Sergeant Stadanko
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Garmin or Athlon. Can't go wrong with either.
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jglenn
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Yes both garmin and the athlon are the way to go. My athlon has been perfect. Only got it because of a crazy reduced priced thru my nephew's FFL. I will say i have nothing but garmin on my boat. Dead reliable over many years and several boats
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I bought an Oehler 35P years ago and it worked just fine. Problem is it takes ten minutes to set it up, so you have to get there before the range opens.
I bought the LabRadar and it worked pretty well until I upgraded the firmware. I got so ****ed at messing up precision reloading investigations that I just went out and bought a Garmin. I had a thousand dollars worth of frustration out of that $500 chrono. Won't reliably link to phone. When it does it won't reliably trigger.
I'd wager if I retrograde the firmware it will work fine.
The Garmin is nice but it does not give you velocities at varying distances. That bewildered me because it can't be that hard to program.
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Somebody here said they get 2.5 hours battery life on the Garmin? I get over ten. You have to turn the RADAR OFF whenever you are not making measurements so it isn't generating RF energy. You can just PAUSE the group and come back to it, as I recall if there is a line break, etc.
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But it most likely changes your pint of impact.
I liked my Lab Radar but I powered it with the USB jack and the jack finally gave up. So I bought a Garmin. The Garmin, paired with its app, is so much easier than the Lab Radar but I could pull Lab Radar data into Chrono Synch. I can still manually enter the data. I haven't needed an external battery for the Garmin. I always have one of these with me though. It runs my barrel cooler and could be used on the Garmin if I needed it.
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..crazy at it sounds, I bought one of the very first 'chronys' on the market, $79 I think, the green one with the cardboard cutouts to shoot through. Had to be decades ago. I've shot thru just about everything else on the market since that purchase. That old primitive chrony certainly doesn't do anywhere near the fancy everything that's on the market today but what it was designed for, velocities, it's nearly identical to those on the market today and the darn thing still works to this day...crazy.
If you own a Chrony and are on the fence on buying a Garmin, remember, you will never shoot a Garmin! I killed two Chrony's real dead with a 300 Ultra mag and 270 Win.
After screwing around with Ohlers, Pact, Millineum, Chrony's, the Garmin is like a winning power ball ticket!
After screwing around with Ohlers, Pact, Millineum, Chrony's, the Garmin is like a winning power ball ticket!
Rifleman97
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So far I've really been enjoying my Athlon. The fact that it's cheaper than the Garmin and comes with a nice carry case seals the deal for me
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Well isnt knowing the velocity what its all about?
By whatever means you find it, shouldn't that be sufficient?
Especially since there are so many things that can affect where your shot lands from day to day?
If your sitting on a stash of components that will last for a lifetime of hunting, and good rifles that will also if just used for that purpose, then whats the need for anything else?
The more important thing is how we go about finding the target, and then making the shot.
Which is something rarely discussed here.
Micky Finn
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100% agreed. I had 2 Caldwell chronys & another one that I don't know who made it, but they were all problematic to say the least. I bought the new Garmin Xero C1 last yr & I'm so glad those other chronys are gone!
If you want a Labradar I have one that I don't use anymore and would sell it pretty inexpensively, $400ish
