Bullitt5339
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After a response in a separate thread where I said I knew a technique for scanning flags even with the shakiest of hands, I have been getting a bunch of Private Messages, so this is obviously a concern of many here on THP. So I thought that I would give you guys the technique that I use, which has never failed me. Because of my accident, I have nerve damage in my arms, so my hands shake pretty violently when I'm trying to be still, so I believe that if I can hit a flag from 300 yards out, anyone should be able to do it.
The first thing that you have to figure out is how to use the active search mode on your particular rangefinder. I've used 3 different ones and they all have had this option, although they all work a little different. I have the cheap Kick-Butt Rangefinder, so mine is fairly easy. I turn on the pinseeker mode and when I hold down the button to get a yardage constantly, it's in active search mode. It will continuously scan for yardages, but only shows the shortest yardage in the rangefinder that it has scanned. Finding how how to use this function on your rangefinder is the most important part of this process.
Once you're in active search mode, you simply start to the left or right of the flag and scan back and forth across it a couple times. Since the flag is hopefully the closest thing to you, it should display the distance to the flag, even though you've scanned across many yards. By moving across the flag, you're not stuck trying to hit the button one time and hit it with a single laser beam. I have found that this method works for me out to at least 300 yards consistently and I can pull a yardage in less than 10 seconds every time.
The first thing that you have to figure out is how to use the active search mode on your particular rangefinder. I've used 3 different ones and they all have had this option, although they all work a little different. I have the cheap Kick-Butt Rangefinder, so mine is fairly easy. I turn on the pinseeker mode and when I hold down the button to get a yardage constantly, it's in active search mode. It will continuously scan for yardages, but only shows the shortest yardage in the rangefinder that it has scanned. Finding how how to use this function on your rangefinder is the most important part of this process.
Once you're in active search mode, you simply start to the left or right of the flag and scan back and forth across it a couple times. Since the flag is hopefully the closest thing to you, it should display the distance to the flag, even though you've scanned across many yards. By moving across the flag, you're not stuck trying to hit the button one time and hit it with a single laser beam. I have found that this method works for me out to at least 300 yards consistently and I can pull a yardage in less than 10 seconds every time.
