Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Too many Chrono killers around here...

I've relied on using the range chronographs since, well, forever.

Yea, once in a while one of them would get creamed, but since the range owned 2, there was always the other to use while the damaged one was getting replaced.

But this time, and in the span of 1 week, both Chrono's have been shot. Gotta say, we must have the deadliest chrono killers in the area.

The best as I can figure, the damage occurs during public range sessions (which I'm never there) when the place is busy and people are feeling hurried.

So, I decided enough with that, and dropped the $$ and ordered up my own chrono.


And I'm not letting anyone else borrow it. Too many good shots around here...

I killed one of my own several years ago……with a 44 magnum handgun. I’m a lot more careful nowadays.

AR's I believe a responsible for killing quite a few chronos . Most because many times people are unaware of just how much higher their sites are than the bore.
Killed my first one with a 38-55 that I had just installed a new flip up Tang site kind of the same deal I really didn't realize how much higher my site plane was in the barrel rip the top right out of the crony

I've only ever shot one. It was my first. A Shooting Chrony. It took the sensors out.

I did it in with a single shot NEF 30-30 many years ago.

I've mentioned more than once to people - as a last step, pull the bolt and look down the barrel (you know, the non-pointy end). If you see the expensive part, then you 'aint ready to fire...

Planning to shoot mine once Labradar's become more available.

I haven't shot mine, yet, but that is probably due to my wanting to replace it. It might help that I lost the original diffuser and supports so my replacement struts are much higher than the original. I put the target in the upper portion of the

I've seen a few shot and have been careful with my setting up ever since the first one I saw shot. I haven't had someone shoot over mine though I had a guy insist he be allowed to use mine a couple weeks back. He wasn't happy I told him he would have to wait until I was done. I wrote a thread on it here shortly after it happened.

Like others, I'm looking at a Labradar too. They are spendy but I would have it half paid for if I wouldn't have bought a chronograph and later a Magnetospeed.

I killed one but not by shooting it, but dropped it coming back from the range. It flew into a lot of pieces and never worked right after that

This Shooters Chrony is perhaps the biggest POS ever created...............don't buy one or ever believe the data it puts out (my ex-wife in a little red box) !!!!!!!!!!!!

Buy an Oehler 35p and be done

I bought a used one and it has been shot a few times. It uses cardboard inserts and you shoot through a window a few inches above the top of the chronograph. It does not have the big wide ears to shoot through. I've never shot it, but can see how someone could. Mine is a pro tach and only reads velocity. It works great for that, but does not give SD and ES. Maybe I should shoot it? Nah, I know my handloads have pretty low SD's and ES's.

My best friend is a great shotgun shooter but pistols are a different story. He’s adequate and he’s certainly quite capable at self defense ranges but he’s usually just sending rounds down range for fun. He wanted to clock a 10mm he had just bought so I let him shoot over my chronograph once….that’s all it took for him to nail the 1/8” skyscreen. 😂

That reminds me that I need to hit submit on my Midway order with the new screen. 😉

If you log your velocity readings you can pretty quickly see your SD’s and ES…..I like the simplicity of the “older” styles like yours and my ProChrony but my technological expertise ceases to be so simplicity is my crutch. 😁

Calculating SD and ES isn't too difficult if you record velocity readings.

Never killed one....yet. But if you don't mind a little one upsmanship...I did crease the hood on my old Dodge PU.

back when we had Mini 14s as patrol rifles. I did that at a training. hopped out leaned over the hood and fired 5 quick rounds right through the hood of a new patrol car

This was 30 years ago. I don’t use old fashioned carbureted chronos anymore.

I’ve had the same Pact for nearly thirty years. Still going strong. If I set it up to close, the muzzle blast will cause the sky screens to come apart. Every time that happens, I think oh [bleep] I shot it. Not yet.

Chrony is no longer in business.

I was looking for some new diffusers for my old Chrony F1. The 3-piece snap together ones, that eventually fell apart. Discovered they were out of business. I also have a Magnetospeed, and a Pro Chrono, but was wanting to keep the Chrony F1 in service. Mine is one of the green body models, I don't know if they are different from the red one, but mine always worked just fine.

Had one back in the 90's that said my rifles and pistols had MV's of ERR on about 3/4 of all shots no matter what kind of light conditions were prevalent.

One day it accidentally got shot by six rounds from a .41 Magnum Blackhawk. By some fantastic coincidence the pieces all fell into the same pile on the ground where they were accidentally shot six more times.


Bought an Oehler 35 after that. There are easier ones to set up nowadays but since that Oehler hardly ever misses a reading and I can rely on its accuracy it's managed to avoid accidental death and dismemberment for close to 25 years now.

Yup. I ordered up a MagnetoSpeed...