Garmin Xero C1 Pro Chronograph

[Varminterror]

any shotgun (trap loads) attempts with the xero? thanks

I’ll have more detail on this in a week or so.

 

[dieselchief]

look forward to your results

 

[jmorris]

Their Xero S1 really seemed to shorten the learning curve with the last person I introduced to clay shooting.

Garmin Xero® S1 Trapshooting Trainer

Xero® S1 Trapshooting Trainer is a live-fire mobile trapshooting trainer that analyzes shot position, reaction time & clay distance to help improve your accuracy.

www.garmin.com

 

[jmorris]

I was playing around with it this evening, with a pellet gun .177, very slow (258.9 avg fps), just to see it's range. I could only go to the side about 10" before it wouldn't pick up this combination. It stopped seeing them 40" directly above it and from 42" behind it. I started moving back, shooting comfortably over it and got as far back as 11 ft when I laughed and thought, "Wouldn't it be my luck that the first chronograph I ever shoot is one where it's impossible to shoot when used as directed...", so I stopped there.

Does make me wonder about it's ability be down range to get velocities.

 

[troy fairweather]

I was playing around with it this evening, with a pellet gun .177, very slow (258.9 avg fps), just to see it's range. I could only go to the side about 10" before it wouldn't pick up this combination. It stopped seeing them 40" directly above it and from 42" behind it. I started moving back, shooting comfortably over it and got as far back as 11 ft when I laughed and thought, "Wouldn't it be my luck that the first chronograph I ever shoot is one where it's impossible to shoot when used as directed...", so I stopped there.

Does make me wonder about it's ability be down range to get velocities.

Lol that would be my luck to, I'm sure someone has sent one flying from muzzle blast by now lol.

 

[Varminterror]

Does make me wonder about it's ability be down range to get velocities.

I know several guys who have fired past their Garmins as far out as 1,000yrds.

Place the unit behind a plate. It works. The downside is that for ammo with SD’s of 4-6 and ES’s of 25-35, by the time we get downrange, we can’t really know what was the actual velocity decay to make use of the data.

 

[Jim Watson]

Something to use your old chronograph for, near and far for the same shot.

 

[Varminterror]

Something to use your old chronograph for, near and far for the same shot.

Still fails, as any given unit will have no less than +/-3fps, or as much as +\-15fps potential error.

 

[jmorris]

@Varminterror, I think I read you played with two C1's one mounted to a rifle and one not to see the effects of recoil on readings, have you ever played with two just sitting side by side sitting there to see how close they were to one another?

I might have to play with mine and just set it behind protection for the sensor hub of my ShotMarker. My ProChrono was within 1fps of it when I was playing with the two of them.

 

[Varminterror]

@jmorris - I’ve typically seen - informally observed thus far - a relatively consistently recurring offset between units, but specifications for the units suggest they could be coincidentally parallel. This is something I’m hoping to be able to definitively confirm during this semi-scientific study.

 

[Berserker]

Most of the pictures I see of the garmin chrono are from prone position, with a few sitting on shooting bench. Can you set it on ground and shoot standing, such as for handguns. Or if your shooting bench for rifle is not big enough for it?

 

[MEHavey]

You need to have it within a foot or two for accurate doppler triggering.

 

[jmorris]

Most of the pictures I see of the garmin chrono are from prone position, with a few sitting on shooting bench. Can you set it on ground and shoot standing, such as for handguns. Or if your shooting bench for rifle is not big enough for it?

It displays where it needs to be on screen and in the manual. https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/web...-9196-26F824CA8CAD/EN-US/Xero_C1_OM_EN-US.pdf

My post #454 was seeing what it would detect using a small caliber very low velocity pellet gun, with me moving around it's zone of detection.

They don't take up much space, would need to be a really tiny bench to not have room for one.

 

[Varminterror]

Most of the pictures I see of the garmin chrono are from prone position, with a few sitting on shooting bench. Can you set it on ground and shoot standing, such as for handguns. Or if your shooting bench for rifle is not big enough for it?

The instructions state to have the unit placed between 5” and 15” from the barrel, and behind the muzzle by 5” to 15”.

I have used mine hand held, standing behind shooters firing prone, but I don’t make a habit of doing so.

 

[Walkalong]

Yep, they can work outside of their stated parameters, but not always. Pretty bullet proof inside their parameters, and, as stated, so small there's pretty much always room for it.

For pistols I just set it on the bench, if one doesn't have a bench, a tripod would work. Heck, you could sharpen a 2x4 and pound it in the ground a few inches and set it on that.

 

[jmorris]

Was playing with a barrel I built today and thought that I'd like a chronograph mount that went with the rifle and didn't require any modification. I didn't really feel like hanging it out there on is own but I'm not planning on throwing it into a 3gun barrel either, wanted a little protection from "normal" bumps.

After a shot of whisky, I decided it wasn't going to require programming or machining and I came up with this.



1"x1/8" aluminum that is held in place by the bipod frame and pinch bolt/linkage. The far hole is over a fastener in the bipod.





It also still allows the bipod to be folded.



I'll hit it with some flat black but then it will be harder to show how it fits...