How many here have killed a chronograph?

[792mauser]

Yup. Put a 30-06 square through it.

And that's how I ended up with a magneto-speed

 

[rfwobbly]

Man, last year my buddy shot mine. I replaced it, then proceeded to shoot my new one. Actually, I shot the shade, but it flipped the chrony off the table it was sitting on and smashed the screen on a rock. Replaced it again.

Use wooden chopsticks and this won't happen.

 

[gifbohane]

Use wooden chopsticks and this won't happen.

I used the slim wood as supports and managed to shoot them also.....unintentionally.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Use wooden chopsticks and this won't happen.

But NOT the bamboo chopsticks. They’re just as tough as hard plastic.

 

[barnfrog]

Haven't yet. Hoping to this season. Need to find out what the bag limit is here in NY.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Haven't yet. Hoping to this season. Need to find out what the bag limit is here in NY.

I’m pretty sure it’s unlimited. They’re considered a nuisance pest.

 

[joneb]

Guilty The murder weapon was a Ruger Redhawk chambered in .44 Rem mag.

 

[Bcwitt]

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Now that will look great in the trophy room.

 

[desmobob]

I bought one of the red, folding Chrony units when they first came out. I think they were about a hundred bucks. I could never get it to work properly with any firearms, but, if I put it under an incandescent light in the basement, it would work with my bow.

I messed with different arrows and heads with my compound bows, then switched to a long recurve. When I released the first arrow, the top of the bow hit a floor joist and redirected the arrow directly into the Chrony. I was almost relieved to have killed that darn thing. I bought a Pact Model 1 to replace it. It's still going strong but does have some chipped plastic from a very close call...

 

[GSPKurt]

I regularly assassinate my sky shade, but not the chronograph itself...YET.

 

[Rodfac]

Yep...a PACT skyscreen...replaced it and have been REAL CAREFUL since. Rod

 

[hdwhit]

Still using my 1992-vintage chronograph. It still works.

Shot out the rods holding the skyskreens before as well as damaging a hinge with a shot across wildly mis-adjusted sights, but I have yet to kill a chronograph.

 

[FROGO207]

I was willing to leave well enough alone and stay silent.........but.
How many others have shot multiple cronys? Its worse than Fritos around here LOL.

 

[dcarr]

I have NOT shot multiple cronys but only because I did not buy a replacement for the first one. If you don't understand yourself by my age you never will.

 

[Highland Lofts]

This is my friend crony.





 

[Chief TC]

I have not but whenever I use it, I wonder if this will be the time.

 

[Chief TC]

Not me. When In question I use a laser bore sighter to check bullet path.

And then you got the guys that forget to take out the boresighter.

 

[.308 Norma]

"How many here have killed a chronograph?"

I’ve never “killed” a chronograph, but I once drove down to the county gravel pit (our “range”) to do some shooting, and discovered I’d left my chronograph on from the last time I used it. So, its 9V battery was “dead.”
It wasn’t too much of a problem though as the gravel pit is only about 2 miles south of the house. So, I just used that other electronic wonder (the cell phone in my pocket) to call my wife and ask her to bring me a new 9V battery. Ever since then, I’ve kept a spare 9V battery taped to the bottom, inside the chronograph. Of course, now that I have a spare battery taped inside it, I’ve never again forgotten to turn the chronograph off when I’m through using it.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

And then you got the guys that forget to take out the boresighter.

I haven’t done that yet but I know a gunsmith who did.

 

[GaryL]

I hit one of the steel pieces holding the screens up. I got lucky it just pulled it out and bent it. No damage to the chronograph, I am switching over to wood rods so if it happens again it for sure won’t break the plastic around the mounting hole.

I've neatly folded a couple almost literally in half (not quite half, but pretty much parallel and touching). Kind of cool to look at, but a PITA when you really wanted to chrono some loads. Took the advice of this site and bought some dowel rods, but keep forgetting to cut them to length and throw into the box.

 

[sparkyv]

You Magnetospeed guys, don't get too cocky. The bayonet can be shot...don't ask me how I know!

"So far, so good" with my Magneto Speed.

that’s what I’m rocking!!!

it will detect the other shooters shots.

Magneto Speed is a good option. Attaches to the barrel

I didn’t see the actual event, but saw the carnage after a guy shot his Magnetospeed at the check-in for a PRS match this season.

Yup. Put a 30-06 square through it.

And that's how I ended up with a magneto-speed

 

[Varminterror]

The magneto speed has its own shortcomings.
It changes barrel harmonics so you cannot use it during ammo testing because the harmonics will change when you remove it.

I’ve had relatively repeatable POI shift, but I have never had any influence on group size or node determination. I’ve shot the same ladders over the Magnetospeed and LabRadar, and with the Magnetospeed mounted on a contactless spigot mount instead of mounted on the barrel, AND have shot the same group sizes with and without the bayonet attached. Theory promotes that it could influence barrel harmonics sufficiently to influence group sizes or influence ladders to promote false node shifts, but practice in dozens of tests, even over more than a dozen barrels of my own, proves that the theory doesn’t pan out in practice. Whether I’m shooting Auddette Ladders, Newberry OCW’s, or Satterlee curves, bayonet on the barrel, spigot mounted, shoot through chrony, and LabRadar all promote the same node results and yield the same group sizes. I just need 5-10 more shots to confirm zero, since the bayonet does shift POI.

 

[Mark_Mark]

You Magnetospeed guys, don't get too cocky. The bayonet can be shot...don't ask me how I know!

everything has it’s short comings, just presses snd tools, get some!

 

[Sgt_Mike1]

Guilty
30-06 doesn't play around

 

[JmacD]

I never have. But I was told a story about a few friends that were trying to get a reading on some slugs in the 12 gauge. One of them accidentally grab some buckshot/double 00… my understanding was that plastic went everywhere, and it was quite a mess.