Check out our review of a great budget rangefinder, the Nikon 2000 Monarch. Simple features, built into a rugged body that won’t break in the field.
Nikon Monarch Rangefinder
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in a time where rangefinders seem to be
getting more complicated as well as more
expensive it’s nice to see Nikon deliver
a rangefinder it can give you the basics
that are usable and at a price that’s
affordable when it comes time to take a
shot at either a target or a game animal
there’s a couple things that you need to
take into consideration to make sure
your projectile gets on target each and
every time
first is the exact distance downrange as
well as adjustments for shooting uphill
or downhill and then Nikon Monarch mm
rangefinder does just that each and
every time and in a price that’s
extremely affordable
this is a six Power monocular style
rangefinder that runs on one cr2 battery
which will yield you approximately 8500
uses it’s not much larger than your
standard business card and fits well in
your hand
it weighs 6.7 ounces with the strap and
battery installed and also has a diopter
adjustment that gets you a precise focus
each and every time the adjustments
available within this range finder are
very basic but also makes it very user
friendly
you cannot between yards and meters as
well as actual distance to target or
angled range which takes into account
the uphill or downhill to the target and
gives you the hold for distance you also
have the ability to select first target
or last target I like the last target
mode especially when I’m shooting longer
ranges it allows me to get on to the
target I’m ranging as I move around you
can also take one individual range or go
into continuous range or what some refer
to as scan mode holding down on the
range button will continue to give
ranges as you track an animal or target
for up to eight seconds the illumination
has five different brightness settings
which can be set manually or you have
the ability to set it on automatic which
adjusts for the ambience around and
gives you the best contrast without
blowing out your vision we found this to
work the best at all of our testing this
is the Nikon Monarch mm and I think what
everybody really wants to know is will
it really range out to 2,000 yards the
2,000 yards claimed is on a reflective
target and although I could never
replicate the tooth
and yards I was able to consistently
range reflective targets at just under
nineteen hundred yards trees are
expected to range out to twelve hundred
yards and deer size targets to a
thousand yards we exceeded this
consistently throughout our testing the
nikon monarch 2000 was designed to be
affordable but not give up the
essentials in a rangefinder they kept
this thing extremely simple as well as
extremely accurate Nikon literally hit
it out of the park with this offering
you got an MSRP of just under three
hundred dollars in an achieves angle
range compensation out past a mile
there’s truly nothing better in this
price range
