Precision Rifle Gear SG Pulse Pro (level, timer, dope)

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Surprised to see there's not already thread for this.

New product announced at Shot Show, but looks to be available soon. Pre-orders are starting now.

Not sure how useful the digital dope card will be, but the combination timer and level will be awesome, especially with the remote to start the timer.

I wasn't convinced I needed a timer and wasn't ready to pay $250 for just a crush it timer and then need to mount another thing on the rifle, but the combination for $330 (extra for remote) looks quite nice.

My only concern is that they will have packed too many features into this and it will be hard to use. I find my SG Pulse has was too much crap built in, and the app is kind of a pain to use.
Hopefully the timer and level are well thought out and I can disable all the other features.
 
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has anyone seen a sg pulse pro in the wild yet? Looks like they have been shipping.

I have one pre-ordered through paramount tactical.

I just got a demo unit

they are not bad, smaller in person that they look in pictures

They are little bit of a pain to turn off,
but turning on and starting the timer is no problem
 
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Got one this week. From the level standpoint pretty similar use with respect to the old model. Next, see how it can replace the crushit timer. One less piece of battery operated equipment on the rifle is a good starting point. The timer programming through the app is sweet too.
If it will be possible to import kestrel data in the dope card it will be golden imho.
 

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When I was checking out the new SG pulse, it looked like you have to scroll or manually push something on it to change your dope. Just seeing if someone can confirm that or not.
 
When I was checking out the new SG pulse, it looked like you have to scroll or manually push something on it to change your dope. Just seeing if someone can confirm that or not.
Yes the Pulse Pro only shows the dope for one target at time. You either need to push a button on the pulse or push the button on the remote to switch the to dope for a different target.

I also got the remote and ocular bundle. I will say I'm a little disappointed in the wire management with the pulse pro. The wire has to come off the pulse to the left. So for a right handed shooter the wire protrudes from the pulse to the left. I was not very fond of the so I didn't use the remote or ocular on the pulse pro at the match Sunday.
 
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That is what I am afraid of. This tells me I will not order one because that reason. I already have a timer and level. If I have to manually push to change the dope is more than what I want to deal with when shooting a stage. My focus will be on the fundamentals and the order of shooting the targets. If I have to push something to get my dope is a recipe for disaster.
 
At this point my main focus is to consolidate it as integrated level and stage timer.
Since the thing has the ability to detect shots I expect that the dope scrolling/ stage recording function will improve with the software as it hopefully develops.
 
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Yes the Pulse Pro only shows the dope for one target at time. You either need to push a button on the pulse or push the button on the remote to switch the to dope for a different target.

I also got the remote and ocular bundle. I will say I'm a little disappointed in the wire management with the pulse pro. The wire has to come off the pulse to the left. So for a right handed shooter the wire protrudes from the pulse to the left. I was not very fond of the so I didn't use the remote or ocular on the pulse pro at the match Sunday.
Im seeing the same issue, plus the wire is short.
 
Got one this week. From the level standpoint pretty similar use with respect to the old model. Next, see how it can replace the crushit timer. One less piece of battery operated equipment on the rifle is a good starting point. The timer programming through the app is sweet too.
If it will be possible to import kestrel data in the dope card it will be golden imho.
How are you activating the timer?
With the remote, or buttons on the timer?
 
How are you activating the timer?
With the remote, or buttons on the timer?
The timer function on the Pulse Pro is customized on the app, and since I do not have their timer
it's activated by the central button on the level body itself. My understanding is that can be activated with the external timer (the sg-timer-2) also, but I can't confirm it atm
 
Wires for occular and control knob are way too short , and connector sticks out to the left ,not to practical for right handed shooter so cable managment it less than optimal.

APP is still a bit in tatters but i reckon that will be fixed soon
 
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Wires for occular and control knob are way too short , and connector sticks out to the left ,not to practical for right handed shooter so cable managment it less than optimal.

APP is still a bit in tatters but i reckon that will be fixed soon

Damn, unfortunate to hear.
 
Damn, unfortunate to hear.
For now buy just the device its still best level timer combo on the market ,i think cables will be changed and app is constantly upgraded

Playing with a M lock mount ,that is just slip fit for the knob ,still couple of variations to go , and mount behind the red dot on the dive board seems to be best for me, tried the one below the scope but this one works out better

Would need cable longer by cca 80-100mm then i would just design an over barrel bridge with the knob built in.Sadly cable reaches only to end of the objective

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So I got mine last week and I've played around with it some.

The level and shot timer work great and are the main reason I chose to buy the Pulse Pro. Having more than one light makes it easier to know which way to tilt the gun than trying to remember the red/green/blue color scheme. The display made it really easy to level my gun and mount a new scope. I also really like that I can change the tone of the timer. Currently, I have this set up to increase the frequency of the tone at every beep and two beeps for the last alert.

The dope card is OK, but it would be nice if it interfaced with ballistic solvers like GeoBallistics or Applied Ballistics/Kestrel, so you didn't have to copy the data from those apps/devices into another app. The text is small, and it's too easy to get targets mixed up. You can use the remote to cycle through the targets but it only goes one direction with the remote.


