@@BOB67666ease of use. Plain and simple. It’s small, easily portable, super easy to set up compared to a typical shoot through chrono and it won’t have issues in different lighting. The G2 he shows here has built in lights to alleviate the lighting issues the older style would have(the style he had before with the hoods up top), but you still have portability issues, setup, ect ect. It’s more expensive, but the Garmin is SOOOOOO much better.
And there we go… 8:30 in and he has errors, probably due to the lighting. Now imagine that’s a handload that you just lost the data on instead of just playing around with a bb pistol. I’ve put probably 350-400 rounds down range with my garmin with ZERO errors. My traditional shoot through chronos would NEVER have that type of reliability.
It’s clear. If you want to say you own what you believe everyone wants, buy a Garmin. Just like an expensive scope with German glass, it will make you an instant sharpshooter.
I have 2 deer hunt videos with 22-250 up on the channel. Foe those I actually used Remington V varmint rounds. All I could get at the time. Worked great. Even a buck
That thing is pretty nice!! Bluetooth is pretty neat too! Everyone is mentioning garmin, tell them to get together and buy you one. Pi$$ on $600!!! That’s a lot of money!
I just came back to this video to compare my velocity readings from today to yours, and they were pretty dang close. Why caught my attention was all of the Garmin comments. I made a reference to the brand, but just that it was a consideration but too much money for me. Looks like Garmin paid for a lot of advertising in your comments, though.😅 I have no doubts that it is a better design, but I am perfectly fine with saving the extra money. In fact, I bought my Savage Axis 22-250 and this chronograph for about the same cost as the Garmin is alone.
I’m done messing with that type of chony. A pain in the ass to take and set up at the range. Takes me 5 minutes to get it straight, while the guys with Garmins, just sit down at the bench, and turn it on!! Ordering one Monday!
You are a true male! Reads the manual when it only when it was very very necessary, after a long time trying out for ourselves! I am the same, I think it's because we believe in our fellow humans to make things to be intuitively easy to use. But our engineers are in the opposite, how complicated could we do it and still keep our jobs?
I agree. Manufacturers ought to look for a person who thinks like a shooter or a hunter instead of one who thinks like an engineer. Or, at the very least, a board of non-engineers must approve what the engineer thought was so great - BEFORE the product hits the market.
I just got the premium kit variant today, so it was a little cheaper than yours at $169. Hopefully, it does what I need it to do. Allow me to make some drop charts for my rifles. I really wanted the new Garmin, but for my needs, it was priced higher than I wanted to spend. I also picked up my first 22-250 earlier this week, so I hope to get it out this weekend, too. It is so darned hot that I will be surprised if that happens.
been eyeballing that chronograph to use for my reloads and archery. Need something that’s budget friendly and not $600. Always look forward to your videos!!
the garmin is really the way to go... not nocking that one, which is about half the price ... or maybe 1/3 the price of the garmin but the ease of the garmin is sooooooo nice.
That's so freaking cool im gladyougot it finally. Hey WHO TEE WHO I would to see a video of you comparing shooting watermelon, clay, and 5 gallon water jugs vs 7.5 BRNO vs 7.62x39 vs 5.5.56 I think that the 7.5 will suprises people with its power
Why didn’t you just get the Garmin Xwro C1? That’s a nice little chrome though. It works. lol And with that one, basically being “upside down”, I see it being hit with a projectile that much easier. Did the app close when you turned on your hearing protection? Hm, seems Those velocities on those Remington 22-250’s weren’t as high as stated on the box. Similar to those Hornady 7mm PRC’s. Maybe not by as much but off nonetheless. I’d be curious to see if there would be a difference with the LED’s off and it in the sun? It shouldn’t matter and should be the same, you’d think? lol
I have a Shooting Chrony Gama, a Magnetospeed, and a LabRadar. They all work most of the time. Pros and cons with each. Without an optional extension, the Magnetospeed throws off barrel harmonics, but still can be useful after determining max load to get whatever velocity it is. The new Garmin seems to have the advantage of being far smaller, and easiest setup. However, $600 for it seems quite high and I’d like to see more metal construction as I can see it falling off a shooting bench. The chrono in the video works just fine, but sky screens are fragile with that type and you really have to be sure your muzzle lines up in the safe zone. Many people have accidentally shot their chronos of the sky screen design.
I just bought the Garmin Xero C1 Pro, will be taking it out to the range on Monday, looking forward to it. I had been using a Caldwell Ballistic Precision Chronograph for a few years so this should be a nice upgrade, albeit a very expensive upgrade.
