Shooting Chrony Beta Chronograph, Blue

This is a small, extremely handy and quite serviceable chronograph. It is quick to set up, seems quite accurate, and it reads .17 cal pellet velocities with ease. You can not be a serious airgunner without a chronograph, and this one fills the bill nicely.

The operation of this little machine is not intuitive, and the instruction manual is not a lot of help. If you bumble around with it for a while, it will come to you. Have faith.

If it is good enough for Tyler and Tom, it is good enough for me.....

What a piece of junk! Error message after error message. Difficult to use interface. Shot string limited to 10 shots. Lousy, unfriendly customer service. What a mistake this was. I replaced with a ProChrono Digital model. Much better! Easy to use. Rarely ever an error message. Up to 99 shots per shot string! Bluetooth connectivity to your smart phone. Buy a ProChrono Digital mode...they're made in the USA!

Compact unit , easy to use despite poor instructions.

Like others that reviewed this product needs better step-by-step instructions.

This does not fit in the padded case very well , not enough room for everything once you add the printer , the cables etc. Im using a range bag.

Very compact and relatively easy to use with basic functions. Setting up six strings was pretty easy as was sending them to permanent storage.

Have a step-by-step users guide.

Basic functions were pretty easy. After putting info into permanent storage, I had a hard time clearing and deleting permanent storage. A step-by-step users guide would be nice.

Having tangible data to track the "health" of my airguns.

Not really a "change," but I will be purchasing a remote and indoor light kit.

My attempts to use my new Chrony indoors, with indoor lighting has been an utter failure so far. Outdoors, it works like a charm. It's not the most intuitive device to use, but once you get the hang of it, it is a necessity to have in your tool box if you're planning to tune your own guns!

NOT MADE IN CHINA! Our Canadian neighbors are manufacturing these. Perhaps if our government would quit choking the life out of our economic potential, we might get jobs too.

Not much. I made a heavy Plexiglas shield to cover the screen and area over the top to deflect errant shots from my pellet rifles.

The SHOOTING CHRONY BETA is a much superior unit to the COMPETITION ELECTRONICS, INC. PROCHRONO DIGITAL. I have had four of the latter so I am not comparing one bad unit to another manufacturer’s good unit. All four of the PROCHRONO DIGITAL units exhibited the same recurring and annoying tendency to miss shots. Not just the occasional shot, but at times when the light was less than optimum, they would not read regardless of how it was set it up (diffusers or no diffusers, etc.). When I got the SHOOTING CHRONY BETA, I was not sure things were going to be any better. The PROCHRONO would only read BB’s in the very best of light, so that is what I tried first for comparison. To my delight, it did not just read most of them, it read them all! Later, I discovered it was also more reliable when testing pellets in various light conditions, even reading in bright light and blue sky without the sky screens. I did find that in the dimmer light of late afternoon it wanted the sky screens removed to see the pellets, but it read them at a time that none of the others ever would. I was both thankful and miffed! I had wasted a lot of money on those former units and all along they were inferior performers, it was not just a lighting condition.

This chrono has it all. It computes and displays hi, lo, avg, extreme spread, standard distribution, shot count and individual velocities. You can pre adjust the number of shots for the stat series and the chrono will remember the data if turned off. Holds data for 60 shots but is expandable.

No big deal, but add rubber feet to bottom so it won't move around on table as you shoot.

It has everything you need in one package. The manual is a little hard to follow at first.

Small, compact and very accurate

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The sensors use the day light to detect the pellet
So the device may not work low light conditions

Ease of use and setup. Small and very convenient. Clean and functional.

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I did without one for many years. Don't make this mistake!! Great tool to see performance of your guns. It helped me find a problem with my 56 today.

Small and compact. Easy for storage. Must have in order to tune your gun.

Make it usable indoors. Works great outdoor, but inside, it wont read at all. Will need to purchase separated lighting from PA in order to use inside.

Will not read indoors with ceiling lights. They will effect the senors, giving error reading. Must purchase lighting equipment from PA (about $46 extra), in order to used indoor.