It works ok, don’t get me wrong. Some people do think it is an easy button and they have one turret and think just dial and shoot. That is the problem I have, people don’t have all the information with it they need.
I have helped my buddy shoot long range, so he does ok with his CDS dial, but others in the hunting group were slinging lots of lead without much thought. Like dozens of shots.
If you are shooting like I have on a ledge 350+ feet off the valley below and the laser distance is 550 yards, what are you going to dial? If you use angle compensation in your rangefinder for a shoot to distance, then you don’t know the actual distance for your wind call. If you use actual distance you then need to calculate the shoot to distance because of the angle.
Dials aren’t sent with a manual about its limitations. Dope cards have their own limitations, but I use them as backup. And, true they aren’t much different than a dial.
I don’t like to leave anything to hope or guesswork. I like to have exceedingly high levels of confidence.
@SkinnerinAZ and I killed our bucks at 575 with one shot in AK. Like this…