. And the Diamondback FFP scope on my .22LR which dials perfectly and gives me the confidence to shoot small critters at some crazy ranges for a .22.

    Ignore the "no receipt" thing and just buy from a Vortex retailer and keep your receipt. Photograph it and file it away. If you buy it online, file the retailer's email order confirmation properly. These things always matter.

    That's advice from recent experience, no the normal anti-Vortex blah blah we see on here, hey Andy
    Nice of you to think of me Dave!
    Sounds like you have plenty of vortex products so when they break you have a spare till they can get a new one to ya!

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