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Amazon clamp on. Recently tried getting my old shooting chrony working inside. Bought a set of led lights and taped on several different ways.
No luck, figured it wasn’t bright enough and ordered some multi light panels that I have to wire up. Should have just ordered the factory light kit for
$60. In the mean time I ordered and received this very inexpensive clamp on.

It works, and seems to work well.
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I also tried putting aftermarket lights on my chrono. It has to do with color temperature I bet. I ended up buying the light kit for my chrono and it works every time now. Then they came out with some pretty cool radars and I bought a Garmin and sold my ProChrono.
I also have one of those Chinese chronos, and it works just fine. I only wish it had a bit larger shooting window. It's pretty hard to shoot a scoped rifle through it. I have to put the thing on a tripod and my gun on the bench and carefully line it up, as mine is not the clamp on type. I don't want anything on my barrel when chrono'ing, as I like to shoot groups at the same time. The ProChrono had a large enough window you could shoot several grousp without moving it.
The Garmin is fantastic and you can literally shoot almost any place in front of you and it reads just fine, BIG improvement.
 
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blackdog899 said:
Amazon clamp on. Recently tried getting my old shooting chrony working inside. Bought a set of led lights and taped on several different ways.
No luck, figured it wasn’t bright enough and ordered some multi light panels that I have to wire up. Should have just ordered the factory light kit for
$60. In the mean time I ordered and received this very inexpensive clamp on.

It works, and seems to work well.View attachment 516884
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Cheap Amazon led’s and a USB battery pack, very rarely misses a shot.
 
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Rickstwowheels said:
I have been trying to decide between this and the Nate Chrony. I would have ordered the Nate yesterday if Pyramid's free shipping threshold had been $150 and not $300. I appreciate this review.
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Holler if you need anything.
Shipping will never be free - as its sent from Australia, i've just changed to a much faster shipper which is cheaper too, so I might bump the price & "include free shipping". There's also Hajimoto who stocks it locally in the US
 
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WoodWelder said:
Interesting unit there I had to google.
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yeah - side note...
Andy mis-spoke saying you had to calibrate it from another unit - that feature is to "un-calibrate" it so to speak.

Every NateChrony is shoot-through calibrated from our certified/traceable master chronographs to within 1fps @ 1,000fps. So its the most accurate on the market.
 
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NateChrony said:
Shipping will never be free - as its sent from Australia, i've just changed to a much faster shipper which is cheaper too, so I might bump the price & "include free shipping".
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Weirdly aggressive post. If you prefer I word it differently, I looked for the lowest price delivered to my door,
 
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Rickstwowheels said:
Weirdly aggressive post. If you prefer I word it differently, I looked for the lowest price delivered to my door,
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Sorry if it sounded aggressive - not my intention.
My point was also that "free shipping" is never actually free, robbing peter to pay paul as it were
 
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Have the same little Chinese chrony as above, seems to work great. Saw a tube video that showed a guy clamping a piece of pcv pipe into it. Just slightly larger i.d than your barrel diameter. Works great. Makes it much easier to take you gun in and out for adjustment. For my Notos it is a 1.5 inch diameter piece of shedule 40.

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Hate The Rain said:
Have the same little Chinese chrony as above, seems to work great. Saw a tube video that showed a guy clamping a piece of pcv pipe into it. Just slightly larger i.d than your barrel diameter. Works great. Makes it much easier to take you gun in and out for adjustment. For my Notos it is a 1.5 inch diameter piece of shedule 40.
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Can you post a picture?
 
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Rickstwowheels said:
I have been trying to decide between this and the Nate Chrony. I would have ordered the Nate yesterday if Pyramid's free shipping threshold had been $150 and not $300. I appreciate this review.
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the only thing i do not like about the Nate is you have to have another devise to read results from .
 
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beerthief said:
the only thing i do not like about the Nate is you have to have another devise to read results from .
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Yeah this was a design decision.
I can add a screen to the Chrony, it'd be small, fragile, hard to read, add weight on the muzzle, add cost, maybe a hinge for it to fold out & face rearward (fragile!), if there's a problem you'd HAVE to come to me for a replacement. IMO a bad solution these days.
The assumption is "everyone has a smart phone" - best screen available on the planet, behind the best/toughest glass on the planet, and you don't need to come back to me if you break it.

Impossible to fit all the data, graphs & fancy stuff on anything but a smart device screen.
You can also buy a generic $35 android tablet as a dedicated screen - much cheaper than some other Chronograph display solutions
 
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NateChrony said:
Yeah this was a design decision.
I can add a screen to the Chrony, it'd be small, fragile, hard to read, add weight on the muzzle, add cost, maybe a hinge for it to fold out & face rearward (fragile!), if there's a problem you'd HAVE to come to me for a replacement. IMO a bad solution these days.
The assumption is "everyone has a smart phone" - best screen available on the planet, behind the best/toughest glass on the planet, and you don't need to come back to me if you break it.

Impossible to fit all the data, graphs & fancy stuff on anything but a smart device screen.
You can also buy a generic $35 android tablet as a dedicated screen - much cheaper than some other Chronograph display solutions
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OH i agree with you on all points, i just do not carry other things around IE: my cell is two flights of stairs and 30 feet away ,next to the door with my wallet and keys .
EDIT : If i was a (normal? cell phone ) person i would have bought a Nate already .
 
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