Sunny day today, i was speed testing a hot 38 special load i have been working up. Chrono was working fine without sun screens, confirmed by shooting some baseline rounds with loads i had tested previously
Tested it through my 2 different 357 mag guns, worked great.
Had a buddy with me who has just started reloading, using a friend's setup (he lives a few hours away). He wanted to test his loads through his gun, and they had followed some lee book data with hs-6 under a 125 gr jhp bullet...mid-range 38 spl, according to him. Shooting the loads suggested that his description was about right. His gun: ruger gp100 4" barrel stainless full underlug. Damn fine gun, if i may say
So..... We couldnt get a single round fired from his gun to register on the chrony (shooting chrony f1) after about 12 shots. I got a few "err 1" and a few "err 2", but mostly blank stares from the readout. We installed the sun screens, i balanced a large piece of cardboard over the top of the two sunscreens to shade out the entire chrono...no difference.
I picked up my gp100 stainless 6" barrel, had four out of four read perfectly over the chrono, same loads. Went back and tried his 4" gp100 again.....same results...NO results....
Any ideas what is going on here? I can provide a little more info if needed