Choices: Rimfire trainer or Chronograph for PRS?

[Peter Laurvick]

Hey all,
I am really hooked on PRS and have been at it almost a year. I have been reloading for several years and load all my PRS ammo for several calibers. I recently learned about NRL22 Matches and have a local club that runs monthly matches.

I'm in the position of only being able to get one of the following and want you opinions on which YOU would get:
-Ruger Precision Rimfire .22lr. For a practice rifle to match my PRS rifle to shoot way more way more often.
-Labradar Chronograph. To help my reloading and give me way more accurate inputs for ballistic calculators.

Other info:
-I don't own any other .22lr's
-I don't own any other Chronograph's (I have just got good at guessing speed through shooting at known ranges)

What would you get and why?

 

[Snuby642]

If you can hold sub moa the trainer 22lr
Is not going to help much, but fun.

If not able to hold sub moa it would be a good investment to work on basic skills.

 

[Peter Laurvick]

I can definitely load sub MOA with everything consistently, but I am guessing at velocity a lot. But can usually get on target first shot within 800 yards with my data. beyond that it will usually take me a shot or three. As far as me as a shooter, I need work with positional stuff a lot and that's my biggest problem with shooting right now.

 

[Snuby642]

Well pretty much answered your own question right there.

 

[Snuby642]

I like positional shooting.

My favorites are on my ass or on my belly . Lol

 

[Dthomas3523]

Do you reload much? If not, get the .22 trainer.

You can either borrow a chrono or figure out velocity from dope.

The .22 will get you out shooting more. The chrono keeps you shooting the same amount.

Not sure what being able to hold an moa or not matters. Trigger time is trigger time. And if it’s too easy, make the targets smaller or the distance longer.

 

[Dthomas3523]

Also, no need to guess velocity.

Shoot 100 for zero.

Shoot 300 and write down dope.

Use the math posted in the article on the snipers hide home page to get you on steel at 6-800. True it up to the exact dope for water line.

Use the velocity truing function in software to get the velocity the software wants.

Done

 

[Peter Laurvick]

Also, no need to guess velocity.

Shoot 100 for zero.

Shoot 300 and write down dope.

Use the math posted in the article on the snipers hide home page to get you on steel at 6-800. True it up to the exact dope for water line.

Use the velocity truing function in software to get the velocity the software wants.

Done

That's exactly what I have been doing. I would say I do reload a lot, I actually can't remember the last time I fired factory ammo for anything just cause I can load cheaper and better ammo. But using that technique I do just fine with truing my speed for data at distance. It would be really nice to see what my speeds are but you are right, think i'd rather be out shooting more than having a little more information about what i'm already doing that's working.

 

[slimJim2000]

22LR trainers can only do so much, especially if you plan on shooting it at 100 yards. Once you know how to shoot more time with one isn't going to help that much, and they can even teach bad technique such as free recoiling the rifle. As long as you don't have flinching issues or need more trigger time your better off shooting the rifle you have more if that's what your really want to improve on doing.

 

[Dthomas3523]

22LR trainers can only do so much, especially if you plan on shooting it at 100 yards. Once you know how to shoot more time with one isn't going to help that much, and they can even teach bad technique such as free recoiling the rifle. As long as you don't have flinching issues or need more trigger time your better off shooting the rifle you have more if that's what your really want to improve on doing.

This is not true at all. If it were, then dry firing wouldn’t be such a valuable training tool. Not to mention, free recoil and forms of free recoil are valid techniques when used properly.

 

[slimJim2000]

How exactly is pulling the trigger of a different rifle going to help you get used to the the trigger pull of the rifle you really want to shoot? Your better off dry firing that rifle if that is what your working on. Free recoil never worked for me with anything that had any recoil.

 

[Dthomas3523]

How exactly is pulling the trigger of a different rifle going to help you get used to the the trigger pull of the rifle you really want to shoot? Your better off dry firing that rifle if that is what your working on. Free recoil never worked for me with anything that had any recoil.

This is all wrong and not even going to get into it.

You know everything except what you don’t know.