Break Barrel Chronograph Day, or perhaps more accurately radar day.

[Scriv]

I ran 60 pellets for Data today. The Garmin clocked every shot. No misses. I never achieved that with any Chrono previously. Easy business. I like it.

 

[Hoppalong Doc]

Just to clear this up for anyone following along: the Labradar LX and the original Labradar do not require the external mic for every gun. The mic is only for guns that don’t produce enough muzzle blast to trigger the radar—mainly small‑bore PCPs, low‑power airguns, rimfire, and some suppressed rifles. Big‑bores and anything with normal muzzle blast don’t need it at all.

Labradar states this directly on their Low Noise Trigger page:“The Low Noise Trigger is used for guns that do not discharge sufficient muzzle blast to trigger the radar. This adapter should only be used on Air Guns, Rimfire cartridges that have little or no muzzle blast, and some suppressors.”

Link: https://mylabradar.com/products/low-noise-trigger (mylabradar.com in Bing)

Hoppalong no me digas nada por

 

[Hoppalong Doc]

Just to clear this up for anyone following along: the Labradar LX and the original Labradar do not require the external mic for every gun. The mic is only for guns that don’t produce enough muzzle blast to trigger the radar—mainly small‑bore PCPs, low‑power airguns, rimfire, and some suppressed rifles. Big‑bores and anything with normal muzzle blast don’t need it at all.

Labradar states this directly on their Low Noise Trigger page:“The Low Noise Trigger is used for guns that do not discharge sufficient muzzle blast to trigger the radar. This adapter should only be used on Air Guns, Rimfire cartridges that have little or no muzzle blast, and some suppressors.”

Link: https://mylabradar.com/products/low-noise-trigger (mylabradar.com in Bing)

Hoppalong no me digas nada

 

[Scriv]

Ok, I've repeated some tests on the HW30S. It appears that they are statistically accurate with the exception of the h&n ftt. Some numbers showed even better with the Garmin. Obviously this pellet was better.

H&N FTT 8.64 gn (452)

Ave. 637.1
SD. 2.6
Ext. 8.6
Fpe 7.6

The air was colder, by about 15°F.

I think that it's noteworthy that I got the Garmin out at three different times during the day just because it was so easy to do, and the shooting bench at redneck acres is about 15 feet from my favorite chair.

 

[Scriv]

Also, I am amazed at the SD turned in by this spring piston rifle. I didn't really think that it was possible. AoA tested with a 7gn to give me a good velocity, and I tried another which wasn't much of an improvement. The 8 gn pellet is where this gun is happy.
More accuracy testing is warranted. The FTT and barracuda 8 turned some very consistent, low numbers.

 

[Danman]

Also, I am amazed at the SD turned in by this spring piston rifle. I didn't really think that it was possible. AoA tested with a 7gn to give me a good velocity, and I tried another which wasn't much of an improvement. The 8 gn pellet is where this gun is happy.
More accuracy testing is warranted. The FTT and barracuda 8 turned some very consistent, low numbers.

Absolutely! I am continually blown away by the spread/deviation from the TX200. 100% rivals any quality pcp. Mind blowing. I have yet to properly chrono my HW50, as my chrono requires more patience lol, but I expect it to be fairly consistent too.

 

[Scriv]

Absolutely! I am continually blown away by the spread/deviation from the TX200. 100% rivals any quality pcp. Mind blowing. I have yet to properly chrono my HW50, as my chrono requires more patience lol, but I expect it to be fairly consistent too.

So I went at it this morning. A balmy 70° F at the range. A few observations. I had one stray shot that doubled the group size for h&n. It was either shooter error, or possibly a bad pellet. I ran numbers with, and without this shot simply because I didn't think that it was fair to h&n. Secondly, I feel that either pellet, in this rifle will make no difference once you leave the bench. That statement could arguably be made of most combinations when you admit that the shooter is the weak link more times than not.

 

[Scriv]

For those that have been following along, I ran the .20 pellets through the Garmin today With the HW30N. A couple of interesting things happened. My data on the H&N FTT was identical to the data that AoA recorded with their chrono. The velocity went up (getting broken in), but the SD and extreme spread were the same. The data for the JSB 13.73 pellet doubled. The velocity was nearly the same with the Garmin as compared to the Lab Radar, but the SD and extreme spread doubled.