You have to use the buttons on the Pulse to go backwards. I still need a lot more time behind the gun before I try running the dope card in a match. For the foreseeable future, I'll still be writing dope cards out by hand.

The biggest disappointment is the remote. The button/button housing is much larger than it needs to be. This makes putting it somewhere convenient difficult. The rubber band mounting for the ocular lights makes sense, but on the remote, it's less than ideal. The width of the button is nearly twice what it needs to be just to accommodate the rubber band. It would have been nice to be able to attach it to an M-LOK slot on my MDT chassis. The length of the wires is also on the short side. It would have been really nice if the remote were wireless. I'll likely be 3D printing some type of mount soon.

The button isn't very tactile. It took me a while to realize that my button wasn't defective, and that's just how it operates. It's a long press/release to start/restart the timer and a quick press/release to cycle through targets on the dope card. It may be in the settings, and I haven't found it, but the timer doesn't beep to let me know it's started. If I can't find a setting for this, I'm going to try setting an alert at the par time or 1 second after.

The magnetic connection for the remote/ocular could stand to be stronger. It's too easy to knock this connection off. The good news is that the Pulse Pro continues to work without interruption, as it does without the remote/ocular. I haven't ran it fully dead yet, but when doing the initial charge from ~50% it seemed to charge much faster than my original pulse which was nice.

I should also note that the pic mount, when placed on my rifle, was not square to the housing of the Pulse Pro. When placing Pulse Pro flat on my pic rail without a mount (just placing it on the rail) the Pulse was level, but when mounting it to the same rail with the pic mount the level read off by some amount (can't remember exactly but less than 2 degrees) without moving the gun (confirmed with a second pulse pro placed in a different location on the gun. It's not a huge deal since you can recalibrate it, but if you didn't know, it could introduce some error.
 
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@RubiconJoey Thank you for the review and details on operating. Out of curiosity did you weight the entire Pulse Pro setup? Thank you
I didn't, but your post had me curious so here you go. First picture is of the remote and ocular light. Second of the pro with picatinny mount. Last photo is of the original Pulse with picatinny mount. All weights are in grains.
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As many of us sugested to SG ,make the timer with large letters for those of us that will not use the dope card

It seems one of the new updates ,

*on the picts seems one of the beta units with black buttons and right sided cable + a holder bracket for it .
Its beyond me how we ended up with left conector in the production units
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As many of us sugested to SG ,make the timer with large letters for those of us that will not use the dope card

It seems one of the new updates ,

*on the picts seems one of the beta units with black buttons and right sided cable + a holder bracked for it .
Its beyond me how we ended up with left conector in the production units
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Mine came with the cable holder sandwiched between the mount and display, but still with the left exit cable which is a headscratcher.
 
As many of us sugested to SG ,make the timer with large letters for those of us that will not use the dope card

It seems one of the new updates ,

*on the picts seems one of the beta units with black buttons and right sided cable + a holder bracked for it .
Its beyond me how we ended up with left conector in the production units
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I knew I had seen the connector coming off the right! I tried to place it that way and thought maybe I was doing something wrong as the connections look symmetrical.
Just printed an MLOK mount at work and will be testing placement this evening.
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I knew I had seen the connector coming off the right! I tried to place it that way and thought maybe I was doing something wrong as the connections look symmetrical.
Just printed an MLOK mount at work and will be testing placement this evening.
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Honestly i am tempted to cut away the original mounting point as i just am not satisfied by the form factor . Its jist to wide to sit in the middle of an m-lock slot without riding the bags .

Like you going for Mlock mount but will likely trim away the mount and use double sided tape to fix it instead of the guide surfaces

Maybe a chicken wing with recesed knob as it going to ride a bag sooner than later
 
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Honestly i am tempted to cut away the original mounting point as i just am not satisfied by the formfactor .

Like you going for Mlock mount but will likely trim away the mount and use double sided tape to fix it instead of the guide surfaces
I had the same thought, but decided against it for now. If I'm not happy with the MLOK mount I might start hacking away at it. I've got half a mind to splice in my own button and housing, becuase the current one kinda sucks.
 
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Here's how I currently have it setup with my MLOK mount. The Pulse is mounted before my Area 419 one piece mount on the left side of the pic rail. The remote is on the right side so I can squeeze it while holding the rifle in my right hand with my thumb. I usually hold the rifle with the pistol grip, so this will require a slight chnage to grab it under the arca rail.

I'll be printing some wire management clips and adding some form of retention to the remote mount. I had planned to use double sided tape to stick the remote to the mount, but the more I think about it, the less I like the idea.

I can also confirm that an alert set for the par time does not work, but setting an alert for 0.1s less than par does work.

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I ordered the master kit , which comes with ocular and remote , because i thought it will give me optionality .
But both the ocular and remote are connected together if you use one you have to use the other
If you connect the ocular then can level indicator will only show in the ocular, which is now very disappointing, i wanted to see both but i cant
It even says so on their tutorial
So now if don’t want to use the ocular to see the level indicator on their tutorial SG Pro , i have to lose the remote or buy the remote without the ocular ..
i like the device a lot , but they have some awkward design choices for me at least