What is your budget for a chronograph? Couple hundred bucksTo get better recommendations, can you give us more information? What is your budget for a chronograph? Will you use it for rifle only, or both rifle and pistol? Do you have a private range where you can set it up, or will you use it at a public range? Do you need data storage capability, or are you willing to record your own data? Do you need highly accurate velocity readings for long range shooting, or are you looking for fairly close readings? Do you shoot suppressed/low muzzle blast or with a muzzle brake?
What is your budget for a chronograph? Couple hundred bucks
Will you use it for rifle only, or both rifle and pistol? Rifle only
Do you have a private range where you can set it up, or will you use it at a public range? Public range on military installation
Do you need data storage capability, or are you willing to record your own data? I can record my own, but data storage would be nice.
Do you need highly accurate velocity readings for long range shooting, or are you looking for fairly close readings? Fairly close, for hunting not competition
Do you shoot suppressed/low muzzle blast or with a muzzle brake? Muzzle brake on most
Thanks Sevens. I will take a look.I have owned two different ones, both are quite popular and these days, both are at the low end of the price spectrum. The first one I had was the Chrony Beta Master. Extremely popular in it's heyday, but this company is now dead, gone & buried. Good riddance.
I am now using the ProChrono DLX and every single thing about the Chrony that I did not like has been rectified with this unit. I actually do not loathe using it as I did with the Chrony.
My recommendation is not that this unit is the finest thing out there, but I will say that as you are new to the handloading and chrono game, I think this unit exactly is a fantastic place to start and a great value for what it does and what you get.
If you are a smartphone user, this sucker communicates directly and immediately via Bluetooth and instantly stores what you're doing.
Great! Thank you. Not having to set up a chrono on the firing line is a plus. After looking, this is the one I will go with. Much appreciated.I'd suggest that you consider the Magnetospeed Sporter, it meets your budget, works with muzzle brakes, and gives accurate readings. Best of all, since it attaches to the rifle barrel it is much easier to use at a public range compared to typical optical chronographs that require set up in front of the firing line.
Bryan Litz at the Applied Ballistics laboratory reviewed several chronographs in the book "Modern Advancements In Long Range Shooting Volume I". The Magnetospeed tested very well, and he did not notice a significant point of impact change with the Magnetospeed installed on the rifle. The conventional chronograph that tested well was the CED M2, which also meets your budget but requires set up in front of the shooting line.
I certainly will, Waiting on my small rifle primers and still need to get a loading bench and put my workstation together.We're glad that we could be of help. If you can, let us know how the Magnetospeed works for you.
I have one of these and given your requirements it will work well. It does alter POI a bit, but since I only use it to find MV that doesn’t matter to me. It generally doesn’t affect group size, although I have had groups actually tighten up a bit sometimes.Great! Thank you. Not having to set up a chrono on the firing line is a plus. After looking, this is the one I will go with. Much appreciated.
cdoc42 said:The first sky screen is to be placed 70 inches from the muzzle