MiLESEEY Rechargeable Range Finder with Slope Switch, Flag Lock, Vibration - 660 Yds, ±0.55 Yd Accuracy - Tournament Legal

I'm one of those nerds who research everything to death before a purchase so before buying this I watched countless YT ads and read numerous reviews. Eventually I took the plunge - although tbh it's not much of a plunge at this price - and bought it. I've been more than pleasantly surprised by the quality and how well it works with one caveat which I'll mention later.I took it out to my course last weekend. There were a number of positives for me and a few areas for improvement:1. It attaches to your bag really well - the clip to attach to the bag then the elastic hook on the case itself which allows you to open the zip but keep the case safe meant really fast access.2. The eyepiece of the rangefinder is easy to focus. Make sure you do that properly as I was tempted to accept slightly less than completely in focus and that made the eventual flag location harder. My fault. The image should be very crisp.3. I tried the normal crosshairs mode first with slope button off as that makes it competition legal. To be honest I found this quite difficult. Yes, I improved quite quickly but it still wasn't easy, especially as we had a (not strong) wind that day. It moves about making it hard to know when to press the button for distance. It took several goes with most of them ending with a distance to the trees behind the flag rather than flag itself. However, I did get better at it and when I did the distances were spot on. I know this because we have signs out on the range at 50/100/150 etc. and I focussed on them.4. However, the real power of the rangefinder becomes obvious when you switch the slope button on and select flag lock and vibration . IMPORTANT: You can only use flagpole lock and vibration with slope button ON ( which makes it illegal for comps!) Not sure why they decided on this or if there is a technical reason. More later.5. Flagpole lock and vibration is AWESOME !!!! Slope button on, press mode button, flag icon appears. You point at the flag and basically wave it slightly right then left and buzz. You get the vibration and distance. So quick ! Loved this mode which makes it stranger that it wasn't put into the slope button off side.6. Charging is a breeze with USB and battery easily lasted a practice on the range plus a full round.7. Customer service. I've seen a couple of negative comments about this company in regards to communication but that hasn't been my experience. I fired off an email about the flag lock and vibration only being available with slope button on and they got back to me overnight , confirming this and asking if I thought it would be useful for them to add this to the slope off side. Surprised they hadn't done that automatically but still good, quick response.Negatives. Only one really but that is a big one. One of the reasons I bought the rangefinder was to use in competitions. It is a great piece of kit but it looks like I'll have to learn how to use the slope off/crosshairs method during competitions. No, nobody will check - not sure how they could as the very fact it has the slope off button makes it a legal device - but that's not really the point. Pity as otherwise this is a superb piece of kit.One other small issue I found but maybe it won't bother others. When you put your eye right up to the eyepiece I found first I had to slightly push my cap up a bit ( not really an issue) but also the actual lense isn't far at all from the entrance to the eyepiece so you find your eyelashes showing up, obscuring a part of the screen. It'd be good if they added just a little depth so the lense was deeper into the eyepiece to avoid this.Overall, I'm going to keep this rangefinder. One round more with it and I'm starting to love it. It's quick to use and in still conditions there is no issue with the crosshairs although a bit of wind and that changes. It's the difference between having to be spot on the flag and being able to let it move naturally left to right with flag lock and vibrations. It sounds silly but it has also added a fair amount to my confidence in standing up to a shot. I used an Apple watch and Golfshot which was great but it only gave me front middle and back distances and some of our greens are about three clubs deep, allied to the fact that our greenskeepers have a strange idea of what middle is! It could be as much as ten yards out.Finally, the company in their email said that if I thought it was a good idea, then they try to incorporate customers' thoughts into their next version and that they have passed my suggestion re slope side having flagpole lock and vibration to their software engineer so it may be the the next version will solve this.If you can operate crosshairs mode well ( I'm getting on a bit and it's quite tiring holding it up for a while so it can capture the flag) or if you don't need it for competitions I find it hard to imagine a better choice for a rangefinder.

A good value first golf rangefinder it’s a comfortable fit in the hand and easy to use.

Good product, been using it for a few months now, its easy to use and i enjoy having the screen on the side to.refer to. only negative thing to say is the JOLT/vibration function when you lock in in the flag doesn't always work.

I do love a bit of golfing and consider myself to be quite good (without blowing my own trumpet!) so this addition to my golf accessories seemed like the perfect fit after seeing it used by so many people. It’s a brilliant little device which makes life a lot easier on the course. I’ve seen some of these which are much more expensive but in all honesty I can’t imagine how much better it can get as the zoom lens and quality is superb.

I was unlucky to receive a duff product but customer service sorted out a refund without too much issue.

Looks a nice little bit of kit, but when using it it wouldn’t locked on to the flag every time .only three times out of 18 holes and even though it does come up with the distance because it hasn’t actually locked on you’re not 100% sure in your head if it’s correct, which is no good to me

Well pleased with this product. Seems to read well even up to 200 yards.

I have been waiting for the rechargeable version for a while and it has been worth the wait. The battery life is superb and it charges very quickly too.As other reviews state it is difficult to locate the flag in the wind on non slope mode, it is a lot easier with slope as it can lock the flag with a little wiggle. This would be a good feature to add on the next model.I havent really used the other features but they seem easy enough to navigate with the top button.A good product and matches the expensive models out there.