Posted: 1/28/2015 7:25:47 PM EDT
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Need a reliable chronograph at a good price, preferably one available on Amazon so I can get it here by Friday. Help me out GD.
http://www.amazon.com/Competition-Electronics-ProChrono-Digital-Chronograph/dp/B0028MTBJ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422487564&sr=8-1&keywords=chronograph That one any good? |
Whatever you do don't buy this fucking piece of shit. This is a tag to see what I should replace mine with. ETA: Why I hate it, lighting has to be perfect for it to read, which by the way is not full sun, but a slight tinge of overcast between 2:42 and 5:28 PM on June 11th but not during a leap year. When you do have good light, it reads at best 2 out of 3 shots. When you trickle charge within .1 grains, with bullets selected by weight within .1 grains, loaded in fire formed neck sized cases, it will give you 200 FPS variance between your loads  If you can't trust your chronograph you're better off without one. I wish I had shot mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Chrony-7000099-F1-Chronograph/dp/B001R6B06E/ref=sr_1_2?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1422488324&sr=1-2&keywords=chrony&pebp=1422488327662&peasin=B001R6B06E |
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How would I end up shooting it? The whole unit is mounted tripod, including the electronics. You will inevitably shoot it by accident, or deliberately because you're frustrated at it. The M2 and 35P have only the sky screen/sensor assembly, the electronics stay at the bench connected by wires. The Magnetospeed is mounted under your barrel. |
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Quoted: How would I end up shooting it?  What gun are you using? Remember and AR or scoped rifle has quite a difference between the height of the site and the bore. Aim closer to the top of the chrono rather than the middle.
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I have owned one of those "Shooting Chronys" for years. At least 10 years but I bet it's longer than that.
I have been completely satisfied with it, and no, I have never shot it. I have probably shot 1000 rounds of ammo through the screens and never came close to shooting the chronograph. I have seen them shot, but not mine. I saw a guy shoot three of them inside of 10 minutes. I can't see how you could possibly shoot the electronics, but maybe I am missing something. If you put the thing 15 feet away from you can you can't help but to shoot the chronograph electronics...................I don't know what to tell you, but the velocity of your loads is the last thing you need to worry about. |
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With whatever gun you are trying to chrono!
What gun are you using? Remember and AR or scoped rifle has quite a difference between the height of the site and the bore. Aim closer to the top of the chrono rather than the middle. Quoted:
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How would I end up shooting it?
What gun are you using? Remember and AR or scoped rifle has quite a difference between the height of the site and the bore. Aim closer to the top of the chrono rather than the middle. ARs from tripod. How far away do you place these things from the muzzle? |
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Quoted: ARs from tripod. How far away do you place these things from the muzzle? Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: How would I end up shooting it? What gun are you using? Remember and AR or scoped rifle has quite a difference between the height of the site and the bore. Aim closer to the top of the chrono rather than the middle. ARs from tripod. How far away do you place these things from the muzzle? |
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Need a reliable chronograph at a good price, preferably one available on Amazon so I can get it here by Friday. Help me out GD. http://www.amazon.com/Competition-Electronics-ProChrono-Digital-Chronograph/dp/B0028MTBJ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422487564&sr=8-1&keywords=chronograph That one any good? I've got this exact model arriving Friday and probably returning on Monday
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Since the first post listed the Oehler 35P as the second choice, I'll second that recommendation, I've had my Oehler 35P since 1996, It's still functioning as good as day one. I even use it to chronograph arrow speed from my compound bow, I don't think other chronographs will go down to 346 fps. It's an investment which will pay off in data for many years. Also the support from Oehler is superb if you need it. |
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Since the first post listed the Oehler 35P as the second choice, I'll second that recommendation, I've had my Oehler 35P since 1996, It's still functioning as good as day one. I even use it to chronograph arrow speed from my compound bow, I don't think other chronographs will go down to 346 fps. It's an investment which will pay off in data for many years. Also the support from Oehler is superb if you need it. This. Cry once. I have had mine since the late '90's also. Bought it without the printer originally and upgraded to the printer last year. The Oehler 35P is the gold standard in consumer chronographs. I have used mine extensively, including indoors with the optional light kit and it has always delivered. |
Also if you're flush with cash, the Kurzzeit BMC-19, successor to their PVM-21/PVM-2008/BMC-18, is a good one 
Out of all the ones I mentioned, my favorite is the Magnetospeed. The best part about it is that it's easy to set up, because there's no need to go in front of the rifle and line things up. The only downside is that since it's attached to your barrel, it affects POI slightly (though it doesn't seem to affect accuracy). But then again, I do load development and chronographing in two separate steps. |
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You WILL choot it eventually. On our 2nd shooting chrony, 1st made it through 2 hits. The F1's do have a small sweet spot to shoot through setup is critical to get them to read correct.
