New Hornady Hit Indicators.

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Hello gentlemen.

My name is Curtis Gordon from Pancake Lake Precision . I run a PRS style match in southwest Manitoba called Engage Precision Pancake Lake Open with co founder Dawson Keen. We are wondering if anyone has a line of these new hit indicators. We have a few ideas for them and want to try them at our match this summer June 15,16.
 
cgordon28 said:
Hello gentlemen.

My name is Curtis Gordon from Pancake Lake Precision . I run a PRS style match in southwest Manitoba called Engage Precision Pancake Lake Open with co founder Dawson Keen. We are wondering if anyone has a line of these new hit indicators. We have a few ideas for them and want to try them at our match this summer June 15,16.
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maybe reach out to the Korth Group as they rep Hornady in Canada.
 
The Caldwell Flashbangs are widely available. I can confirm they work amazing.

To make a point, with the original battery, I have seen one in use for 6 months, from +30 to -30, with naked eye visual confirmation at 1 mile.

Incredible budget friendly tech development for long range shooters.

The downside is if you are shooting into the sun they are definitely harder to see with the naked eye.
 
The Caldwell unit has two major faults:
1. the part that sticks outside the edge of the target is not capable of taking hits, so one or two edge misses will destroy the unit.
2. a second hit before the initial hit flash is complete, does not show a unique visual indication of the second hit. This makes it useless on a competition target where repeated shots at the same target are called for.
 
As with any similar system, yes if hit it will break. The Hornady is no different.

Yes, quick succession shots are out of the question.
 
Bfranklin said:
As with any similar system, yes if hit it will break. The Hornady is no different.

Yes, quick succession shots are out of the question.
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The Magnetospeed indicators are different in that they survive hits because it's just a silicone light redirector projected outside the target.

The Hornady indicators are different in that they are positioned feet away from the target, so it should be more rare to hit them with a bullet.
 
We've used a bunch of the Caldwell Flash Bangs for a few matches now and they work flawlessly with rimfire. We usually place these on targets past 200m. We've used them on 1/3 IPSC to Fullsize IPSC centerfire targets and work with rimfire rounds. The price is pretty compelling. One or two have gotten hit in the LED array but the remaining LEDs continue to work. The only real problem is that it doesn't reset fast enough to capture multiple hits but luckily for us, we don't see many rapid succession impacts.
For the price of 1 Magnetospeed T1000 we can get 4-5 of the Caldwell Flash Bangs. Hard to beat pricewise.
 
I bought a bunch of them from SFRC, quite inexpensive.
Used them a at 1000 yard Steel Match and they are very visible and do their job.
You can only have 1 target on a frame or Steel post though as they are so sensitive if you hit any of the targets it will light up.
Much better than Caldwell version. Flasher need a few seconds before you can shoot again as it flashes for maybe 3 secs.
 
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