New Garmin xero C1 Pro Game changer

Received my Garmin Xero C1 today. Ordered it off the Garmin website. I gotta say for that kinda money it should ship in something better than a ULINE bubble wrap envelope.

Could someone answer this one simple question? Did your purchase show up with the Garmin box plastic seal wrapped or did it have a seal at all? Just wondering.

Pelican 1060 solid black with a 1062 foam insert should be the ticket for a case.
 
sask378 said:
Could someone answer this one simple question? Did your purchase show up with the Garmin box plastic seal wrapped or did it have a seal at all? Just wondering.
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The ones we sell aren't plastic wrapped and no seal if I remember correctly.
 
Got my Xero out to the range yesterday, couldn't be happier. We have steel tubes set up on our rifle range (CFO requirement due to encroaching residential developments, I guess), maybe 24" diameter. Labradars don't like them, but the Xero worked great. It tells you it wants the unit between 5"-15" behind and the same distance beside the muzzle, and it seems like that's pretty crucial. It missed a couple of shots until I got that dialed in, and then once I knew to pay attention to that it was flawless. It picked up 9mm, .22LR, 45 Colt, 6mm Creed, and some other mid length centerfire some guy was shooting, through the tubes all flawless once I made sure the placement was within the range it wants. Velocities were consistently about 1% slower than a magnetospeed we compared it to, for whatever reason (Magnetospeed reading right at the muzzle, Xero reading slightly downrange? Calibration of one or the other? Who knows). It then picked up 9mm, .50AE, and 460 mag handgun perfectly, didn't miss a single shot. Handgun velocities compared to Labradar were all very close (Within 5ish FPS)

One drawback though, is when it did miss a couple of shots right at the start of the day (I assume due to poor placement), it doesn't tell you. You just really have to pay attention to the round count/velocity, and make sure they change from shot to shot. It'll do the sorta loading screen as if it registered a shot, but then just defaults back to the previous shot #/velocity, without letting you know it didn't get anything for the last shot. Hoping that's something they change in the future.
 
I used mine for the first time yesterday. My first chrono. The first time it missed a shot, I didn't pay attention to the shot counter. We were taking notes in our reloading book. So I note the same speed as the previous shot, odd! A bit surprised, is our balance that good? I think, can't be. Look at how many empty brass in the case (wife was shooting) and look at the counter on the Garmin. Ooops, we've got a missed shot. The Garmin never said anything. Only thing It said out of the ordinary is that the unit moved too much. That happened when I took it to have a close look at the screen.
I've read that if it is attached to the rifle, it can detect too much recoil and error out. I've got to test that next time.

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Thought about this a bit more. No way the Garmin can figure out about a missed shot. How can it know that a bullet went out the barrel if it doesn't even see it. It could hear a bang, but that could be from a different shooter.
 
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The first price increase has shown up. Prophet River has them listed for $829 now. A 3.6% price increase. I wonder how much higher they will go? Garmin Canada still list them for $799.99 on their site.

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With only the 2 companies in the picture I doubt prices will adjust one bit.

I have an original Labradar but when I replace it I'll buy the Garmin.

Garmin has always had good support for their other products I have owned/used. Labradar, so so.
 
I Dont Care About You said:
I don't think that word means what you think it means?
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it does
Paul_T said:
With only the 2 companies in the picture I doubt prices will adjust one bit.

I have an original Labradar but when I replace it I'll buy the Garmin.

Garmin has always had good support for their other products I have owned/used. Labradar, so so.
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we shall see
I'm in no hurry to buy one while having the optical one and the magnetic one
I just want one
 
legi0n said:
it does
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Where is the "competition?"

Let's assume the Labradar has the exact same performance. The price is the same (to the dollar), but the Labradar is bigger and arguably uglier. Labradar burned a great deal of customer good will in the past.

There is ZERO competition here.
 
Lol, the only complaint I have with the Garmin Xero is it's so small that its easy to misplace...I should have got a bright orange case instead of the black one.:(
 
I Dont Care About You said:
Where is the "competition?"

Let's assume the Labradar has the exact same performance. The price is the same (to the dollar), but the Labradar is bigger and arguably uglier. Labradar burned a great deal of customer good will in the past.

There is ZERO competition here.
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the competition comes when one of the contenders wants to sell more to pad the quarterly or yearly figures.
but you know that already.
let's revisit this after Christmas 'cause now it's just idle talk
 
Finally, I tried mine out today. I shoot gophers, sit on a little folder seat and rest my rifle on a camera tripod with a "V" notch mounted to rest the forearm. So, I haven't got a table to put the wee Garmin on, and I thought it would work good to mount it on another tripod. Indeed, it did work like a charm. The Garmin so so simple to operate that even I can get it to work. Best $800 I've spent in a long time, aside from "carbon tax',of course. :sneaky:
 
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