You were doing loading at the range so you needed SD right then and there?
Why are you manually enter anything? Perhaps you are not too familiar with Excel and csv files. The Garmin app outputs a csv file that you can email from your phone to your home PC/Laptop/whatever you have Excel on and open it directly with Excel. It will look just like an Excel file when opened and your data will all be there.
If you were synched to the App, and deleted the shot in the App, it would have done it for you correctly. But you are correct about the unit. I was one of the first here to point out the error, and believe it or not, took a lot of flak for “whining”. All I did was say, “Hey, if you delete a shot from a string, it will recalculate the ES but not the SD.” Another member then clued me in that the App would do it correctly, and it did.
Dude, right out of the box on the original release the Garmin was SO much better than the LR it wasn’t even a fair comparison. It just worked, with no crutches like the LR needed (I ran a LR for 7 years). The problem only arose recently with a buggy update which it appears they fixed quickly.
Preach, my brother in Christ.
You don't shoot anything that actually matters. Benchresters load at the range all the time.
you're right, I didn't even think of that, apparently I like to do things the hard way LOL
Funny stuff!! Lol
Magnetospeed—the ol' "fix bayonet, sir" solution we used to strap to barrels.
Oh yeah, that contraption. I just couldn’t get myself to buy either a Magnetospeed or LR after reading all of the horror stories.
Funny thing happened on Thursday (the very first day I used the Garmin). Had a fellow drill me about all the advantages of the Labradar over the Garmin. Well, I have plenty of experience with a Labradar as several years ago, my son and I went halves on one. It lives at his house.
Credit were due: It was awesome compared to the competition when it was first released. But times have changed "biggly", and they did not.
with its headless corpse which chanting incoherently.
it doesn’t take the smallest amount of field abuse or it’s broken. (Ask lowlight)
This ^^ is absolutely true. LR was the first and only affordable retail doppler chrono for shooters (compared to, for example, the parent company's $200k professional radars). And it was sufficient to get the data needed for load dev, dope cards, etc.
Having been burned on the first version they can suck my balls Kyle...
I had the MS3 before the LR came out. I ditched it immediately upon trying the LR. Yes, you need external battery pack, external trigger for suppressors, but I really never had much trouble out of it. No stupid strap, and no change in POI or group size were awesome. Of course, I only shoot on a private range, alone or with one other shooter alternating strings, so never any interference. I can see where it might be a pain at a public range.For a range? For random people to use who have no idea the voodoo required??
I chose the magnetospeed. Not perfect by a long-shot but simple and it worked. For me it was a major step up from the old style shoot through type.
As much as I geek out over ballistics and reloading, I just could never justify the expense, hassle, bad customer service and fragility of the lab radar.
No one bitched more about that stupid strap system on the magnetospeed than me, but in the end, it was a damn sight more reliable and simpler than the lab radar. I could loan it to someone with 5 mins of instruction and they were off to the races.
The minute the Garmin came out and the reviews were in, I pounced like a fat kid on cake!
I have to say when I first acquired a labradar in 2019 I thought I was in high cotton, till I started shooting suppressed. Then the recoil triggers came out, and it was pretty consistent. Their app crashed repeatedly, the thing had old ass Bluetooth firmware they refused to update, I agree LR basically put it out, zero further support.
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