Like a total idiot i took out my chronograph today doing some velocity checks of shotshells.....

Yup, you guessed it....the wad hit the display and "took it out". I just ordered another one for $85 plus shipping.....and this one will have some protection on the unit for wayward wads....

If you plan on testing shotshells.....be duly advised!!!

Gas checks don't do them any good either.

Or 405 grain bullets at 2k fps...

Lets not forget muzzle loader sabots and grease cookies from a 45-120 Sharps, I smoked 2 chronos that way, Damn.

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Originally posted by vapodog:
Like a total idiot i took out my chronograph today doing some velocity checks of shotshells.....

Not you ,VD I'll bet you gave Hot Core a real teehee-hee. Oh the gas check thing ia absolutely correct. Yes me too roger

at least we can laugh about it!

At my range I will typically be the best shot with a rifle and the worst with a pistol.

Chronographs last one magazine full of ammo from a pistol around me, before I accidentally shoot them.

I have never come close to shooting a chrono with a rifle.

Right now, I am going to go a whole year before I shoot over a chrono with a handgun.

I inherited a Chrony that my bud killed with his Beeman pellet rifle.

LMAO! There seams to be a basic rule - if you shoot enough over a chrono one day you WILL take it out!

I've been shooting over a Chrony for several years now - had a couple shots where the muzzle blast lifted the screens off. It was all I could do but laugh at it as I put it back to gether.

Just gotta love it...the hobby that is!

now you gone and dun it - you should know better than to make hot core right on something, now there no living with him around here

I put my chronograph up on the shelf with my bore scope long ago.

I think that I might have the world's oldest chronograph skyscreens. I bought a Pact between 1981 and 1984 and have yet to shoot it.

I was just shooting over it last weekend.

I place them 3ft from muzzle, per SAMMI. It seems to help in not giving "things" enough time to get off course enough to do damage.

I still had a few close calls though at some point.....back edge of unit has a few half-dimples on the edge.

Secured screens and get a blast deflector in front of display are helpful.

My Chronograph has served me perfectly since I bought it 10 years ago. It remains in it's original shipping carton on a shelf in the shop, unopened..

Sabots from shotguns and front loaders also kill them dead!!!

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Originally posted by vapodog:
....the wad hit the display and "took it out". ...

You say that as if you think it was a "bad thing" that happened.

That created the opportunity for you to help get the economy rolling(along with the pieces of chronograph).

Plus you know the "Wads" are running at a "Killer Level". Or "Wads = (Killer)Pressure". Now if you can just get the Birds and Ducks within Wad range, you will be doing fine.
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By the way, for all you folks who want to Flail away on me, you can join the Flailing Party on the Big Game Board. I had the nerve to question some things Barsness wrote, which were all wrong. Imagine that!

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join the Flailing Party on the Big Game Board.

Hey Hot Core....can you furnish a link!

I thought it would be cheaper to shoot a fowling shot at the edge of the target, but I guess it wasn't. I turned my shooting chrony into a shot chrony!

This thread is tooo funny.
Sounds like confessions are in order...

Hey Vapo, No problemo, this should take you to the Flailing Party on poooooor old Hot Core.

It gives those folks a chance to get a bit of Heart Exercise, so I did it as a public service.

FWIW my personal experience with annealing is non existant.....so I decline to comment except that I've had some professional experience in heat treating and reserve all practice to controlled temperatures and times and testing.....

If one can do metal treating with a candle he's a better man than me!

As to the 40 MM scope lenses.......I have no use for a scope of larger diameter......not that they may or may not have value......just that it's not my cup of tea!

Well, this post is making me smile and reminding me that most are my fellow shooters are human - I know I am

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you know the "Wads" are running at a "Killer Level".

Don't knock those wads. I killed a pigeon with one once!

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Originally posted by Hot Core:
Hey Vapo, No problemo, this should take you to the Flailing Party on poooooor old Hot Core.

It gives those folks a chance to get a bit of Heart Exercise, so I did it as a public service.

I’ve read John Barsness’s articles in Rife magazine before. I never had a strong feeling about his writings one way or the other. If the title or headline doesn’t capture my interest I don’t bother to read the article no matter who wrote it.

I have noticed that some people circle the wagons rather quickly when ever you come around though.

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Originally posted by Lincs Stalker:
Well, this post is making me smile and reminding me that most are my fellow shooters are human - I know I am

Lincs Stalker, that’s a drag! I’ve seen a couple of Chronys (F-1 and an Alpha) meet the same fate at my range over the years. Hope you didn’t do that in front of too many witnesses. So far my Alpha is still lead-free.

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Originally posted by MickinColo:
...I have noticed that some people circle the wagons rather quickly when ever you come around though.

There are indeed people who believe EVERYONE should think and act exactly alike. Sure doesn't do much to stimulat the old gray matter though.

I probably need to go back and kick that Hornet Nest.

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Originally posted by Hot Core:
I probably need to go back and kick that Hornet Nest.

Hey folks.....This is just plain fun!

You need to watch out for high scoped ar-15s also killed one crony that way.Good Kuck

The nest has been Stomped!

The Chrony is the best thing ever made-----for the company!
I would never replace one, I would buy a Pact.

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Originally posted by bfrshooter:
The Chrony is the best thing ever made-----for the company!
I would never replace one, I would buy a Pact.

Slow learner here! Had three before I got the Oehler. roger

My Uncle quote said "What kind of idiot shoots a chronograph" and one week later put a 300 gn XTP from a 460 S&W strait down the working bits of a Chrony LOL

guys that can't hit a chrony are just plain bad shots!!

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Originally posted by merlinron:
guys that can't hit a chrony are just plain bad shots!!

Yeah . . . and I was a good shot twice in one day . . . popped the right front skyscreen upright first. The left one held it okay . . . until I popped it 5 rounds later . . .

Doh!

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Originally posted by Fjold:
I think that I might have the world's oldest chronograph skyscreens. I bought a Pact between 1981 and 1984 and have yet to shoot it.

I was just shooting over it last weekend.

I never coulld get excited about having my cronograph down range. I have had 2 pack's and onley replaced 1 set of screens.
Bill

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Originally posted by Bill Cooley:

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Originally posted by Fjold:
I think that I might have the world's oldest chronograph skyscreens. I bought a Pact between 1981 and 1984 and have yet to shoot it.

I was just shooting over it last weekend.

I never coulld get excited about having my cronograph down range. I have had 2 pack's and onley replaced 1 set of screens.
Bill

I didn't believe the BC for my 123 Scenars so I put the screens out at 100 yards and shot over them a couple of weeks ago. I still didn't hit the screens.

This thread from last year probably should be combined with this one.

http://forums.accuratereloadin...=2511043&m=446105658

It starts out with pictures of a Chrony that had been dismantled by a 405 grain 45-70 bullet travelling about 1700 fps.


Lost Sheep, Good Luck

P.S. My chronograph now wears $50 worth of "insurance" in the form of a couple of pieces of channel iron. I have tested it. It will protect from a shallow hit from a .500 S&W with barely a skid mark.

If you have to use a 45-701 to kill a chrony, you are doing something wrong!