About a month ago,, while working on building some loads for my DIL,, and needing to chrono them,, I was discussing the Garmin with Miss Penny again. She'd tried to get me one as a Christmas present but none were to be had. Sold out everywhere.
We were going to a restaurant that day,, in a town with a Cabelas. She looked them up online,, AND made a phone call. They had one,, and she asked me if I wanted my B-Day present early. Off to Cabelas.
Using my military discount,, we got it out the door for under $600. I was happy. Plus,, I found a nice S&W M-57 in their gun library to go home with me as well.
The very next day,, out on my range,, I too discovered how EASY & FUN it was to use over my Ohler 35P. Like Dick,, even I,, with my very limited abilities with modern, fancy, computer type stuff, I was EASY to use.
I have since chronoed more stuff in the last month or so,, than I'd done in the last 6 months.
I even have a friend,, who has a NIB Caldwell one that we set up right beside my Garmin. I was shooting his gun & testing his loads,, as he was trying to write down the data from his Caldwell. I later printed out his data from my Garmin.
His comment to me; "You really are helping me spend my money!" I see a Garmin in his future.
I plan to set up my Garmin AND my Ohler side by side to see how each one varies vs the other one.
