Garmin Xero® C1 Pro Chronograph

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Bought one and I am impressed. Really impressed. Set up time is about 10 seconds. Smaller than a cigarette package (w/o tripod). It comes with its own, btw. Has yet to not record a shot. Downloads data to smart phone or tablet with a free app. Smart phone can export data to a spreadsheet. Waterproof, reasonably shockproof, fits inside your range bag, and runs on battery for more than eight hours. It's so easy to use, you can fool yourself at first trying to figure things out; however, in reality you just turn it on, select a new session, set it behind muzzle, and shoot. It does all the rest.

In my opinion, if you want a chronograph that you will use, get this one. If you decide to get one, I suggest or
 
cbrewer said:
Bought one and I am impressed. Really impressed. Set up time is about 10 seconds. Smaller than a cigarette package (w/o tripod). It comes with its own, btw. Has yet to not record a shot. Downloads data to smart phone or tablet with a free app. Smart phone can export data to a spreadsheet. Waterproof, reasonably shockproof, fits inside your range bag, and runs on battery for more than eight hours. It's so easy to use, you can fool yourself at first trying to figure things out; however, in reality you just turn it on, select a new session, set it behind muzzle, and shoot. It does all the rest. uno online

In my opinion, if you want a chronograph that you will use, get this one. If you decide to get one, I suggest or
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This is the best Chronograph Ever! Good battery life, mine hasn't missed a shot yet, and it's tiny! So easy to toss in the range bag. It's generations ahead of the Lab Radar, Magnetospeed and others. The one thing the Lab Radar will do that the Garmin won't is take multiple readings per shot. I rarely used this feature on my Lab Radar and may never use my Lab Radar and Magnetospeeds again!
 
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I jumped in and bought one and It works great. It has about a three minute learning curve and It has not missed a shot sense I have been using it. I have used many different types of chronographs over the years including a ballistic pendulum that I built when I was in collage and this one is by far the best.
 
Bill Wynne said:
I jumped in and bought one and It works great. It has about a three minute learning curve and It has not missed a shot sense I have been using it. I have used many different types of chronographs over the years including a ballistic pendulum that I built when I was in collage and this one is by far the best.
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Somebody else goes that far back huh? We built one and tested it in freshman physics class. Used the professor's .22lr right there in the classroom. Might not get away with that today.
 
+1. My Labradar became obsolete about five minutes after trying the Garmin. It just absolutely works. I bought it just because it can live in my range bag, so I'll always have a chrono even if I hadn't planned on using one when I packed for the range (I wish I had more often than I care to admit).

GsT
 
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I saw that in some of the pre-release fluff and the specs are almost identical to the Garmin, so it didn't seem very compelling. And owners of the original Labradar can tell you the LR phone app was never very robust and the device interface was terrible, in spite of having more buttons to work with. They'll have to drop their price fairly substantially, I think, to compete with the Garmin.

GsT
 
I like that I don't have to connect to the phone when I use it. One less distraction. I can just connect when I get home and all the data is still there and transfers to the phone app easily.
 
FYI: I talked with the Lab Radar folks on the phone last year. I had found out that the LR unit will only read up to 3,999fps. I asked them if the unit could be modified to read 4,000+ fps or did they plan in the future to market a unit that would. They responded no to both questions. I did not purchase one because I had some varmint loads the would succeed 4K fps and I wanted to test these. I ended up with a Garmin when they came out and were available. I am very happy I did. Perhaps other manufactures will market similar units in the future at less than the $600 price of the Garmin.
I have had multiple other chronographs in the past both with sky screens and the Magneto Speed. The sky screens are very sensitive to sun position and brightness. They are a pain to set up and bulky. They will blow over in our "gentle" Texas winds. You will also need to purchase a separate camera tripod. The Magneto Speed does not use sky screens but hangs off the end of the barrel. It may change the harmonics of the barrel and is somewhat of a pain when switching between different barrel diameters. There are also the pesky wires hanging from both of these types of units. They do offer printer capability. I am not sure if the Garmin does. After testing and using these units I feel that the Garmin is the best choice.
 
I have seen that Lab Radar has come out with a unit similar to the Garmin for $600 and that Garmin has come out with a cheaper Pro Compact unit for slightly more than $400.00. I haven't tried either of this units and hence cannot comment on them.
 
I don't think you can directly connect the Garmin to a printer, but you can download the data (via the app) and then print, or just archive. A more involved method is to get the raw data file off the Garmin (just use it like a thumb drive). The raw data is in a proprietary format (Garmin FIT), but they have details here: https://developer.garmin.com/fit/overview/ and a converter to CSV here: https://developer.garmin.com/fit/fitcsvtool/editing-files/. (I haven't tried the converter as I run Linux and the converter only works on inferior OS's)

GsT
 
cbrewer said:
Bought one and I am impressed. Really impressed. Set up time is about 10 seconds. Smaller than a cigarette package (w/o tripod). It comes with its own, btw. Has yet to not record a shot. Downloads data to smart phone or tablet with a free app. Smart phone can export data to a spreadsheet. Waterproof, reasonably shockproof, fits inside your range bag, and runs on battery for more than eight hours. It's so easy to use, you can fool yourself at first trying to figure things out; however, in reality you just turn it on, select a new session, set it behind muzzle, and shoot. It does all the rest.

In my opinion, if you want a chronograph that you will use, get this one. If you decide to get one, I suggest or
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Quick question-can you label each string inside the actual chrono? So that when you save them you can tell what load that is when you re-read it later?
 
65shooter said:
Quick question-can you label each string inside the actual chrono? So that when you save them you can tell what load that is when you re-read it later?
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Only with the "app". There is no way to do so without your phone.

GsT
 
65shooter said:
Ok so once you name it, is it stored under that name inside the crono?
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Yes. And if you retrieve the data to your computer the name of the string is included in the data. Without the app it's just "String #112", etc.

GsT
 
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