Found At The Range Today.................

If you do enough chronographing, you'll eventually shoot a chronograph or a component of a chronograph regardless of how careful you are. If you only chronograph a thousand or so rounds a year, it may never happen.
If I manage to shoot my Garmin, just take my guns away and put me in a home!
 
Tell him not to feel too bad.. My one nephew's kid isn't a heavy thinker. He managed to shoot TWO holes in the hood of his Ramcharger, one right after the other. If brains were money and it cost 50 cents to go around the world he couldn't get out of sight
When I was a kid we had a local, small town cop, who was in a car chase with a bad guy, driving and shooting, empty his revolver into the hood of his patrol car. I don't know if the car survived the shooting, but the cop never lived it down.
 
I had another friend that decades ago had a VW Beetle with the cloth retractable sunroof.
He rested his deer rifle on the roof and the muzzle blast shredded the cloth
 
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It happens. At least the poor guy can quantum leap forward getting a new Garmin.
 
I have managed to hit mine twice. .38 reloads. Still works.

Maybe 3rd time will be a charm...
 
Two semi pro dim bulbs I knew were driving down the road in an old Ford pickup. One had an 06 with the muzzle on the floor. Bulb one "is it loaded?" Bulb 2," nope" as he pulls the trigger and KERBOOM. Missed the motor and tranny, but did a number on the exhaust, but at that point neither could her very well anyway.
 
My friend shot my Caldwell chronograph in my backyard, but with his compound bow no less.
Literally hit bulls-eye dead center in the the screen. I had it set up and told him to wait I was going to get a clamp on laser to put on his knocked arrow to be sure of his arrows path as the case with most bow sights are mounted quite a bit higher than the arrow rest. This laser was designed for compound bow set up and had a level for both vert and horz planes and it to set arrow rests level and lumb as well as check for cam lean.
He didn't wait
He was laughing until I said that'll be $200 please.
 
Oh, I've seen two :( Mine seemed to be particulatly attracted to the 9mm bore size, specifically 9.3 x 57 and then 9mm. The first disaster I remember; the second has left an indelible blank on my memory.
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I managed to get the same results with my first Chrony. I do not remember what rifle I was shooting at the time, But I had used that old Chrony for five or so years without incident. At least it forced me to go buy a better Chrony than the basic unit I had been using. All the old one did was read out the MV, shot by shot. I still have the newer Chrony with the statistical capability, but haven't used it for about three years. I can say nothing bad about the Chronys, they always worked fine for me, just slow.
 
My club has spotting scopes we loan out to anyone, usually they are worn and replaced by a new one and the owner donates them to the club. Once you know what you're dealing with you know which ones to recommend to someone looking for a working scope. We also have other pieces of equipment including an older Ohler type chrono like the ones pictured above. They are loaned out to club members only and the rule is you break it you replace it. One of the guys was fairly knew to use, read the manual and was doing OK when all of a sudden those of us at the other end hear an odd sound followed by some irritated cussing. Didn't take a genius to figure out what happened, he blew both ends out one at entrance the other entire back of the unit. He was a good sort and replaced it but not without making a few new words up.
 
Chrony used to rebuild or replace them for you if you put a hole through it. Came back with a little sticker that was rather humorous. Don’t ask me how I know! I don’t know if they still perform that service but it’s worth a call.
 
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