I have an old Chrony I haven't used in 20+ years, and I thought the LR unit was too big for indoor range use, which is my typical use. So when I saw the Garmin, I immediately ordered one and waited. It showed up about a week ago, and I took it to the range this past weekend.
Overall, I like it a lot. It's tiny, and sits on the shooting table without taking up much room. I went to test five factory loads I'm using in three different guns (two 9mm, two .38 Super, and one .357). That part worked like a champ. I've posted that information in the "Ammo" forum.
I did have two glitches, which I think may be related to each other. First was syncing to the app on my phone. It synced perfectly fine at home, but it just wouldn't do it at the range. The app couldn't find the unit. So I proceeded without the phone app, which was no biggie.
The second glitch was a real PITA. I was in the first string of testing, and all of a sudden I get a message on the screen that there's a software update and did I want to "Update" or "Cancel". I just thought I would cancel and do the update at home later. No, no, no, you can't do that. When I selected "Cancel", it just returned back to the prompt. After a couple of times of this, I just decided to waste some of my one hour range time to do the update. It took about five minutes to do the update, and then it was fine and I could proceed. But I do intend to contact Garmin to tell them the "Cancel" prompt doesn't work.
Later I thought about it and thought that the inability for the phone to synch with the app might be connected to the machine ultimately wanting to update the software, but I didn't get the update prompt until like 10 minutes later. Another issue I'll bring up to Garmin.
Anyway, I'm definitely a fan. The thing works and it's tiny.
Overall, I like it a lot. It's tiny, and sits on the shooting table without taking up much room. I went to test five factory loads I'm using in three different guns (two 9mm, two .38 Super, and one .357). That part worked like a champ. I've posted that information in the "Ammo" forum.
I did have two glitches, which I think may be related to each other. First was syncing to the app on my phone. It synced perfectly fine at home, but it just wouldn't do it at the range. The app couldn't find the unit. So I proceeded without the phone app, which was no biggie.
The second glitch was a real PITA. I was in the first string of testing, and all of a sudden I get a message on the screen that there's a software update and did I want to "Update" or "Cancel". I just thought I would cancel and do the update at home later. No, no, no, you can't do that. When I selected "Cancel", it just returned back to the prompt. After a couple of times of this, I just decided to waste some of my one hour range time to do the update. It took about five minutes to do the update, and then it was fine and I could proceed. But I do intend to contact Garmin to tell them the "Cancel" prompt doesn't work.
Later I thought about it and thought that the inability for the phone to synch with the app might be connected to the machine ultimately wanting to update the software, but I didn't get the update prompt until like 10 minutes later. Another issue I'll bring up to Garmin.
Anyway, I'm definitely a fan. The thing works and it's tiny.
