Garmin Chronograph

[Tanners Owner]

Thought I’d put this here.

I recently acquired a Garmin Chronograph and am quite impressed. 

    https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/771164

While it’s expensive, I was able to leverage my military discount, cabelas card discount, and cabelas bucks and got it for less than 1/2 of the sticker price.

It took less than a minute to set up and use the first time.  Significantly easier to use than my older Caldwell .  Screen navigation is intuitive and simple.  Provides average FPS and standard deviation.  It’s also small- about 2 cigarette boxes back to back.  Comes with a small tripod.  It’s also not light sensitive.

I have yet to download their app which reportedly has additional features, but at this point I’m very happy with it for my pistol reloads

[Philipl]

I have been very impressed with mine

[Wobbly]

Thanks for posting about this.

[double-d]

Nice

[Tanners Owner]

Realized I forgot to mention it’s power source.  Works from an internal batter that charges using a USB cable.  In my short session, about 6 separate strings, between 4 & 11 shots each, the battery was down to 97%.  This is in 20+/- degrees.

Very pleased with this, especially as I have an variety of bullets & powders ( bought when available during the powder/ ammo shortages) and I change my loads as needed to support myICORE, IDPA and USPSA games.

[Togmaster]

Eventually I want to get on of these.  Only thing holding me back is the price.

[m1a_scoutguy]

Outstanding piece of gear! I have had mine for a few months and love it. A shooting buddy had one with him one-time last summer, he showed me how it worked and I did a few shots with it, and I was like wow. Came home and bought one that night, LOL I didn't get your discount Tanner but got mine @ GovX and paid $591.00 shipped,I felt decent about that price at the time, sounds like you scored big, cool.

[tdogg]

Since the Garmin came out the first gen Lab Radar units have been popping up in the used market for cheap.  I just picked up the first gen Lab Radar and it's not quite the step up you made with the garmin but it was close as my previous chrono was the calwell g1.  It's nice not to have to stand in front of the rifle and line up the caldwell plus there is nothing to shoot downrange.  I did setup both and they were within ~5ft/sec of each other on average. 

Congrats on the Garmin, it is supposedly much easier to get setup and aligned.

Cheers,
Toby

[SoCal]

I have a LabRadar unit and what I like is that it works in an indoor range.  I have read that the Garmin does as well   No need to cross the firing line to set up, or adjust.

[PA USPSA]

My wife gave me a Garmin chronograph for Christmas.  I haven't tried it yet, but it should work at the indoor range we go to.  Looking forward to trying it out.

[Tanners Owner]

My wife gave me a Garmin chronograph for Christmas.  I haven't tried it yet, but it should work at the indoor range we go to.  Looking forward to trying it out.

Congrats

[baldrage]

I have a LabRadar unit and what I like is that it works in an indoor range.  I have read that the Garmin does as well   No need to cross the firing line to set up, or adjust.

Can confirm.  I have the Garmin and have used it several times at an indoor range with no issues.

Expensive, but great piece of kit.

[PA USPSA]

I used my Garmin Xero C1 Pro at an indoor 20 yard range and it worked great.

[Bret]

I recently purchased one.  It's a quantum leap in chronographs and I can see it pretty much running all the other options out of business.  The size makes it so easy to take anywhere and the software is easy to use.  I do wish that you could add custom data fields.  While out with it last weekend, I did have an issue when shooting 7.62x39.  It only recorded about half of the shots.  No, I wasn't shooting too fast.  Towards the end of my shooting a notice popped up on the screen saying that there was electronic interference.  I was out on my property, so there's no way that was the case unless someone was zapping me from a satellite.  There were no issues when I was shooting 9mm though.