Having used a three sky-screen chronograph for years with excellent results, I was hesitant to spend the money on a new chronograph. There was never any doubt this would be an excellent product since it was made by Garmin. This unit is so much faster to setup and use than the old sky screen units, you not only get to spend more time shooting, but you will have much more accurate readings as well. Additionally, there is no longer a need to write down or print the results, this unit can either upload your results to a paired mobile device, or you can email the results to yourself before you leave the range so no data is lost.
This replaced a chrono with the rod and sunshade design, which requires careful alignment of shooting path and chrono. The other chrono would sometimes pick up other shooters' bullets and miss my shots. The Xero is 100% reliable, accurate and so easy to set up. If you reload, you need this.
The unit is a game changer. I’ve used it indoor, outdoor, in the cold, low light, rimfire, handgun, rifle and it just plain works. I love the app and the ability to record all my notes. The size is amazing. I sold a rifle that I wasn’t using too much to purchase the Garmin and at this point, I’d sell three rifles if I had to because the Garmin works that well!
First I would like more data fields in the screen and more user friendly file transfer and information, for example my CSV conversions are missing data from whats in the actual devise like high and low velocity, only shows average of shot string.