Shootin4fun
Well-Known Member
Loving the Xero too! To me, it's a gamechanger. So easy to set up and just run with for all the obvious reasons. Doesn't affect group size or POI, thereby saving ammo and time in a big way. You can just experiment away with loads, not having to shoot separate groups for accuracy/precision and velocity measurements. So 50% savings on ammo during load dev right there. When monitoring all your shots freely, you can see patterns emerge much more easily.
Edit? You mean delete shots? Add notes? Okay, that's nice...
BUT, they need to improve the software:
1) Assign a number to a series. Other chronos all do this and it helps tremendously in tracking series/strings. So currently you have a stack of series under a date, and they are just tagged with the time/date. Need to assign a simple number and increment for each series. I track everything on paper in parallel so I know what string (series) was shot at what target, etc.
2) Series Note is not carried to XLS upon exporting. Shot Note is! WTH? I want to name a Series with info: Case generation/powder charge/Ogive for example, and have that show up in the top field of the XLS spread sheet for that series. Right now my workaround is to put it in Series Note so it's easy to see on my phone, and again in shot #1 Shot Note. PITA
3) Add ability to Suspend a session and start a new session, then go back to the Suspended session and add shots. This would allow the user to shoot Round Robin, duh!!! (Magneto can't do this either but lil ol Shooting Chrony can! LOL) Round Robin shooting is a commonly discussed technique to average out environmental factors over some hours of shooting. Plus, I sometimes alternate guns at the range, letting one cool down while I shoot the other. This is really an important feature, probably the biggest hole in the software right now.
I can't understand how the Product Manager left these features out. Well, it's only 6 months old, so maybe it's on the product dev roadmap.
If we all send in an email suggesting these improvements, it should get them thinking about it. So feel free to copy and paste the above suggestions an send them to Garmin CS! Maybe call CS and talk to them about it if they're available to hear such things. I'll try tomorrow after shooting. Talk about it on YT vid! They are watching social media for sure, as all companies these days do. Let's get their attention!
Wrapping it up...If LR came out with a competitive unit that includes these features, Garmin will definitely implement them. As I said in my last post, I've been through a LOT of product shootouts over 45 years. They were on professional high tech products, and sometimes a customer's desisions came down to a few simple features. ("Does it take one button press or 2 button presses to do that?") If the one lacking didn't implement it in time, a sale would be lost to the competition who had it. That's one of the good things about competitive capitalism; it pushes innovation.
