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Do I really need a Labradar?
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2753957" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>It comes down to the difference between needs and wants. Do you need a labradar? Nope? I'm not much into chronographs or magneto speeds. I have a chronograph but it's a pain in the butt to set up and only tells me the speed of the bullet at the muzzle not what it's doing down range, which is what I want to know. It is nice, a guy out at the range had one and we checked the velocity of my 30-06, came out to 2930 which is what the loading data said it should be. There was also a variance of plus or minus 20 FPS. Is this significant? probably but the rifle shoots sub MOA so does it really matter? The labradar also has limitations in that it only records data out to 100 yards. Coming back to needs and wants. Would I buy a labradar, maybe...if I somehow won the lottery and had money to burn. Do I want one, would be nice. Do I need, which is the important part of this dissertation, a labradar? No I don't need one. $600 + buys a lot of primers, powders and bullets which I do need in order to continue to hunt and shoot. I enjoy shooting little tiny holes into little tiny groups. It brings me pleasure but I don't see a labradar possibly causing frustration as I search for the solution to varying muzzle speeds. So no, I will not buy a labradar which would probably take a lot of the joy of shooting and turn it into frustration. Besides that like the chronograph, how much will you use it after the novelty wears off? On the other hand if it could track that bullet to 600 or 1000 yards now you would have my attention and YES I would not only want one but need one. I would love to watch what different bullets and loads do as they fly through the air with the greatest of ease, or maybe not so much ease. Might tell me why that particular bullet did not mushroom after it hit that Elk I shot way out there at 900 yards, because it had dropped down to 1400 FPS instead of 1700 FPS. All nice to know, but am I going to haul a labradar with me on a hunt? Things to think about but in the end I think I would rather buy primers, powder and bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2753957, member: 118816"] It comes down to the difference between needs and wants. Do you need a labradar? Nope? I'm not much into chronographs or magneto speeds. I have a chronograph but it's a pain in the butt to set up and only tells me the speed of the bullet at the muzzle not what it's doing down range, which is what I want to know. It is nice, a guy out at the range had one and we checked the velocity of my 30-06, came out to 2930 which is what the loading data said it should be. There was also a variance of plus or minus 20 FPS. Is this significant? probably but the rifle shoots sub MOA so does it really matter? The labradar also has limitations in that it only records data out to 100 yards. Coming back to needs and wants. Would I buy a labradar, maybe...if I somehow won the lottery and had money to burn. Do I want one, would be nice. Do I need, which is the important part of this dissertation, a labradar? No I don't need one. $600 + buys a lot of primers, powders and bullets which I do need in order to continue to hunt and shoot. I enjoy shooting little tiny holes into little tiny groups. It brings me pleasure but I don't see a labradar possibly causing frustration as I search for the solution to varying muzzle speeds. So no, I will not buy a labradar which would probably take a lot of the joy of shooting and turn it into frustration. Besides that like the chronograph, how much will you use it after the novelty wears off? On the other hand if it could track that bullet to 600 or 1000 yards now you would have my attention and YES I would not only want one but need one. I would love to watch what different bullets and loads do as they fly through the air with the greatest of ease, or maybe not so much ease. Might tell me why that particular bullet did not mushroom after it hit that Elk I shot way out there at 900 yards, because it had dropped down to 1400 FPS instead of 1700 FPS. All nice to know, but am I going to haul a labradar with me on a hunt? Things to think about but in the end I think I would rather buy primers, powder and bullets. [/QUOTE]
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