Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Canada Have you ever shot your chronograph?

I did, five or six years ago. A perfect 'through the heart' shot. If you look at the faceplate, you'll see the hole above the word 'Chrony'. It was dead and it didn't even fall over. The bullet took both photo sensors out. I got a replacement housing and sensors from Mississauga, ON.



Has this ever happened to you?

My first reaction was I couldn't figure out how to load it into the chamber - but seeing your picture I now seem somber.

I've got a 35p, but haven't hit the screens yet.

I'll add to the first post to make it easier to spot the hole.

I think your shooting low. :-). I've never used one myself.

I did.

I don't recall the brand but it was a pos. Who knew that a .35 Whelen was capable of 3500 fps - twice - in a row. And lots of error messages.

Numerous times, when it was acting up, I would have the cross-hairs on it. But I couldn't do the deed.

So one day I was shooting through it with a bore-sighted .30-06. At the shot during recoil I saw the tri-pod legs flip up in the scope.

I had hit the face of the thing and got a nice through and through. It was dead when it hit the ground.

The sub-conscious is a powerful thing.

I was elated.

So, any good recipes for them? Do they taste like chicken?

Yea, with a muzzleloader. You have to have the chrono either in "tight" before sabot seperation or far enough away that there is complete seperation with the sabot veering off and not crossing the screens.

I was guessing and not well about fifteen years ago; had the chrony at about 15 feet with the sabot taking out the front of the chrony.

Chrony makes, or did, a clear, thick plexi-glass covering that hangs over the front face of the Chrony to cut down on sabot penetration.

I shot the skyscreen arm on my PACT... They make a replacement pack of 4 for $15. Apparently i am not the first to do it...

Steve;
Thanks for the fun reading Steve, I hope this finds you well and you're staying warm enough this weekend.

I've got one of the first Chrony models to become available in the Okanagan - a gift from my wonderful wife actually. In retrospect it was a real sharp dose of reality for me - as I had so many wonderful theories and firm beliefs about muzzle velocity until the "truth teller" was put in front of the barrels.

Anyway Steve, they have the paper holder for the white plastic light diffuser panels and one fine day I most certainly did manage to put a home cast 158gr Semi Wadcutter into one of those.

The paper holders are so chewed up that I've taped them back together several times now.

Oh, something came out and bit the readout screen once too enough to put a small hole in it, but it still works. I've put a �" chunk of Lexan in front of it now to at least slow down whatever small chunks might spew forth - but have no illusion that it will stop a 200gr. Partition out of a .308 Norma or something similar.

Thanks for the chuckle tonight on this thread Steve and all the best to you this year.

Regards,
Dwayne

They're getting fancy with the chronographs now. One newly released model does away with the problem of wads, plugs or gas checks hitting anything. It attaches directly to the barrel.



http://www.magnetospeed.com

I don't know how good it is, but it may eliminate many of the problems associated with chrono setup and use.

That looks pretty interesting. I find setting up the Chrony to keep from killing it a drag.

I've mentioned this before, but I think it bears repeating. We had finished chronographing rifle loads and decided to make sure that the slug guns were sighted in.
We set the chronograph off to the side at its normal 15 feet from the muzzle. At one shot, the outfit flipped over. One of the sabots had hit a rod with enough force to flip the unit and tripod over and bend the rod.
This certainly illustrates the need to not shoot past someone who is to your front and side.

My wife creased the housing for the sensor on shot #1, and it didn't ruin the chronograph, and I even told her to hold a few inches higher. The second shot finished it. It is an old chronograph, but I was able to get a new housing. I should have bought the three they had left in stock.

Shot my chronograph? Is the Pope Catholic? Do chickens have lips?

I can't fault the penetration of the 9.3x57 round, though.



However, I refuse to divulge the intimate details of how it met its demise. A fella has to have some secrets.

:)Stuart

Nicked the rod,luckly they are 5/32,so stainless steel welding rod worked fine when cleaned. I had the company order another box just in case.The brass couplings are standard tubing too.

Yea, if you are going to kill your Chrony, may as well have complete penetration with an exit.

True. It bled out pretty quickly- there were digits everywhere. I'd have no fear going up against any chronograph on earth, even the mightiest Oehler, with the 9.3x57.

Stuart

Not yet but I suspect it is only a matter of time.

I shot the metal shade support once on my Chrony. Didn't even hit the Chrony itself, but it still didn't work afterwards.

I've never done that. I set mine up at 12' and looking through it with the scope, the target set's several inches above it. I know a lot of guy's have shot their's but I can't figure out how they do it. That makes an awfully big target to shoot through at 12'!