Your Old chrono was suffering and You had to put the poor thing out of it's misery , the Garmin look great but are steep on price , it's just a shame that the FX radar is limited to 1250 fps , as it's meant for Airgun use , but over here in the UK they are under £160 , so how Garmin justify there prices is a mystery to Me . I think that the reason Your new Chrono was playing up with the Colt SAA was due to the .177 pellets being too small to register on the sensors . Look forward to seeing You putting the new chrono through its paces with some of Your hand loads . Catch You next time . Shoot Straight Stay Safe & Stay Well.
I bought a Caldwell chrono several yrs ago super easy to setup and with the app I have all my loads saved in my phone that I sent to my puter to make sure I have them in case this phone goes belly up like the last one. I like how the lights are built in to the one you have.
I bought that about two years ago and it was nice. Had some issues but Caldwell’s sent me a new set of light bars (took 8 months). Only thing I did not like was the app did not let you group sessions together. Just recently I sold it to upgrade to the garmin but I loved it for the price ($180) got it on sale
Can you turn the led’s up when in the shade to get less error readings? Maybe that’s a thing.I’ve been trying to find one of these I like. This one looks good.aww you got the lights on,NM
Hi Adam, here in the Old World the Garmin Xero costs 599 Euro. A lot of money. However, when you tries it there is no way back. It’s a total game changer. You can place in your bench and do your nice three shot tests and have velocities recorded without any disturbance. You would be testing the rifle and the ammunition at the same time. Garmin painful to buy, a joy to use.
Get the Garmin man. Yeah the pruce is shock but it does everything. Even tells you ehats happening eith the bullet down range at whatever yard. And you ain't gonna accidentally shoot it because it never gets old n the way and
I am so glad you are reviewing the G2! I will give you my thought later this week after I go to the range. Man it's HOT.........wOw is 99 and 90% humidity. Thats east coast hOt.
Some Labradar owners complain about the large size, difficult setup, missed readings, and app that has never worked right. Some were happy to sell of their Labradar to help fund their purchase of the Garmin.
I love your channel. One of my favorites. Please just do me a favor. Before I die, I have to here you say “Damn it Bobby” or at least “Propane and propane accessories”
can you chronograph some handgun hunting rounds? id be particularly curious to see some 357mag, specifically underwood 158gr xtp which is rated for 1500fps
I’m looking forward to this video. Opinions are greatly varied when it comes to chronographs. I trust you’ll give us an honest review. Thanks again for the homegrown, down to earth videos, brother! 🫡🇺🇸
Nice video who tee.. those light window chronographs are a chore to setup and most of the time will get you ticked off with errors.. they are a thing of the past now.. radar is the way to go I got FX true ballistic and happy with it 😊
WTW, not telling you what to do, but if your really getting into reloading, get you a record book and keep good records. They will come in handy latter on. I log every reload I do with all the pertinent info. You can go on line a print out the logs and just put them in a folder or ring binder.
If you’re sponsored by Caldwell they make the Caldwell Velociradar Chronograph with Bluetooth. It’s similar to the garmen everyone is mentioning on here, which uses radar.
I have one and love it. I also have a magneto speed v3. I prefer the magneto speed for my rifles but I use the other one for my pistol. I am getting ready to try the garmin doplar radar system.
The affordability of chronographs has no doubt created a new rage of self-proclaimed ammo experts. I have to wonder how many calls the ammo makers get every day from customers complaining the velocities they're getting are off from what's listed on the box. And without independent, industry testing to confirm the accuracy of any of these devices, who's to say which ones are truly the best performers?
Garmin tested their chrono at a commercial ballistics lab in Michigan that has LIDAR equipment that costs 6 figures. The Garmin readings were very close. This was discussed on Hornady YT channel when they had Garmin representatives on the show discussing their chrono.
@@raykettel1837 Making those numbers public would be a big plus, as well as others comparing the performance of other chronographs with what is recognized as the industry standard. Unfortunately, manufacturers tend to shy away from such things in fear it may expose that less expensive products are as good or better as those that costs a lot more. IMO, it's currently a market where shooters are in awe of the technology and wanting to claim they have the "latest and greatest". It's easy to find RU-vid videos were someone is using a chronograph to measure bullet velocities, while making no mention whatsoever of how the information is useful to them. However, I have found quite a few where someone is complaining how the velocity given on the box is not what they measured with their chronograph. And still, there is no mention as to whether or not that's a good thing or a bad thing. Now, for the record, I have a chronograph that I purchased to measure the velocity of a specific factory load that I needed to give to the folks at Leupold in order to make me a customized elevation turret. I might use the Chrono in the future to see which factory loads are most consistent with no real concern for how the numbers given on the box compare with my own findings. However, to be perfectly honest, I suspect that's something that could just as easily be determined by which ones provide the tightest groups.
