Chronograph- your suggestion?
Equipment
What would you recommend for a chronograph?
Battery operated to bring out into the field?
i have a pro chronograph that is battery operated, i purchased it about 25 years ago for about $100. it has served me well. they may no longer be available under this brand, and i think are now referred to as competition electronics. they are about $140.
Same as RonP. Or get the Garmin or Labradar for around 6 bills or so.
I have a Caldwell and never had any problems. Bought it on sale from Natchez Shooter Supply. Reasonable price and functional. Battery operated.
Garmin Xero. Recharegable, compact, accurate, easy to set up, and VERY user friendly.
I will never go back to the two others I have.
I have the Caldwell Ballistic Precision Chronograph, its inexpensive and works great, battery powered. Im sure the Garmin is better but its $800 while the caldwell is $150
If I was buying again today, I would buy the garmin for the amount of data you can get. However, I have had the pro chrono from Competition Electronics for about 10 years now, and I am not going to spend the $500 it would take to upgrade.
While I would love to see the data at all distances between launch and target, it's not data that I have to have to be successful. At reloading or archery. A decision you need to make for yourself. If that data is relevant to you, then definitely the garmin.
I barely use mine so if I were buying for me I’d buy whatever is cheaper between the Caldwell and the Competition Electronics. I only shoot through it when I get a new bow. I use sight marks and Archers Advantage for creating sight tapes so I don’t t need it for anything else.
Labradar’s have come down since the Garmin came out. $200-$300
The benefit of a Labradar, you can measure your arrow or bullet speed at different distances all the way to the target.
It’s more valuable to know how fast your arrow is going as it hits the animal. Sometimes vastly different than at the bow.
So your KE and momentum numbers are off
I've had 2 through the years, and have a Caldwell now, it is adequate for the $125 - $150 price range... Years ago I had a Chrony, I think I paid around $100 for it 30+ years ago, and it was junk...
Like Ron, I bought a pro chrono 20+ years ago. Works fine. I had a different chrono before that but shot it at close range with a 22-250, toast.
For bullets I like my CED chronograph, good performance for the buck.
I have had it work for arrows, too. But primarily use it for bullets.
Garmin is by far the best I have ever used
"The benefit of a Labradar, you can measure your arrow or bullet speed at different distances all the way to the target"
How can that be, how does that work, GPS???
"The benefit of a Labradar, you can measure your arrow or bullet speed at different distances all the way to the target"
Which would be wonderful for building a sight tape using the Precision Cut Archery software but too much $ for how much I would use it.
It’s a Doppler radar so it reads the object the whole distance not through a narrow window like a Caldwell or similar.
You also just shoot beside it not through the PIA triangle with mixed or no results.
