Better late than never................

[Ben]

I know..........I'm late to the party ! !
I've always wanted one.
Thanks to Rockydoc I now have one.

Ben

 

[Spindrift]

Congrats!
I find a chronograf a great help, and interesting tool.

 

[Brad]

Holy crap, Ben stepped into the 20th century!

Might want to have Trevor shoot over it to make sure it doesn’t get shot.

 

[Joshua]

I was thinking the other night that I should get one.
Thanks to Ben I now know that I can wait a few more years.
Josh

 

[Ben]

Don't wait as long as I did.....................

 

[Cherokee]

Chron's are very useful to the reloader - stop guessing and know what your load is doing.

 

[JWFilips]

Man now we are really going to get some numbers on "Low Node" shooting!

 

[Tomme boy]

How long before he joins the rest of us that shot ours?

 

[fiver]

nunhunh, ain't shot mine.
I got a plan to not do that.
It took too long to save up, and I paid waay too much for the C.E.D. millennium-2, and I'm very careful about shooting over it.

 

[Tomme boy]

So was I until a sabot came apart

 

[Brad]

I hit the rods that hold the screens but never the chrony itself. Now that I have a LabRadar mine damn well better never get shot.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

There are two kinds of people with chronographs: Those that have shot their chronograph and those that are going to shoot their chronograph.

 

[CZ93X62]

There are two kinds of people with chronographs: Those that have shot their chronograph and those that are going to shoot their chronograph.

Guilty as charged. I'll plea to the sheet.

Chrongraph? NO. Polygraph? YES! They obliged ammo makers to stop lying their derrieres off about the performance of their products in the Real World. Mine have gotten quite a bit of use in years past, when I was doing development stuff.

 

[RicinYakima]

Actually more than one.

 

[Glaciers]

Nice!!!

 

[fiver]

the advantage of one like Ben has is you can't really shoot the chronograph itself.
you can shoot the screens and arms and even the eyes but if you shoot the actual chrono... hoo boy, you got more to worry about.

 

[Ben]

Fiver,

That's a real good point that you just made.

Ben

 

[RicinYakima]

I have had three of the first model Chrony's, the ones that only read one shot, red colored, and have black cardboard "wings". You can buy them for about $20 now because you have to do calculations with pen and paper.

 

[Hawk]

I got my first PACT chrono in 1986. Still using it.
Im saving my pennies l to upgrade.

 

[RBHarter]

Got my first one with an unburned powder kernel . Gave it away with that tiny perfect hole through the face lens and lcd of a Chrony Alfa . It was only $90 to get a Beta and $32 shipping ....... I caught a sale and replaced the Alfa for $109 ...... About 2 weeks later I scored a brand new Gamma less printer for $110 shipped ...... The Gamma was out of the box long enough to do a parts count . The Alfa was set up and checked against known loads and has run a 100 or so work ups over it with a silly little aluminum and Lexan deflector out in front of it about 2" .
I only use mine for MV so it's pretty easy to keep it below line of fire but there are a couple of otherwise nonfatal line pocks in the shield .

At first having one was "All the Wonders of the Universe" (in your best GP Oz or Robin Williams Genie explaination voice) . Now it is more a tool to validate data for a known value or reach a desired goal . I could still get by without it but it is a great builder of confidence .