Chronograph problems......

[Arkansas_Airgunner]

I know damn well I can't be the only one here to do this but, who else has accidently SHOT their Chronograph? I done that earlier today while gathering data for my P-Rod after installing a heavy hammer spring. I clipped the little hood over the display on my Cauldwell. No damage per se, at least nothing a small file can take care of.

 

[RadarMan]

Chuckle-Chuckle… They say it not IF you shoot yiur Chronograph… but WHEN you shoot it

I nicked mine doing velocity strings once but it survived

At least it’s only an Air rifle and not a .308 Win.

 

[Treefrog]

I feel ya. My Chrony took a sabot from a 308/223 at about ten feet. It scarred the face, but that was it.

I haven't shot the Caldwell yet, but I look forward to it.

Cheers,

J~

 

[Chukar60]

I have never shot one, but I was at the range one day and a friendly pooch dug mine out of my range bag and gnawed on it. No real damage and I am fond of the dog so, no blood no foul.
Every time I use that chrony I think of that dog and get a good smile out of it

 

[longdog]

Yep, I’m in the club. My Caldwell still works fine though.

 

[357cal]

I have but, it only skimmed the top a few times. Its only a matter of time until i put a hole in it,lol.

 

[elh0102]

Yep, shot a couple of them. My ProChrono has a hole in the face of it now from my error. Luckily, I missed anything critical, either on the display or the internals. I just popped the top off and shook out a couple of small pieces of plastic and put a piece of black plastic tape over the hole. Good as new. My all-time chrono screw up was with another one when I had the great idea that I would chrono a shotgun load, which didn't turn out well at all. That one didn't make it home from the gun club.

 

[Simplemann]

Proverbs 15:33

 

[crowski]

Never shot my crony, but I shot the edge of my shooting table. Trying to shoot a fly. A permanent reminder. Crow

 

[Ezana4CE]

@Arkansas_Airgunner How far away was your chronograph from your gun when you shot it?

 

[maxtrouble]

I am also a member of the "I shot my Caldwell" club. I have hit it twice, once at about three feet and once at fifty yards. I have two good grooves that I sanded down so they were not sharp. No damage, only cosmetic. I call stuff like that "patina".

 

[GeneT]

I shot my friends shooting chrony, with a .45. Since switching to radar, I thought shooting your chronograph was a thing of the past... I think 'shooting chrony's were especially susceptible because you always had to get the round right down close to the sensor to get it to register.

GsT

 

[JimD]

I used to have a shooting chrony but I shot it one too many times trying to get it to read my air rifle indoors. I decided to buy an inexpensive chinese replacement and I think it works better. I shot one of them too, however. I was shooting 10 grain knock out slugs from my P35-177 and they were flying wildly. One clipped my first tripod mounted chinese one and broke the plastic box with the electronics and it didn't work after that. But the replacement was only $20 and reads in fps, which the old one did not do. I think it would be hard to shoot the inexpensive barrel mounted ones, even I have not done that, but tripod mounts are still at risk at my house. It's nice when a replacement is only $20.

 

[beerthief]

YUP! me too , shot mine center screen (a plug and play part BUT you cannot buy it. IF you look at the part you cna find the MFG. in china but a 100 piece minimum order so nope .

 

[PCPBarry]

I have a Marauder 22 synthetic stock I'm trying to tune myself and I originally bought the 35 dollar chrony off Amazon. The kind with the barrel clamp. I worked great for 6 or 8 months and just stopped reading. Would not record a shot. I decided to buy the ProCrony Deluxe. So far it works great but I had to learn about light. My cheap one worked great in the shop but the ProChrony didn't. Seems my lighting in the shop fouled it up some how. Now I have to get the door open and get some outside light on it then it works great. I am aware that there is a light bar for it but am going to keep that $60 to spend on pellets. Not that hard to get outside light here in CA. Anyway, I recommend the ProChrony and also hear good things about Caldwell.

 

[Airgun-hobbyist]

I've shot my Caldwell three times now. Every time it seems it has to be with a bigger bore, heavy slug so it does some pretty good damage. The first time was the best one. Shot through close to the top of the faceplate, making shrapnel plastic bits of the inside, ricocheting down to blow the battery and cover out of the bottom. Removing the broken pieces, I discovered a random capacitor in the bottom that I could not find where it came off the board at. So I rewired the battery terminal and it worked just fine. Since then I have got couple of good "skips" off the top also that did some good gouging and cracking. I did buy a "spare" that is a few percent lower in speed, but it hasn't been needed, yet.

 

[Florida_Man]

My safer options haha

 

[John "spysir" Blount]

Agree "shooting chrony" is the one that gets hit due to needing to be close enough to the sensors for a good reading.
Mine never worked at all with the sun shades so the stayed as new.
But every 1,000 or so shots it's fun to slap em up side the head (and al my friends enjoyed doing so also (except the one who prefered to shoot the porch rail).
A few .177's, the center hit on rear sensor was the Carer 707II set at 99fpe, the DAQ .458 blow it off the rail (just the air) and the misses laughed as my big concern was reading the screen as it flew 10'.
Still worked every time tho. Only switched to the pro chrono for the camera/tripod attachment and they were just about the bet you could get back then.
Good times.

John

 

[DesertSilver]

I've shot my Caldwell chrony and shot my cheap chicom free standing chrony 6 times. The 6th shot is what killed it .

 

[Peashooter]

In one of the videos from British SS i saw a new inline chronograph, looked interesting, small LCD on it and small memory, would store more shots paired to phone with BT