12-30-2023, 04:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-30-2023, 04:59 AM by lazyengineer.)
Heh, today my FedEx driver on attempt number 2 did what I suspected he would do - He dropped it on the front porch and ran like Hell. So much for Signature Required! Ah well, at least I got it. So I had chance to run up to the range today and fire a few hundred rounds with it. A few repeated items everyone else has said.
1- this this is REDICULOUSLY Small and Easy. It literally the size of a thick set of playing cards, and the bipod is tiny as well. It's a sweet little rig
2- a few simple reliable consumer grade product. Turn it on, point it sort of down range, and let it go.
3- The interface is a million times better than the antiquated LabRadar interface, but also a bit limited. the processing power and speed and write speed in this rig is literally 1000 times faster. That's not hyperbole. My Labradar would take 5 seconds at times before it would track the shot, calculate the MV, and write it to memory, and then display it. This guy does it instantly, in probably about 5 hundredths of a second after the last track is read from the bullet in flight - it's so much faster.
4- The App kind of sucks. The link connection is FAST and reliable. Instant, but you don't actually see your shot numbers until you push buttons on the unit and proceed to the next string; you don't see them live displayed on the app. Also, you can't use the app/phone to progress to the next series. And worst of all, as noted, you have to have the latest modern smartphone to even have the app. And you have to have the App, to update the firmware of the unit, which mine had to do.
That said, the App is kind of unnecessary to use the unit in general, as the unit is steady small, right there, and easy to interface; and doesn't' mind if you move it any while interfacing - it'll still track just fine. I guess the App logs the data, but not the actual track readings, just each shot's MV that it calculated internally (from the 50 or so distance readings + time values at reading it did per shot, and then backed out the MV for each shot). I suppose you could just shoot, and then pull the readings when you get home; but really - who does that? If you are doing a bunch of strings, you really need to be recording that right there in the field along with your target information etc, to keep it all straight, and also to see if anything is amiss right there as you are going.
Anyway, all in all, this isn't just next generation over LabRadar, this is at least 2 next generations, over LabRadar. This is a flip phone in a world that was bag-phones. A very worthy upgrade. Especially since you can dump your LabRadar in any working condition for close to $400 easy, making it just a $200 upgrade. If you are going to dump your LabRadar - do so quickly, because those things are going to fall in value fast and hard, once Garmin's production catches up and they start having sales on these tiny little guys. It tracked everything. no aiming. No "ERROR No Track Collected", if not just overtly missed. None of that any more.
1- this this is REDICULOUSLY Small and Easy. It literally the size of a thick set of playing cards, and the bipod is tiny as well. It's a sweet little rig
2- a few simple reliable consumer grade product. Turn it on, point it sort of down range, and let it go.
3- The interface is a million times better than the antiquated LabRadar interface, but also a bit limited. the processing power and speed and write speed in this rig is literally 1000 times faster. That's not hyperbole. My Labradar would take 5 seconds at times before it would track the shot, calculate the MV, and write it to memory, and then display it. This guy does it instantly, in probably about 5 hundredths of a second after the last track is read from the bullet in flight - it's so much faster.
4- The App kind of sucks. The link connection is FAST and reliable. Instant, but you don't actually see your shot numbers until you push buttons on the unit and proceed to the next string; you don't see them live displayed on the app. Also, you can't use the app/phone to progress to the next series. And worst of all, as noted, you have to have the latest modern smartphone to even have the app. And you have to have the App, to update the firmware of the unit, which mine had to do.
That said, the App is kind of unnecessary to use the unit in general, as the unit is steady small, right there, and easy to interface; and doesn't' mind if you move it any while interfacing - it'll still track just fine. I guess the App logs the data, but not the actual track readings, just each shot's MV that it calculated internally (from the 50 or so distance readings + time values at reading it did per shot, and then backed out the MV for each shot). I suppose you could just shoot, and then pull the readings when you get home; but really - who does that? If you are doing a bunch of strings, you really need to be recording that right there in the field along with your target information etc, to keep it all straight, and also to see if anything is amiss right there as you are going.
Anyway, all in all, this isn't just next generation over LabRadar, this is at least 2 next generations, over LabRadar. This is a flip phone in a world that was bag-phones. A very worthy upgrade. Especially since you can dump your LabRadar in any working condition for close to $400 easy, making it just a $200 upgrade. If you are going to dump your LabRadar - do so quickly, because those things are going to fall in value fast and hard, once Garmin's production catches up and they start having sales on these tiny little guys. It tracked everything. no aiming. No "ERROR No Track Collected", if not just overtly missed. None of that any more.
4x P100