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HELP I’m lost on this one

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Evening folks

ive gone a splashed some dollar on a classic Army micro mini gun. Yep it’s a nice toy but then it dawned on me…………………..

how on earth do I chrono the dam thing

does anyone know how?

 
Evening folks

ive gone a splashed some dollar on a classic Army micro mini gun. Yep it’s a nice toy but then it dawned on me…………………..

how on earth do I chrono the dam thing

does anyone know how?


carefully

 
It’s also dependant on what chronograph you have access to and it’s capabilities 

If it’s a chamber / tube style that you shoot though then it would be ‘very carefully’

If it’s one that your shoot over then that’s much easier

If you have to hold a button then many hands are required (unless you can tape it down), if it can be switched on and fired over without touching then it can be used with ease

 
In this video there are what were the 3 common chronos in paintball back in the day:

Big red - professional site chrono …. Turn  it on, shoot over it and it’s tough for bad aim

Little yellow - my first personal chrono.  A bit of a pain as you have to press the button and then reset each shot.  But it did the job 

Grey X radar - my second personal chrono. No need to keep resetting, just hold the button and shoot as much as you like 

A site version was/is also available, which you just turn on and can be mounted on a tripod or stand





 
Most chronographs should work just fine for your purposes, as the chrono will register each BB separate from its neighbors unless you have an error...
Most sites I've attended use the "tube" type chrono, they tend to struggle with anything full auto, even guns with the slowest rof trigger errors.

 
Ever tried chronoing a tri shot down one? Firing 3 bbs down one can give some interesting results


One hundred billion fps.

The sites I play at tend to be very tolerant of (spring) tri-shots, and full-auto-only guns, on the basis that they've not seen any that are a problem in practice.

Of course, if you're not looking, you won't see.

 
That just leaves the gas ones. Fortunately more sites are realising that you need to only load 1 bb per shell to get an accurate result

 
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I don't think you'll get an accurate reading loading 1 BB into a shell.

The gas will go freely through the other two barrels so fps will read quite a bit lower

 
It's certainly more accurate than the 600+fps readings I've had firing 3 bbs at once 

 
Most sites I've attended use the "tube" type chrono, they tend to struggle with anything full auto, even guns with the slowest rof trigger errors.


I see. That seems incredibly annoying. my $50 Xcortech from Amazon handles full-auto anything just fine, so I'd assumed sites would at least have a chrono that functions as well as my plasticky thing from the A.

 
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