My new leupold rangefinder hardly works....any ideas why?

Shane_2626 · March 25, 2016

So I bought a new unused leupold gx2 rangefinder off of the bay last month and took it out for my first round of the year today. I know this model is a few years old but when I got it everything was still in the wrappers and was never opened. For some reason this thing cannot pick up anything further than like maybe 50 yards and it won't pick up any pins. I couldn't even get a reading to the pin when I was just off of the green. I have no idea why it is having such a hard time picking anything up. My friend played the back 9 with me and he has a bushnell v3 and he was having no problems whatsoever, and when he tried mine he couldn't get it to work either.

I bought this unit in part because of the positive reviews of the unit and the leupold name, and the fact that it was unused.

Has anyone had any problems like this before? Any ideas for me to get it to work?

Appreciate the help!

Shambles · March 26, 2016

That's not normal.

Circuits should be intact regardless of age. Casing and packaging should show nothing more than weather and age.

Check the battery or simply replace the battery and try again.

Shambles

bu11dog · March 26, 2016

Contact Leupold. My Gx2 was out of warranty and they took care of me anyway when I started having trouble. They really stand behind their stuff.

Shane_2626 · March 26, 2016

I will replace the battery and see if that works.....I just put in the battery that came with the unit and it still shows a full battery on the unit itself. Maybe I will also reset the unit back to factory settings to see if that works.

As far as contacting leupold, it doesn't matter that I bought the unit off of eBay does it?

Shane_2626 · March 26, 2016

I just replaced with a brand new battery and reset back to factory settings and it still doesn't work right. It will pickup my neighbors flower pot 44 yards away but when I go further out to a white vinyl fence one more property away it doesn't give me any readings. I would think a solid fence or the side of a house would give me something but it doesn't.

Thinking I may have to just contact leupold and see if they can help me out.