Some Days Chicken, Some Days Feathers

[Joe S]

.495 ball, 0.018 patch, 70 grains FFg

Elevation is right on, but it looks like the windage needs a little adjustment.

[wattlebuster]

You wanted a new one anyway

[Topknot]

Yes Joe, I agree. Just tap your rear sight a  _ _ _ _  hair to the left.

                                                       topknot

[WadePatton]

Appears to me that more elevation was in order, for that particular shot.

Did you get a video?! 

[Kopfjaeger]

I hear their a little tough to eat.

[Frizzen]

I think that everybody who has even owned one has shot it or will. It's like dry loading , sooner or
later you will. Just no way getting around it. I know I used to shoot all my pistols thru a friends and
I never hit it. Heck, used to poke fun at those who did. Anyway I talked him into buying it as I used
it a lot more than he did. Well he sold it to me and the second time I used it I hit it with a 44 mag.
Right dead on too!   Should never have bought it. Oh well, that's my story.

[WadePatton]

Look at the logo!  there's a bullet plowing right through it.

Brilliant.  Subliminally programming the user to destroy the product---

so he can buy another one.  Talk about planned obsolescence.


(bullet/ball holes voids the warranty)

hmmm, maybe an "extended warranty" biz op there...

[Virginiarifleman]

is that one of them new fancy shoot through crony's ?

[Vomitus]

  PMSL!!! 

[4ster]

You leave it on like that it is going to drain the battery.   

[hanshi]

YIKES!  I have an old Oehler and the only thing down range are the skyscreens.  They're not as expensive to replace as the chrony itself.  I once did nick a plastic cover; there's a nice, shallow furrow on one slat made by the .243 bullet.

[smylee grouch]

I have one of those chrony's and was always worried about doing just that so I mounted it on a steel plate with another steel plate in front of the chrony just high enough to protect it and mounted the skyscreen rods in holes in a short section of 2x4 laid alonside of the chrony so if I hit the rods it wont break out any of the plastic where they would normaly go in the chrony. So far no damage but some heavy charges will blast the skyscreens of the rods.

[Don Adams]

Did it measure the ft pounds of energy?

[Daryl]

lololol- I've replaced the sky screens a couple times once on my first chronograph in 1977, then again in 84 with my second one - but that's it. Screens are indeed cheaper than a machine.  I'm now using a chrony, where in the body sits downrange  with screens - and the countdr box on te bench. So far, it is unscathed, however there is a 1/2  rod nick out of one from a .17 cal. bullet running 3,900fps+.

It does pay, or rather, it costs less to sight in the rifle BEFORE chronographing it.

[Joe S]

[quote]  PMSL!!! [/quote]

Yeah, me too Leatherbelly.  What made this particularly funny is that it wasn’t my chronograph.  So, instead of buying one new chronograph, I had to buy two.  I couldn’t replace my friends’ chronograph, and then ask to borrow it again after I blasted a hole in his old one.

Daryl – I have an excuse.  Sort of anyway.  This barrel has no sights on it.  I’m doing some experiments, and just had a barrel bolted to a table.  There’s some slope between the table and the chronograph, and as you can see, I misestimated the slope a tad.  I hear there is something called a “line level” that might help me out with this problem.  I’m going to look into it further before I shoot again.

[Daryl]

[quote]  PMSL!!!

Daryl – I have an excuse.  Sort of anyway.  This barrel has no sights on it.  I’m doing some experiments, and just had a barrel bolted to a table.  There’s some slope between the table and the chronograph, and as you can see, I misestimated the slope a tad.  I hear there is something called a “line level” that might help me out with this problem.  I’m going to look into it further before I shoot again.

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Oh- that's OK then --- 

[billd]

Is that the newest model that measures speed and penetration ?

[Clark Badgett]

That'll buff right out