Shot timer

Pocket Pro 2 is what I currently use. The PP1 is also good. I prefer it over the Pact Club timer because it’s too easy to hold the Pact in a way that muffles the microphone. But any of those 3 are sort of the “standard” timers that USPSA clubs use, and for good reason. They work very well. Any of them will serve pretty much any shooter’s needs.

I prefer the Pact, clip it on the belt, random start. Big button I don’t have to look to find. Everything I want to know is on the screen as I glance down.

CED 7000 is very compact and capable. Been using mine for training and competition for nearly 10 years now.

I don't know about the others but with the PACT it shows both first and last shot times on same screen. (Unless you have it in PAR mode.). For practicing plates, just one glance tells me all I need to know without pressing any buttons.

I bought the CED 7000 for its memory.
Shoot a drill up to ten times and review your times.
Small and fiddly, though.

I like the memory capability but I got rid of my 7000. The buzzer is right in the frequency of my tinnitus, being the largest negative. I also didn’t like the fact that I had to lift my polarized glasses to read the display. The last straw was the battery, if it’s dead, it’s dead. You can’t pop in a new 9v and go, it must be recharged.

I like the 8000 though, the big board display is nice running racks and such too. It also has ports so you can activate things at the start signal but I haven’t used that feature in awhile.



The R-U-Ready timer is one I seldom use but the absolute best for catching suppressed stuff and ranges that have bad echos.



As above the last model Pact is my go to shot count, first shot, last split and total time without hitting an extra button. The first gen wasn’t very loud but the current ones are so loud I stick a foam ear plug in the hole when I am part time practicing (no live ammo) in the house.

Another PACT user here, it's big, simple and LOUD!

jmorris said:

I prefer the Pact, clip it on the belt, random start. Big button I don’t have to look to find. Everything I want to know is on the screen as I glance down.

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I'll second this. Everything here is spot on. I really like mine.

Pact!!!

Has anyone used an app on their phone for this? If so, which one? Would you recommend it?

The general consensus is that phone apps for shot timing aren't good. They don't seem to be super reliable in terms of catching every shot and not considering non-shots to be events. Worse, IMO, touch screens are a bad combo with dirty hands and no-look operations. Most people's phones don't have big clips on them.

I occasionally use one for dry-fire in my basement simply because I already have the phone in my pocket and don't have to switch modes on my real shot timer. But even for that, if I'm doing a "real" dryfire session, it's worth digging the real shot timer out of my bag and changing the start setting and putting on the par time, just because a real shot timer is better than a phone app even when it comes to just generating par time tones after a delayed random start.

Also, since this thread is now a little old, I would add that I have been very impressed by a friend's AMG Lab commander shot timer. They're about 50% pricier than my go-to pocket pro, but next time I buy a shot timer, I'm pretty sure it will be one of the AMG things. Bluetoothing all the times (all the splits for every shot in a stage) to the practiscore tablet is an amazing feature.

I really like my Shotmax.



https://www.doublealpha.biz/us/shotmaxx-2

I've been using a pocket pro for a few years.

It tells me times/spits. I thought it was reasonably priced.
I don't think it records multiple shot strings, though. I had to write my times down for 'comparison' vids.

But works for me:



I have an app for the phone, too, but I don't use it much, if at all.