Shotscope pro L1 - embarrassing user error!

[doctorgriffo]

I bought the shotscope pro L1 earlier in the summer, but didn’t use it much until a few weeks ago. According to the rangefinder I Had 210 to the flag on a hole on my home course I know well. Seemed a bit short, but went with it and came up well short. Didn’t think much of it (assumed I didn’t catch it as clean as I thought, or there was a bit more wind) , but I’m the next hole, par 3, it gave a reading 12 yards short of what I know the hole to play. Others in my group lasered it and confirmed my rangefinder was short again. Checked it against their Bushnell devices on the next hole and again it was 10 yards short.

shotscope customer service were great, and sent me a new one - seemed weird, given the technology, for this to happen, but I assumed it was a faulty unit. Took the new one out today, and it did the same thing! My son has my old bushnell pinseeker (15 years old, but bulletproof), and we compared the shotscope to the bushnell, while standing in a yardage sprinkler head. 10-15 yards short every time (Arccos gps was within a yard or two of the sprinkler head to the middle of the green, and the Bushnell seemed spot on knowing where the pin was).

UPDATE: after stopping and thinking, and remembering that these are produced for the European market, I figured out that the differences were exactly the difference between yards and meters… shotscope customer service never suggested checking that it was in the correct mode (and I didn’t realize it had two modes - my old rangefinder was so old it only had yards). Turns out that If you hold down the wrong button (two buttons on top, one for measuring, one for toggling between modes) it jumps between yards and meters. They probably thought no one could be that stupid.

I was going to try and delete this post to hide embarrassment, but thought I’d just own it for your amusement.

Edited September 19, 2021 by doctorgriffo
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