BEST LEGIT DEAL ON A GARMIN XERO C1 CHRONOGRAPH?

[Randominator]

I bought this Garmin last fall when they first came out. After the first range session, I sold my Oehler and Magnetospeed.

[45MAN]

OK, GOT MY XERO C1 IN TODAY. LOOKED AT INSTRUCTIONS AND A YOU TUBE VIDEO, AND NEED CLARIFICATION FOR CHRONOING A HANDGUN: 1) YOU HAVE TO SHOOT OVER THE CHRONO vs HAVING IT TO THE SIDE? 2) SHOULD THE CHRONO BE UNDER/BEHIND THE MUZZLE or IS UNDER BUT IN FRONT OF THE MUZZLE OK? 3) ON T/C's, ENCORES, etc. SHOOTING RIFLE LIKE CARTRIDGES CAN YOU USE THE RIFLE METHOD OF PLACING THE CHRONO BEHIND THE MUZZLE/OFF TO THE SIDE?

MAN IS THIS THING TINY AND LIGHT!!!!

[45MAN]

OK, GOT MY XERO C1 IN TODAY. LOOKED AT INSTRUCTIONS AND A YOU TUBE VIDEO, AND NEED CLARIFICATION FOR CHRONOING A HANDGUN: 1) YOU HAVE TO SHOOT OVER THE CHRONO vs HAVING IT TO THE SIDE? 2) SHOULD THE CHRONO BE UNDER/BEHIND THE MUZZLE or IS UNDER BUT IN FRONT OF THE MUZZLE OK? 3) ON T/C's, ENCORES, etc. SHOOTING RIFLE LIKE CARTRIDGES CAN YOU USE THE RIFLE METHOD OF PLACING THE CHRONO BEHIND THE MUZZLE/OFF TO THE SIDE?

MAN IS THIS THING TINY AND LIGHTWEIGHT!!!

[45MAN]

USED IT THIS MORNING AT MY RANGE ON THE RIO GRANDE, WOW! CLOSEST THING TO MAGIC I EVER HELD IN MY HAND.

[kings6]

Rey, I hope my leading you down the scammers path worked okay with your card company like mine did. Mine arrives Monday according to my son.

[45MAN]

Mar 7, 2024 12:09:12 GMT -5 kings6 said:

Try, I hope my leading you down the scammers path worked okay with your card company like mine did. Mine arrives Monday according to my son.

PAYPAL ADVISED I WAS GETTING A FULL REFUND

[marlin35]

I am hoping to find a lab radar on the cheap with more people buying these Garmins. I am always one step behind the curve.

[squawberryman]

Marlin find the money. My Labradar went to someone who will use it on a cart (permanently) for testing as it's part of the job. If you are a hunter/shooter I say this:

Buying a Garmin is burning money.
Buying a used Labradar is wasting it.

[longoval]

Used mine today for the first time. It is so easy.

For the first time, using a chrono was fun -- not a chore.

[pattontime]

Here was my best deal, my Bride bought me a Garmin for my combo Birthday-Christmas present, she got a $75.00 discount for taking a Scheels credit card, which is the same thing she did 3 years ago when she bought my LabRadar for Birthday -Christmas present & since she never used the card again & they canceled it, she was able to do it again for the Garmin, I did give her the $350 I got for selling my LabRadar.
But what a sweetheart of a wife she is.

[zeus]

Mar 6, 2024 19:41:48 GMT -5 45MAN said:

OK, GOT MY XERO C1 IN TODAY. LOOKED AT INSTRUCTIONS AND A YOU TUBE VIDEO, AND NEED CLARIFICATION FOR CHRONOING A HANDGUN: 1) YOU HAVE TO SHOOT OVER THE CHRONO vs HAVING IT TO THE SIDE? 2) SHOULD THE CHRONO BE UNDER/BEHIND THE MUZZLE or IS UNDER BUT IN FRONT OF THE MUZZLE OK? 3) ON T/C's, ENCORES, etc. SHOOTING RIFLE LIKE CARTRIDGES CAN YOU USE THE RIFLE METHOD OF PLACING THE CHRONO BEHIND THE MUZZLE/OFF TO THE SIDE?

MAN IS THIS THING TINY AND LIGHTWEIGHT!!!

I put it to the side on everything I shoot Rey. Slightly behind muzzle so it doesn’t take blast.

[paul105]

When I first got mine, I chronoed some center fire handgun ammo (forget the gun/chrono orientation). Didn't realize that the garmin (located on a waist high bench) was still on and shot a full magazine of 22s (SR22) standing with gun above and slightly in front of the unit. Started to put the garmin away and noticed it had recorded all 10 shots of 22s.

Point being, I don't think it is terrible sensitive to the gun's location. I would heed Zeus's caution: "Slightly behind muzzle so it doesn’t take blast".

Paul

[cas]

FINALLY got to use mine today. Wow. Yeah, it's a lot of money. BUT... if I look back over the years, how much time I spent setting up chronographs, fighting with shades, fighting with tripods, trying to get them lined up, back and forth, back and forth up and down. Turn it a little, too much. Blows over in the wind. Then finding out the light was awful and not getting good readings. Then setting up somewhere, anywhere that would work, just dumping valuable rounds into the berm just to get at least one or two readings.... my goodness, what a waste of time. Figure 30 years of that. Which is why it got used so infrequently.
I will use this thing just about every round I fire from the bench from now on.

I shot 43 rounds of 6.5 Creedmoor and 14 rounds of .510 Whisper. Some just fouling rounds at 200 yard steel, some at 100 yards for groups fine tuning loads, some bouncing back and forth every other shot between 50 and 100 yard targets. And I got velocities for every single one. Amazingly simple. My traditional chrono would have been lined up for one of those distances, but I'd have needed to move it or me for the others.



Fun note... the 43 rounds sent 6,020 grains of projectile down range in total. The 14 rounds sent 9,100 grains.

[magman]

Finally ended up getting one from Cabelas. With all discounts applied $425.

[markwell]

For handguns, I just set mine on the bench off to the side shielded from the muzzle blast by a pot that covers our rifle rest. Hasn't missed picking up a shot yet.