I am writing this evening to share my thoughts and opinion on the Athlon Rangecraft Chronograph. I fell in love with mine right from the very first time I used it and was super excited to review it, but thought I would wait and use it for a couple months to see if any problems might show up. Well I have been using mine now for about three months and am very pleased to say that my unit has worked flawlessly for me from the first time I used it until now.
I have owned several Caldwell and Pro Chrono chrongraphs in the past with the "sun shields" and grew to hate them due to their annoying "error" codes that constantly pop up, or they just don't read a shot at all. Eventually I got one of the Fx radar chronographs that hangs on the end of my barrel, but it has to be connected to my phone and had an annoying habit of dropping the bluetooth connection, and would get wonky if in the hot sun too long on. Also every one of these chrono's I previosly owned were total battery hogs!
This new Athlon chrongraph is so easy to use! I just set in on my folding table and point it at the target and shoot my air rifles, and it picks up every shot without ever giving me any dreaded error messages or missed picking up a shot! I can set it on the front of the table by the muzzle or set it all the way back by my trigger hand and it still picks up every shot perfectly...so it doesn't matter where I set it as long as it's pointed at the target it picks up the shot. Also I used it all summer in the HOT FLORIDA SUN on days that were 97 degrees, and yet it kept working flawlessly every time! It also has it's own rechargeable battery that lasts a long, long, long time...so I was able to forget about contantly replacing batteries and hoping I remembered to bring spares!
The menu is so easy to navigate that a child could use it...from the Home screen just scroll down to New Session & press OK, the select Rifle, Pistol, Archery, or AirGun & press OK, then enter the Weight of your Projectile & press OK, and now you are ready to use the screen. You may download the ballistic application to your smart phone to access all of those wonderful features, but I just use it from the basic screen and write down the velocity and Kinetic Energy of my slugs or pellets on a simple tablet for comparisons.
In the past I have reviewed quite a few things here on AGN and to my chagrin those reviews were rather long winded and overly detailed...so I am making this one short and to the point, which is that I give this new Rangecraft Chronograph my highest recommendation of Five Stars! This thing just works! I believe it's the best chrono on the market today and has the best price of them all. So forget the rest and get the best... you will be thrilled with the performance and delighted with the price!
All the best, Chuck
P.s. Here is a link for you to check it...https://athlonoptics.com/product/rangecraft-velocity-pro-radar-chronograph/
I have owned several Caldwell and Pro Chrono chrongraphs in the past with the "sun shields" and grew to hate them due to their annoying "error" codes that constantly pop up, or they just don't read a shot at all. Eventually I got one of the Fx radar chronographs that hangs on the end of my barrel, but it has to be connected to my phone and had an annoying habit of dropping the bluetooth connection, and would get wonky if in the hot sun too long on. Also every one of these chrono's I previosly owned were total battery hogs!
This new Athlon chrongraph is so easy to use! I just set in on my folding table and point it at the target and shoot my air rifles, and it picks up every shot without ever giving me any dreaded error messages or missed picking up a shot! I can set it on the front of the table by the muzzle or set it all the way back by my trigger hand and it still picks up every shot perfectly...so it doesn't matter where I set it as long as it's pointed at the target it picks up the shot. Also I used it all summer in the HOT FLORIDA SUN on days that were 97 degrees, and yet it kept working flawlessly every time! It also has it's own rechargeable battery that lasts a long, long, long time...so I was able to forget about contantly replacing batteries and hoping I remembered to bring spares!
The menu is so easy to navigate that a child could use it...from the Home screen just scroll down to New Session & press OK, the select Rifle, Pistol, Archery, or AirGun & press OK, then enter the Weight of your Projectile & press OK, and now you are ready to use the screen. You may download the ballistic application to your smart phone to access all of those wonderful features, but I just use it from the basic screen and write down the velocity and Kinetic Energy of my slugs or pellets on a simple tablet for comparisons.
In the past I have reviewed quite a few things here on AGN and to my chagrin those reviews were rather long winded and overly detailed...so I am making this one short and to the point, which is that I give this new Rangecraft Chronograph my highest recommendation of Five Stars! This thing just works! I believe it's the best chrono on the market today and has the best price of them all. So forget the rest and get the best... you will be thrilled with the performance and delighted with the price!
All the best, Chuck
P.s. Here is a link for you to check it...https://athlonoptics.com/product/rangecraft-velocity-pro-radar-chronograph/
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