Roger Hicks
Veteran
I believe the apostrophe is correct in RF's because as blindrobert said, it's an abbreviation, and the apostrophe stands for the missing letters in rangefinders.
Disputable. Why, then, isn't it R'F'F's? I'm neutral myself, as I think that regardless of grammatical theory, the comma after an abbreviation looks better visually and makes it easier to read, but among those who care, the balance is probably against the apostrophe.
REAL pedants will dispute the use of the possessive, preferring "the use of the possessive" to "the possessive's use" except (as far as I recall) when referring to people or (possibly) legal entities.
Then again, with a surname that ends in 's' (correct possessive "Roger Hicks's camera") I am accustomed to "Roger Hicks' camera" and even "Roger Hick's camera".
Cheers,
R.
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