Several of you are blessed with surroundings where you don't have to deal with the next guy in line, waiting for that crowded and busy rifle range slot. Not for this urban based former mountain boy. I love my little Chrony Chronograph, and it served me well until the rifle range got to be too crowded for me to jump out in front of the firing line to set it up. I could only use it regularly at a friend's farm, and then just to run the muzzle velocity numbers without combining an accuracy check at distance due to the limited area where I could fire my handloads.
And the photocell technology of the Chrony does have a little trouble in certain lighting and atmospheric conditions.
Enter the new technology!
The Magneto Chrono - I saw a writeup in this month's (American Rifleman magazine - wrong) CORRECTED - Shooting Times magazine (July 2015), and then found a great article here:
http://www.realguns.com/articles/391.htm
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Here is a partial description online at MidwayUSA.com:
MagnetoSpeed V3 Ballistic Chronograph
Product #: 628777 MagnetoSpeed #: MS V3 UPC #: 855036004023
$380.00
The MagnetoSpeed barrel-mounted, ballistic chronograph has brought modern convenience to the often tiresome task of measuring bullet velocities. The MagnetoSpeeed chronographs use ground breaking electromagnetic sensors, instead of problematic optical sensors, to eliminate common chronograph problems. Magnetospeed chronographs are swift to set up, accurate, impervious to light conditions, do not blow over in high winds and easily fit in a range bag. The display unit stores up to 99 shots per string, calculates useful velocity statistics and saves the data in a spreadsheet format to a micro SD card.
MagnetoSpeed V3 features an improved designed with the following features...[snip]
I'm pumped! Gotta get one.
EDITED - Shooting Times, not American Rifleman magazines, carried an article on this great innovation. JdeF