Range Finders Digital Range finders - Give Me Utility, Not Gimmicks Digital Range Finders are great tools, especially when bow hunting. I use mine all the time but have found that the feature that needed most is only offered on the more expensive models and no it is not that silly angle calculating feature. The thing you need most is the ability to see the numbers in low light conditions. Most range finders, even the ones in the $200-300 price range have black numbers that are all but impossible to see at dusk and dawn when the big boys are usually seen. To get a red LED display that can be read at any time, even at night, you have to go to the expensive models, like the Leupold 1000 or the Leica series of range finders. I do not need a $1000 glass to measure 30 or 40 yards of distance, but I do need to be able to "read the numbers"!  Could some optics company please make a simple range finder with an LED display? While I am on this rant, I might as well tell everyone how useless I think an angle calculating function is in a range finder, especially for me as a bow hunter. I am sure you have seen commercials on TV and in magazines showing a diagram similar to the one above. Let's use the numbers in the diagram and complete the equation with the numbers that are missing. The deer is 32 yards away from the shooter, the deer is 23 yards away from the base of the tree. Complete the equation and you find that the hunter would have to be over 66 ft off the ground .  Let's put the hunter 25 ft off the ground and read the numbers. Wow, only one yard difference! All the fancy info that it calculates for you and the clutter in the viewer is, well just useless clutter. So this is a call to optics companies to make a compact digital range finder that gives me accurate straight line distance to the target with a red or green LED readout using a small reticle and numbers that don't block the view in the range finder for under $200 list!