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all this new tech is fascinating, but I am comfortable with, and will continue to use my old Chrony Beta. For my limited needs, it still provides the answers.

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Rick- any chance you were able to use your pull and get one to use and report on here? Might could be good for their sales.

Really liking my recently acquired Garmin Xero. Really easy to set up and use. Improvements, reduced cost and better tech likely on the way however for my needs I’m impressed.

Laughing. It’s a big deal for me.

I was at the Labradar booth today and very much liked what I saw with the new Labradar LX.

I was told that this unit was under development for 18 months, that they planned to unveil it at this SHOT Show, and the announcement of Garmin Xero didn’t cause them to change their plans. “It would have been impossible to develop this unit in the time since the Garmin came out. We have been at this a year to 18 months, because we wanted to get everything right.”

They had an ace up their sleeve the whole time!

My questions:

#1. CAN I ADD TO A PREVIOUS STRING, DAMMIT?

Answer: “Of course. Why are you getting so excited?” Gent shows me how you simply select the string you are returning to, hit the arm button, and voila! (Was that so goshdarned hard? )

So let me get this straight: I can go back to any series, at any time, and add to it, and it will continue compiling the data?

“Yup.”

Part of me thinks Garmin will fix their Xero to allow for this fundamental functionality PDQ, and part of me wonders why the heck it’s not already in there. Either way, score. Advantage Labradar. Now I am interested.

2. Can it detect rimfire, pellets, arrows, shotguns, .17 and .22 cal? All yes, except, maybe, shotgun. Unclear on that, but promised it could be part of an update. All the others, definite yes.

3. What’s with the sight on top. Is the field narrow?

No, we used to have a 4 by 4 degree beam opening, now we have a 32 x 16 beam opening, so you don’t need the sight at all. We just put it there because some customers are used to it and like to have it. Just put the unit on the table, point it downrange shoot within 12-18 inches, and it will pick up all your shots.

The old units narrow beam allowed for velocity readings out to 100 yards or maybe a bit more with some calibers. That can still be useful for rimfire and air rifle applications. This new unit’s more forgiving wider beam allows for readings out to 25 yards, and also, allows users to pick more than one point (multiple readings) x say at muzzle and at. 25 yards.

4. Aluminum case (not plastic), made in North America (not Taiwan), data solely yours and is never accessed by 3rd parties (unlike Garmin), internal battery but also runs on external battery if desired, and will operate while charging, USB-C port for charge and also for data transfer, new improved microphone is super sensitive and is triggered by pellet guns, suppressors, etc.





They had me at “previous string ...”

I’m on the short list I hope. They said they weren’t quite available yet.