Most of the time sunshades on and the dimer the light the smaller the sweetspot. |
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Whatever you do don't buy this fucking piece of shit. This is a tag to see what I should replace mine with. ETA: Why I hate it, lighting has to be perfect for it to read, which by the way is not full sun, but a slight tinge of overcast between 2:42 and 5:28 PM on June 11th but not during a leap year. When you do have good light, it reads at best 2 out of 3 shots. When you trickle charge within .1 grains, with bullets selected by weight within .1 grains, loaded in fire formed neck sized cases, it will give you 200 FPS variance between your loads If you can't trust your chronograph you're better off without one. I wish I had shot mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Chrony-7000099-F1-Chronograph/dp/B001R6B06E/ref=sr_1_2?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1422488324&sr=1-2&keywords=chrony&pebp=1422488327662&peasin=B001R6B06E Yup...it's piece of shit. I had one and got rid of it. It was off so bad that it nearly had me shooting sub minor at a Level 2 USPSA match. Had my last round had not been hot enough, it would have done me in. My power factor was 125.0 for 9mm. |
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OP, I got this one for X-mas, but won't be able to shoot thru it for a while, but everything I have read says it works pretty good...
http://ads.midwayusa.com/product/628006/caldwell-ballistic-precision-chronograph-premium-kit?cm_vc=ProductFinding |
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Need a reliable chronograph at a good price, preferably one available on Amazon so I can get it here by Friday. Help me out GD. http://www.amazon.com/Competition-Electronics-ProChrono-Digital-Chronograph/dp/B0028MTBJ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422487564&sr=8-1&keywords=chronograph That one any good? I've got this exact model arriving Friday and probably returning on Monday Why? |
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This. Cry once. I have had mine since the late '90's also. Bought it without the printer originally and upgraded to the printer last year. The Oehler 35P is the gold standard in consumer chronographs. I have used mine extensively, including indoors with the optional light kit and it has always delivered. Quoted:
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Since the first post listed the Oehler 35P as the second choice, I'll second that recommendation, I've had my Oehler 35P since 1996, It's still functioning as good as day one. I even use it to chronograph arrow speed from my compound bow, I don't think other chronographs will go down to 346 fps. It's an investment which will pay off in data for many years. Also the support from Oehler is superb if you need it. This. Cry once. I have had mine since the late '90's also. Bought it without the printer originally and upgraded to the printer last year. The Oehler 35P is the gold standard in consumer chronographs. I have used mine extensively, including indoors with the optional light kit and it has always delivered. I bought mine last year. Worked flawlessly all summer ( I shot over 3000 rounds through it). That said, the Competition Electronics ProChrono (as the OP linked) served me well when I shot USPSA. Only a few hiccups, but it was easy to transport and set-up. |
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$550 (well, $549) for that. Well worth it, one device and you have velocity data at 5 user set distances from muzzle out to 100yd+, useful to calculate the Ballistic Coefficient of your bullets if you don't know it with that. Plus, it won't likely get shot! I want one, they are supposed to start shipping soon. K-band doppler radar @ ~26Ghz (channel selectable to run more than one unit in proximity) |
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Quoted: I have owned one of those "Shooting Chronys" for years. At least 10 years but I bet it's longer than that. I have been completely satisfied with it, and no, I have never shot it. I have probably shot 1000 rounds of ammo through the screens and never came close to shooting the chronograph. I have seen them shot, but not mine. I saw a guy shoot three of them inside of 10 minutes. I can't see how you could possibly shoot the electronics, but maybe I am missing something. If you put the thing 15 feet away from you can you can't help but to shoot the chronograph electronics...................I don't know what to tell you, but the velocity of your loads is the last thing you need to worry about. |
