I have a Bushnell Scout 1000. I wanted a range finder to play with but didn't want to spend a fortune and found this on offer somewhere for less than they were selling 2nd hand. Given that I thought if I didn't like it I could sell it again and not lose any money. I've been happy with it and it has done my job and I'd probably still get most of my money back on it.
It has done everything I need of it however claims of 1000 yard ranging are, basically, a lie in the real world. I've ranged a white painted house gable at over 800 yards but you'll not be ranging non-reflective targets like trees or deer at that sort of distance. It will range non-reflective targets like trees and deer in the 400 - 600 range and grass banks out to maybe 700 yards.
The glass is built to the American optical standard, which is to say it's awful in low light and not great in daylight. Despite this I've always been able to get a useful range even when shooting sika in forestry at last light, usually there is some landmark you can see and range when necessary. Also the display is LCD rather than LED and so hard to read in low light against a dark background - the easy solution to this is to range something and then point the range finder at the brighter sky to read the result.
Despite these comments I'd have another one but I'd shop around carefully. The other option, to buy a quality European unit second hand, is not so attractive with rangefinders as with binos and the like just because electronics do fail and even most of the "big names" will only stand over the rangefinder electronics for 5 years which must tell you something about the expected failure rate. I've no idea of the cost of repair but would guess it would be considerable. So, a 2nd hand quality unit is probably not quite such a good deal as something like binos but even so well worth considering and, as with all these things, you might get one that would work for another 20 years.
