Shot my Chrony!!

[Charlie Sometimes]

I hit one of the uprights on a friends once- he sent it back and I paid for the repair work. I had switched pistols, and the second one shot lower, and left! It hurt me more than it bothered him.

[NVcurmudgeon]

I hit the skyscreen on my Oehler #33 twice.
First hit was fatal, second just a flesh wound.
(Hangfire + flinch was a dead center hit.)
Darn screens are $85 EACH!
It's a good unit and accurate with the 5' spacing, but it needs 6 D cells for power and is quite inconvenient to set up with 2 screen stands and the spacer bar.
One of these days I'm going to spring for a chrony with the remote readout and add some armor to the front.

Jack

Your 33 must be a twin to mine, circa 1980. When I shot the screens they were only $10 each, IIRC. The only other trouble I ever had was when I left the batteries in, and they corroded. I sent it in to Energizer and they either bought a new unit from Oehler or got Oehler to refurbish my old one like new. I have not bought a battery for any use other than Energizer since, even sometimes going to another store to find them. I also use a 5' spacing and the old 33 still works like a champ. I scrupulously remove the batteries after every use!

[NoDakJak]

That looks like the hood on my old pickup truck and yes, the prairie dog did get away. Neil

[yondering]

That looks like the hood on my old pickup truck and yes, the prairie dog did get away. Neil

You too huh? I've got a crease/hole in the hood of my Jeep from the same thing; aimed that .223 just a little too low, took me a minute to figure out where the bullet went.

[watkibe]

I thought I was the only one that still had a Chrony that old that still works ! Mine came with cardboard cutouts to shoot through, with little white plastic shades on top. Within the first year the cardboard looked like swiss cheese. I found out that as long as it isn't a bright sunny day (and sometimes even then) it works just fine without any sky screens at all.

[McLintock]

When you shoot your chrony you really need to do it right, this was a 535 gr 45-70 ahead of 25 grs of 5744; kind of did a job on it. The trigger was going away on my Browning BPCR and I kept trying to get "one more shot".

Oh well, I fixed it for $35.
McLintock

[BD]

I'm shooting over a chrony that looks a lot like Patrick's. It replaced one that looked more like McKlintocks
BD

[Potsy]

A buddy borrowed mine and buzzed the wires that go "over the top" where the chrony folds.
He sent it in, had it fixed, kept it, and bought me a new one.
Good service from chrony but there's a sick part of me that wishes he'd have been an inch lower.
130 Ballistic Tips @ 3400 through the screen that day would've been pretty cool.

[wiljen]

I nailed mine this past weekend and Chrony's trade-up program makes it only $5 more expensive to trade it in than to just buy one outright from Midway by the time you include shipping.

[troy_mclure]

i saw a rental one get shot thru with a 300rum, that thing went flying almost 20' strait up.

i think its still at the range on display.

[HeavyMetal]

Man I am so glad I built a "Range Holder" for mine!

Basically 8 inches wide and just a touch longer than my Chrony, angled steel plate welded on the front and has a support in the back holding it up if it ever gets hit to deflect boolits up and away from the chrony!

A piece of mirror siliconed into the Ramped under side of the steel plat and a bicycle rear view mirror mounted on the side acts as a "periscope view" and I can see it from the bench with my spotting scope and it reads directly, not backwards, because I use two mirrors!

Never had it hit because of the plate, looks like new for the same reason. Used plumbing pipe to make a stand and it all screws together in three minutes at the range.

Surely somebody thought about a shielding set up besides me?

[ronterry]

Sorry no photo's but I shot my target stand yesterday? About 1" above the ground at 50YDS. A major league flinch with my 458 Lott. A little over 3" of wood did not slow it down none. (The stand is fine btw) Oh I killed a chrony about four years ago. 10mm straight through the center! It was one of those all in one ?Chronymaster? Great Chrony BTW! Have a Beta Master now, which isn't as accurate but very scalable with printers and what nots make up for it.

[shooting on a shoestring]

I've killed 2 skyscreens from my 35P ($35 each). A really bad shot in the lane next to me shot one, makes 3 down and counting.

[HORNET]

The older Chrony"s aren't happy if you center the readout screen with a 410459 at full throttle either. They do offer good deals on trading in & upgrading. Rebuilt ones are fairly cheap if you want to buy a spare while yours is broke....or so I hear

[eveready]

I set up a target, fire one round then set my Chrony up in front of the target. Gives me an aiming point so I don't shoot the Chrony.

[Shooter6br]

I got a Pact no 1 with BIG sky screens Gave my Chrony away

[Shiloh]

Put a 220 grain round nose soft point through a red F-1 Chrony several years ago.
That was from the .30-40 Krag. Should have taken pics. Traded the remains in for the blue Chrony Alpha model.

Shiloh

[Shiloh]

Put a 220 grain round nose soft point through a red F-1 Chrony several years ago.
That was from the .30-40 Krag. Should have taken pics. Traded the remains in for the blue Chrony Alpha model.

Shiloh

[Dark Helmet]

You mean you only shot just one?

[72coupe]

I was trying to test some 80 grain sierras through my service rifle AR from prone position with the Chrony sitting on the ground. I didn't realize my prone position was as low as it apperently was on that day.

The 80 grainer mad a streak across the very top of both the front and rear sensors. Chrony said it was not repairable but sold me a new one at a large discount.