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Need a reliable chronograph at a good price, preferably one available on Amazon so I can get it here by Friday. Help me out GD. http://www.amazon.com/Competition-Electronics-ProChrono-Digital-Chronograph/dp/B0028MTBJ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422487564&sr=8-1&keywords=chronograph That one any good? I've had a ProChrono Digital for several years and it has done everything I've needed. I would buy another. |
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Whatever you do don't buy this fucking piece of shit. This is a tag to see what I should replace mine with. ETA: Why I hate it, lighting has to be perfect for it to read, which by the way is not full sun, but a slight tinge of overcast between 2:42 and 5:28 PM on June 11th but not during a leap year. When you do have good light, it reads at best 2 out of 3 shots. When you trickle charge within .1 grains, with bullets selected by weight within .1 grains, loaded in fire formed neck sized cases, it will give you 200 FPS variance between your loads If you can't trust your chronograph you're better off without one. I wish I had shot mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Chrony-7000099-F1-Chronograph/dp/B001R6B06E/ref=sr_1_2?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1422488324&sr=1-2&keywords=chrony&pebp=1422488327662&peasin=B001R6B06E I have tested my Chrony side by side with an Oehler 35 and both instruments measured identical velocities within the error caused by putting them in line. I recommend the lowest cost single channel Chrony, notebook, and a pen. |
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Came here to post that.  |
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Whatever you do don't buy this fucking piece of shit. This is a tag to see what I should replace mine with. ETA: Why I hate it, lighting has to be perfect for it to read, which by the way is not full sun, but a slight tinge of overcast between 2:42 and 5:28 PM on June 11th but not during a leap year. When you do have good light, it reads at best 2 out of 3 shots. When you trickle charge within .1 grains, with bullets selected by weight within .1 grains, loaded in fire formed neck sized cases, it will give you 200 FPS variance between your loads If you can't trust your chronograph you're better off without one. I wish I had shot mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Chrony-7000099-F1-Chronograph/dp/B001R6B06E/ref=sr_1_2?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1422488324&sr=1-2&keywords=chrony&pebp=1422488327662&peasin=B001R6B06E Sorry to hear it. Mine has been excellent. The only time it has ever gotten flaky is when there is direct sunlight on the lenses. Shade the lenses however you have to, and my chrono rarely drops a shot. For $99 it has been a pretty amazing value. Replace the steel sunscreen rods with wooden dowels--that way if you strike the dowels they disintegrate easily, and won't transmit any shock to the chrono itself. IF you do happen to put a bullet through the chrono, Competiton Electronics will rebuild it to good as new for 1/2 of what you paid for it. I found mine floating in my BIL's basement, dead as a doornail. Sent it to them, and they charged me $12 (for a new on/off switch--the original got corroded), and it has worked perfectly since. Turnaround was about a week. I don't expect my chrono figures are exact with a $99 chrono. They say there is 10% margin of error. I daisychained two Competition Electronics units one in front of the other, and they were exactly 75 FPS off of each other--with perfect consistency. My SD and ES rangeswere pretty much dead on--but the High and Low were both exactly 75 FPS off from each other, on all ten strings of fire. Works good enough for my needs. YMMV. ETA: Read the reviews at the link. There are 186 reviews and the Chrono gets 4.5 stars. I'd say the numbers for Midway are probably similar. That ought to tell you something. |
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I have owned one of those "Shooting Chronys" for years. At least 10 years but I bet it's longer than that. I have been completely satisfied with it, and no, I have never shot it. I have probably shot 1000 rounds of ammo through the screens and never came close to shooting the chronograph. I have seen them shot, but not mine. I saw a guy shoot three of them inside of 10 minutes. I can't see how you could possibly shoot the electronics, but maybe I am missing something. If you put the thing 15 feet away from you can you can't help but to shoot the chronograph electronics...................I don't know what to tell you, but the velocity of your loads is the last thing you need to worry about. +1 I have the shooting chrony with the remote screen and it's worked great. |
