So I started with the Magnetospeed Sporter, which worked fine as a low-budget method and worked fine for guns with barrels. It'd cause a shift in POI and I have seen some wild setups to avoid that. But then I switched to a Labradar. The Labradar worked with everything, and with the remote trigger would pick up suppressed shots. The only unfortunate issue is the footprint. I'd be lugging around this humongo device with external battery pack, tripod, etc... It was great but its just huge.
The Garmin C1 is pretty fantastic with a few caveats that is partly due to user error. On my M&P 5.7 pistol, I tried pistol with a speed range that should have covered the 40gr and 35gr rounds - but nothing got picked up. I then had to switch to Rifle with the lowest speed range and then it would record all of the shots.
On the 10.5" AR, I had to keep the C1 fairly close to the barrel of the gun. So I'd need a shorter mag or taller sandbags. On some of the pistol/PCCs I could keep the C1 on the bench and shoot from a slightly higher elevation.
And when syncing my sessions to my iPhone, not all the sessions would back up at the same time. I'd be reviewing the data at home and noticed some of the data was missing. I then re-synced with the C1 and they'd slowly trickle in. This is after syncing numerous times at the range. It wasn't a chronological issue - it was random sessions and not the earliest/latest ones that weren't syncing.
Also navigating the stored sessions on the phone is a bit cumbersome as it doesn't show pertinent data (Avg, ES/SD) at a glance, so I have to go into each session - unless I am doing something wrong. I could always go to the C1 itself and review the sessions or perhaps export to CSV and email to myself.
Overall the Garmin C1 is great. It saves a LOT of room/weight and I don't have any reservations about using it more often to check muzzle velocities versus the cumbersome magnetospeed or Labradar.
The Garmin C1 is pretty fantastic with a few caveats that is partly due to user error. On my M&P 5.7 pistol, I tried pistol with a speed range that should have covered the 40gr and 35gr rounds - but nothing got picked up. I then had to switch to Rifle with the lowest speed range and then it would record all of the shots.
On the 10.5" AR, I had to keep the C1 fairly close to the barrel of the gun. So I'd need a shorter mag or taller sandbags. On some of the pistol/PCCs I could keep the C1 on the bench and shoot from a slightly higher elevation.
And when syncing my sessions to my iPhone, not all the sessions would back up at the same time. I'd be reviewing the data at home and noticed some of the data was missing. I then re-synced with the C1 and they'd slowly trickle in. This is after syncing numerous times at the range. It wasn't a chronological issue - it was random sessions and not the earliest/latest ones that weren't syncing.
Also navigating the stored sessions on the phone is a bit cumbersome as it doesn't show pertinent data (Avg, ES/SD) at a glance, so I have to go into each session - unless I am doing something wrong. I could always go to the C1 itself and review the sessions or perhaps export to CSV and email to myself.
Overall the Garmin C1 is great. It saves a LOT of room/weight and I don't have any reservations about using it more often to check muzzle velocities versus the cumbersome magnetospeed or Labradar.
