Bushnell Tour V4: Manual, Reset, Slope and Battery Guide

The Bushnell Tour V4 is a 2016 laser rangefinder that is still in more golf bags than most current models, and it takes a single CR2 3-volt lithium battery behind a screw cap. If your V4 shows every icon at once and will not take a reading, it is in setup mode, not broken — pull the battery for ten seconds and put it back. That one fault accounts for most of what owners search for. This page collects the rest: units, slope, reset, batteries, cases that fit, and what a used one is worth.

Specifications we can confirm

Only figures we could trace to Bushnell’s own support material or to a published manual are listed. Where a number is not confirmed, it says so rather than being filled in with a plausible guess.

The Tour V4 Shift is a separate, later product with its own Bushnell support page — do not treat the two as interchangeable when you are ordering parts or looking up a procedure. Both are listed on the model index with the rest of the range.

How to use a Bushnell Tour V4

1. Turn the eyepiece until the display and the crosshairs are sharp. This is a dioptre, not a zoom — set it once for your eyes and leave it.
2. Press the power button once. The display wakes and shows the reticle.
3. Hold the crosshairs on the flag and press and hold the button. The V4 scans while you hold it.
4. When it locks on the pin rather than the trees behind it, JOLT gives a short vibration and the yardage settles.
5. Let go. The reading stays on screen for a few seconds, then the unit sleeps by itself.

If you have never used a laser before, the general technique — bracing, what to aim at when the flag is tucked, and why you should also shoot the front and back of the green — is on our how to use a golf rangefinder page.

Switching the Tour V4 between yards and meters

This is the single most-searched Tour V4 question, and it is also the one that goes wrong most often, because the unit-switch and the setup-mode fault look identical from the outside. On the V4 the units are changed by holding the power button down while the unit is on until the display cycles; the abbreviation in the corner of the display tells you which mode you are in.

The button sequence differs per Bushnell generation, and the V3 in particular behaves differently. We keep the per-model table on how to change a rangefinder from meters to yards, which covers fourteen models including the V3, V4, V5 and V6.

Slope on the Tour V4: which version do you have?

There are three Tour V4 variants and they do not all have slope. A plain Tour V4 has no slope function at all, so there is nothing to turn off. The Tour V4 Slope Edition and the later V4 Shift do, and they use a physical slider rather than a menu setting — which is exactly what makes them usable in competition.

On a Slope Edition and on the V4 Shift, the Tour V4 emblem on the left side of the body is the switch. Slide it down until the red mark is hidden: red visible means slope is on, red hidden means slope is off and the unit is showing true, uncompensated distance.

Every model we have documented, and where its slope control physically lives, is in the table on how to turn slope off on a rangefinder.

Batteries: what the Tour V4 takes and what goes wrong

One CR2 3V lithium cell, behind a screw cap. Not a CR123A — that is the Pro X7, and ordering the wrong cell is a common and avoidable mistake. A CR2 in a rangefinder that gets weekend use typically lasts a full season, because the unit spends almost all of its life asleep.

Three battery-related symptoms are worth separating, because they have different fixes:

Battery type per Bushnell model is on the Bushnell rangefinder battery page, and the cross-brand finder table is on which battery does my rangefinder take.

Tour V4 problems and how owners actually fix them

These are the faults that show up repeatedly in owner forums and in the questions Google records against the model. None of them require the unit to go back to Bushnell unless the last row applies.

A symptom-by-symptom version covering all brands is on rangefinder not working. For anything that needs Bushnell to look at it, warranty terms and the repair route are on rangefinder repair and warranty.

Cases, magnets and mounts that fit a Tour V4

The V4 body is a conventional vertical laser shape, so it fits the great majority of universal cases. Two things are worth checking before you buy: whether the case still closes with a magnet mount stuck to the side, and whether the belt clip or carabiner suits how you actually carry it.

• Bushnell cases by model — what shipped in the box, and the aftermarket options
• Rangefinder magnets and straps — the V4 has no built-in magnet, so this is an add-on
• Cart holders and cradles — for riding carts and push carts
• All golf rangefinder cases compared

Is a used Tour V4 still worth buying?

It is a 2016 model, so a new one is not an option. On the used market the V4 sits below the current Tour line and above the Amazon budget brands, and the two things that decide whether a particular unit is a good buy are optical condition and whether it still holds a lock at distance. Neither is visible in a photograph.

• Ask the seller to range something at 150 yards or more and send the reading.
• Look through it before you pay if you can. Internal fogging and fungus are the two faults that cannot be fixed cheaply.
• Confirm the battery cap is present — it is the part owners lose.
• Establish whether it is a plain V4 or a Slope Edition. They are worth different money and only one is competition-legal with slope engaged.

The full inspection checklist and where to buy is on buying a used golf rangefinder. If you are replacing rather than repairing, the current-model comparison is on the model index and price cycles are on golf rangefinder deals.