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<blockquote data-quote="30calyooper" data-source="post: 1613429" data-attributes="member: 107258"><p>Depends how much you want to spend! To be honest the Caldwell for under a hundred bucks does what most handloaders need it to do, and it seems to work in fairly diverse conditions like sunny vs. cloudy, even when sun is getting low on the horizon, etc. I have not properly checked its accuracy against more expensive option(s) but the results seem to hold true when using them to plot trajectories with a ballistic calculator such as Nikon's SPOT-ON...Like any chrono the key is to set it up properly, to get a good read on the projectile passing through the zone. </p><p></p><p>BTW, agree with the comments on getting a Chrony to work in a clean and consistent manner. When mine started showing a spread of +/- 200 for a pet load, I never did get it back to being reliable. Cleared everything and still, fubar...ran the same load/launcher combo through the Caldwell, got within a couple of feet per second of what I had recorded at an earlier session from a friend's very pricey Oehler. 'Nuff said, sticking with the Caldwell. And oh yeah as someone mentioned earlier - their customer support is top notch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="30calyooper, post: 1613429, member: 107258"] Depends how much you want to spend! To be honest the Caldwell for under a hundred bucks does what most handloaders need it to do, and it seems to work in fairly diverse conditions like sunny vs. cloudy, even when sun is getting low on the horizon, etc. I have not properly checked its accuracy against more expensive option(s) but the results seem to hold true when using them to plot trajectories with a ballistic calculator such as Nikon's SPOT-ON...Like any chrono the key is to set it up properly, to get a good read on the projectile passing through the zone. BTW, agree with the comments on getting a Chrony to work in a clean and consistent manner. When mine started showing a spread of +/- 200 for a pet load, I never did get it back to being reliable. Cleared everything and still, fubar...ran the same load/launcher combo through the Caldwell, got within a couple of feet per second of what I had recorded at an earlier session from a friend's very pricey Oehler. 'Nuff said, sticking with the Caldwell. And oh yeah as someone mentioned earlier - their customer support is top notch. [/QUOTE]
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