Disassemble Bushnell Tour V5 Shift Rangefinder?

kygolfer81 · December 11, 2024

I've got a Bushnell Tour V5 Shift Rangefinder and the glass where the eyepiece is is loose. I can shake it and it moved in and out which depending on the position of that glass, it either makes the display unreadable or crystal clear. I figure I can probably take this thing apart and see what the issue is and maybe get it back where it should be assuming something hasn't broken off inside. Anyone know where the screws are to take the apart?

st1800e · December 11, 2024

Video for the V4, as he says, they’re all similar.

kygolfer81 · December 11, 2024

3 minutes ago, st1800e said:

Video for the V4, as he says, they’re all similar.

I saw that before posting but it seems mine is different and doesn’t have rubber like that which can be peeled off. Perhaps I should try once more and see if I can begin to peel it in a different area.

kygolfer81 · December 12, 2024

I figured it out. It's similar to this video but pretty hard to pull off all the rubber. It doesn't feel like it wants to come off and feels like you're going to definitely break something, but it does come off.

Tomypowerfade · February 13

Same issue.... clues???

kygolfer81 · February 13

8 hours ago, Tomypowerfade said:

Same issue.... clues???

If you follow that YouTube video, you'll get it. It's definitely not straight forward and you're 100% going to destroy the bond between the outer rubber and the plastic but that's how you get into it. Once I got into mine, I saw the issue was that a piece had broken inside which was causing the focus ring to not be able to turn. I was able to remove the broken piece and then manually got the eyepiece positioned so that it's in focus for me, but there's no way to adjust it now that it's back together given the ring is broken. I put it all back together with manually focused to a point where it's clear to me and it's good enough to use now. I have a silicon cover over mine which is now holding together all the rubber pieces I ripped off to get into it. It's definitely not something I could ever resell to anyone at this point, but it works. I ended up just buying a GolfBuddy 2S Pro on Amazon for ~100 as my main rangefinder and I just keep the Bushnell in my bag just in case. The Golf Buddy one is actually really nice. Optics are great and distances seem to be within a yard of the Bushnell (and who knows if the Bushnell is even right exactly?). Slope seems to definitely estimate more yardage than the Bushnell for uphill/downhill but again, hard to say which one is most accurate. It's close enough for me to get an idea. Golf Buddy also has "buddy" mode which allows you to triangulate distance which handy for cart path only days.

Edited February 13 by kygolfer81

Tomypowerfade · February 13

2 hours ago, kygolfer81 said:

If you follow that YouTube video, you'll get it. It's definitely not straight forward and you're 100% going to destroy the bond between the outer rubber and the plastic but that's how you get into it. Once I got into mine, I saw the issue was that a piece had broken inside which was causing the focus ring to not be able to turn. I was able to remove the broken piece and then manually got the eyepiece positioned so that it's in focus for me, but there's no way to adjust it now that it's back together given the ring is broken. I put it all back together with manually focused to a point where it's clear to me and it's good enough to use now. I have a silicon cover over mine which is now holding together all the rubber pieces I ripped off to get into it. It's definitely not something I could ever resell to anyone at this point, but it works. I ended up just buying a GolfBuddy 2S Pro on Amazon for ~100 as my main rangefinder and I just keep the Bushnell in my bag just in case. The Golf Buddy one is actually really nice. Optics are great and distances seem to be within a yard of the Bushnell (and who knows if the Bushnell is even right exactly?). Slope seems to definitely estimate more yardage than the Bushnell for uphill/downhill but again, hard to say which one is most accurate. It's close enough for me to get an idea. Golf Buddy also has "buddy" mode which allows you to triangulate distance which handy for cart path only days.

Thx. it's not worthy open it. I'll do the adjustment manually. Power Fade!!!