Since the last fall, it tipped over in the wind last summer 1ft off the ground. My Labradar needs to go back for repair.
The unit is too damn fragile for the front range, but dang I still try. Today I used it with some load development work I was doing with my 300NM and 260REM.
The winds were back up to 18-25MPH, totally messed with the unit readings. I used a different tripod, legs spread wide, and lucky for me I had a back up in the car, the Super Chrono from Steinart was sitting there so why not. I actually needed it.
Before the Labradar would not add a new track so I was deleting and repeating, but after a few shakes, it was adding new tracks again. I did a factory reset on it, went through every screen, changed the batteries, it was looking pretty good so why not. Ugh,
With the suppressor covers on my cans, the MagnetoSpeed can get a bit funky lining it up, and I was too lazy to remove the suppressors and/or their covers.
So as the winds crept up, the unit was picking up the wind and giving me a false reading, between 1200fps and 1900fps is our wind. The SuperChrono was a worthwhile backup, but dang I missed my MagnetoSpeed today. The Labradar was all over the place and by the 7th load test, it was unusable, super bad. It would switch off, pick up the wind, do everything but it's damn job. I so want to like it better than the MagnetoSpeed, nope, not today.
One more time for repair, if this thing breaks again I am officially off the Labradar bandwagon. Annoyed me so much I did not finish and went home.
Gonna be Two Box and MagnetoSpeed for the win moving forward. I dig the ease of use, but guys, we have wind and stuff.
On a brighter note, the Red Crayons in 300NORMA worked the best, 230s at 3000fps with an SD of 9fps and 136gr Scenars out of my 20" Tikka with Bartlein barrel at 2855fps with an SD of 7fps ... I'll take those. Pink Crayons for the Tikka, next to sort out the 185s for my 308.
The unit is too damn fragile for the front range, but dang I still try. Today I used it with some load development work I was doing with my 300NM and 260REM.
The winds were back up to 18-25MPH, totally messed with the unit readings. I used a different tripod, legs spread wide, and lucky for me I had a back up in the car, the Super Chrono from Steinart was sitting there so why not. I actually needed it.
Before the Labradar would not add a new track so I was deleting and repeating, but after a few shakes, it was adding new tracks again. I did a factory reset on it, went through every screen, changed the batteries, it was looking pretty good so why not. Ugh,
With the suppressor covers on my cans, the MagnetoSpeed can get a bit funky lining it up, and I was too lazy to remove the suppressors and/or their covers.
So as the winds crept up, the unit was picking up the wind and giving me a false reading, between 1200fps and 1900fps is our wind. The SuperChrono was a worthwhile backup, but dang I missed my MagnetoSpeed today. The Labradar was all over the place and by the 7th load test, it was unusable, super bad. It would switch off, pick up the wind, do everything but it's damn job. I so want to like it better than the MagnetoSpeed, nope, not today.
One more time for repair, if this thing breaks again I am officially off the Labradar bandwagon. Annoyed me so much I did not finish and went home.
Gonna be Two Box and MagnetoSpeed for the win moving forward. I dig the ease of use, but guys, we have wind and stuff.
On a brighter note, the Red Crayons in 300NORMA worked the best, 230s at 3000fps with an SD of 9fps and 136gr Scenars out of my 20" Tikka with Bartlein barrel at 2855fps with an SD of 7fps ... I'll take those. Pink Crayons for the Tikka, next to sort out the 185s for my 308.