Reviews & Ratings for Athlon Optics Rangecraft Velocity Pro Radar Chronograph, 2.4 in Display — 120 reviews — Page 1

This is a great little unit! Reading the manual for a few minutes I was up and running. Major league helpful reloading ammo.

I just purchased this after an old "Shooting Crony" F1 died. I like measuring my reloads when working up a new load. For me it was always a struggle to get the regular old style chronograph to work reliably. At my range the shooing benches are under a roof and I am sure the lack of light would play havoc on the old optical chronograph. My only issue was purely my fault. When downloading the sessions to the Phone app, you must "end" the session first. I was having issues until i figured it out. The app has a lot of stuff for long range shooters in it; that i am currently not using. (right now i am only working with pistol rounds) I was able to chronograph a few hundred rounds factory and reloaded quickly; download each type of round to my phone without hassle and compare all of the data when I got home. Sure easy.

This radar chronograph ease of use is worlds above the optical type with the diffusers. You have to assemble these diffusers on sight and disassemble after use as they are rather fragile.
As well you have to be careful when firing to ensure the projectile/bullet passes between the diffuser rods to get a reading. As well, the chronograph itself has to be placed downrange of the shooting position exposing it to possible impact with a projectile.
The Rangecraft is a compact small device that you place beside your rifle on the shooting table or beside you with whatever thing you are trying to track velocity, just point it down range on its tripod and the device uses radar to deliver the velocity data to the device screen.
Price is 4 times that of the optical chronographs but very competitive compared to the comparable Garmin. In fact you see Garmin came out with an upgraded model to match the Athlon and their price is even higher than their original model.

Worked as expected, and cheaper than a Garmin. easy to setup and easy to use, much better than my old chrony. with the screens and much smaller and easy to carry and setup.

Not sure yet what the drawback is of saving $100 in getting this over the Garmin, but it is not obvious to me. Haven't bothered with the apps of either brand and use as standalone devices to plug data into other apps/software. At worst, I've seen in person, and online, a 1-5fps difference between this and the Garmin and not often on the high end of difference. Mostly they both showed within 1-2 fps of one another. Even if the Garmin is more accurate to 1-2 fps consistently, it does not justify the price difference.

Worth every penny
Very easy to use
The app is also a nice bonus

Worked well. So much easier than old chronograph, will definitely use more often.

Have been able to use the chronograph twice and it's worked great so far. Immediately syncd to the app, kept records of the session, and was accurate. Have seen some negative reviews compared to the Garmin but im not seeing aby negatives.

Incredibly easy to set up and use. Plus it rarely misses a shot.

I recently started working up some subsonic loads for .338 ARC and .357 magnum and this has been absolutely essential. Two of my friends had it before me and after getting hands on I have zero doubt this will serve my purposes as well as the Garmin I was looking at originally.