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Athlon Rangecraft Compact Chrono Tested

Tried several more times, no luck. I manually noted the data from today’s sessions and then deleted today’s records. Immediately the data connected and synchronized.

Data must have got stepped on during the firmware upgrade. I’ll keep an eye on this for a bit to see if it truly is corrected.
 
The higher velocity reading vs other chronographs seems to be common feedback on the Athlon chrono.
Sounds like a chronograph that I’m glad I don’t own. First thing I did when I bought my Garmin is to shoot it up against the LR and an older Caldwell unit. All three read within 4fps, that is on the shots the LR or Caldwell didn’t miss. lol. I fired 126 rounds testing on Saturday and the Garmin didn’t miss a single shot. Flawless. And it does it in a package small enough to fit in my pocket.
Dave
 
I am in no way agreeing nor disagreeing with your statement.
I am curious, as I am sure others may be, what did you see to come to your conclusion.

We conducted this test out of curiosity and to further discussion.
Maybe I missed something but it appears on paper it's more accurate than all of them?less variation in velocity.they all looked good enough though

I don't know what did it tell you I'm not seeing?

I don't think this is quite as bad as looking for a flat spot in a node.we all see something different in that situation sometimes.lol

This looks pretty cut and dry on accuracy to me and a clear winner.now on the updates etc I guess we'll see.probably same as Garmin early on
 
Sounds like a chronograph that I’m glad I don’t own. First thing I did when I bought my Garmin is to shoot it up against the LR and an older Caldwell unit. All three read within 4fps, that is on the shots the LR or Caldwell didn’t miss. lol. I fired 126 rounds testing on Saturday and the Garmin didn’t miss a single shot. Flawless. And it does it in a package small enough to fit in my pocket.
Dave
None of that showed in this test that I can see?
 
Maybe I missed something but it appears on paper it's more accurate than all of them?less variation in velocity.they all looked good enough though

I don't know what did it tell you I'm not seeing?

I don't think this is quite as bad as looking for a flat spot in a node.we all see something different in that situation sometimes.lol

This looks pretty cut and dry on accuracy to me and a clear winner.now on the updates etc I guess we'll see.probably same as Garmin early on
Re-read my comment....
I am not questioning your conclusion.
Just trying to spur some discussion that may help others.
 
Maybe I missed something but it appears on paper it's more accurate than all of them?less variation in velocity.they all looked good enough though

I don't know what did it tell you I'm not seeing?

I don't think this is quite as bad as looking for a flat spot in a node.we all see something different in that situation sometimes.lol

This looks pretty cut and dry on accuracy to me and a clear winner.now on the updates etc I guess we'll see.probably same as Garmin early on
It's not possible to say one chronograph is more accurate than the other in these tests. We have no measurement standard to assess accuracy of the test articles. How close are the numbers to the true velocity? We don't know. All we can do is compare one chronograph against the other. We can compare velocity differences and consistency, but not accuracy. The closest to a gold standard we had was the Oehler. But, but.... We don't know its accuracy relative to true velocity. Comparative measurement is all we can achieve.
 

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