Chronograph recommendations?

There are quite a few threads and posts about the new Garmin. One of my "vintage" items is a chronograph. It's simply an old style Chrony that neither I nor anyone else has managed to shoot yet. I'm fixing to get the new Garmin. I've seen them in use and the comments here have done nothing other than to confirm the choice. There is another one that they seem to be waiting on to come out. You may want to check those threads out.

I’m sold on the Garmin also. Maybe since it’s new to market prices will actually come down in a couple of years?

Captain*kirk said:

I have checked them, and spent the evening last night watching chrony reviews and I concur...I'm sold on the Garmin. Now just need to figure out where to get the funds.

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I too was scratching my head on where to get the funds. I went to the reloading room for a look and decided to sell a few items that had been sitting around.

Hartkopf said:

I’m sold on the Garmin also. Maybe since it’s new to market prices will actually come down in a couple of years?

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Competition does that. When the Garmin came out the LR price dropped...

When my daughter was 5 or 6, I took her to Cracker Barrel for dinner. While waiting for a table, she did some shopping and came back with an arm load of gifts for her mother and sister. She said if I buy all this, it's going to going to take all my money. I said: you have some decisions to make. She left but came back with the same arm load of goods and stated: I can always make more money. Where the kid was going to get more money remains a mystery. My new Garmin should be waiting for me when I get home.

I have a Garmin and it does what I want done.
But if I were just now shopping, I would wait until I saw what the LX was like.

Either LR or Garmin is a wise choice. Expensive but well worth it. Especially, double especially, if you shoot at an indoor range or a public, multishooter outdoor one.

I don't think there is any reason to look at lab radar twice with the garmin in the room.

Since I have the Garmin, the Labradar LX will just be something interesting to read about, but it will be a competitor in the market for those who haven't bought yet..

Jim Watson said:

Since I have the Garmin, the Labradar LX will just be something interesting to read about, but it will be a competitor in the market for those who haven't bought yet..

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Not if they do any research on just how that company has been in the past.

Remington1911 said:

Not if they do any research on just how that company has been in the past.

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Just how has that company (implied LabRadar) been in the past?

alfsauve said:

Either LR or Garmin is a wise choice. Expensive but well worth it. Especially, double especially, if you shoot at an indoor range or a public, multishooter outdoor one.

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Not having to go down range, being able to use in indoor ranges, and the ease of setup made the Garmin a good choice for me...

The LX appears to be scheduled for a June release. Midway and Brownells list them but unavailable. Both are the same price and seem to have similar features. The literature indicates that the LX can give you downrange information (30 yards) which is apparently sufficient for calculations of power factors, and it also calculates BCs. I have zero experience with Labradar but have a lot with Garmin in other products. I've had great experiences with Garmin products and its customer service. I haven't heard a single bad thing about Labradar. Labradar's product and customer service may or may not be the same as Garmin. I guess it comes down to your application and preferences. The differences in the features of the two will be important to some and unimportant to others. Last Saturday at the range I sat with a benchrest shooter/friend while he shot using a Garmin. He graciously spent 30 minutes with me showing me the Garmin and explaining its applications. He coupled his with a tablet. I was impressed, but that may just be because my chrony is over 20 years old. Seemed like magic to me.

I have a Prochrono similar to armoredman's.
It is an early model with wired remote control, which did not hold up even after factory repair. My FLG/ham radio operator said the connections were just cheap and nasty. It worked ok as a walk-down unit, if the range was unattended and I did not have a lot of loads to shoot.
Maybe the bluetooth version is more durable. It is a lot less expensive than a Garmin if you can walk out to set it up and then to take it down.

^ those also nest well in 3's, how they have used them at nationals in the past that way.

I keep one down at the farm myself. It and the Shotmarker are very close.

armoredman said:

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That's what I had, that works and is cost effective. If my closest range was not a live all the time firing line, I'd probably still be using.