Well worth the cost however .
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Shotmarkers up and running at our range
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LeadMonkey
CGN frequent flyer
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- Off The Radar
Nice upgrade, are they left out or set up each time? Is their use limited to certain members or all members? Trying to understand how damage is monitored and who pays when they explode from an errant shot!
The units are taken in after each session, but the frames stay up. It takes less than three minutes to set up each one .
Only the RSO's have access to the units , we put a notice on our calender and on our long range shooters facebook page when an RSO is going to be setting them up.
The microphones are quite a distance apart - 80" or so .
If a shooter is inexperienced at long range shooting, we get them to put a couple of shots onto the steel at the distance they are shooting , to verify their zero.
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We have a range with military styled butts; concrete shelters for target pullers and target carriers, with firing points back to 600m. That was not inexpensive.
An electronic system is certainly a lot easier to install.
Gunnerlove
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Vancouver Island
Add the cost of a human operated target to the gallery range and the cost keeps going up.
It’s not just the cost of manually operated targets, it’s getting very difficult to find people willing to do it. Very few people I talk to miss pulling targets. Plus, you get to blame the e target when you miss.
The electronic targets cut the time requirement for a match to a fraction of what ot takes to run a match with manually marked target butts as well.
No need to rotate a three man team or to hire cadets, etc to run the butts!
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That’s very true. It’s nice starting a match at 10 and being done by 3.
Not at all.
The first system I used that was not as simple or as elegant as ShotMarker... and cost $23,000 per unit.
It was however capable of subsonic detection.... but that is aside.
Shot marker is an exceptional piece of equipment.
