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Plumose wrote:I have only had a quick look at our clubs one, but it seemed to work ok on the indoor range and was even working with a suppressed pcp air rifle

You were fortunate then Plumose. A fellow club member has one and has no end of problems trying to get it to work in the tunnel range due to revererations off the tunnel walls. If you look at the LabRadar website they actually mention that this can be a problem.

I bought the one for our club that PaulM mentions - got this after I bought mine, both of them work fine on an indoor range (not tested tube) for all the following:


* centrefire calibres
* rimfire in a pistol - both subs and hv.
* rimfire in a rifle - UNLESS it's subsonic.


I haven't tested black powder / nitro powder muzzle loaders.

I've tinkered with settings for sure but in my experience muzzle placement is everything - not just vertically and horizontally but also how far forward of the Labradar you place the muzzle.

By and large I've found 6 inches to the left or right of the mid point of the LabRadar, and 2" to 12" in front will cover all those above I've mentioned on an indoor range.

Our range is a typcial 20 yard indoor range with 5 lanes and doesn't often pick up adjacent lanes shots, but when it does it's usually as I've been pants at aiming the chrony at my specific target.....

As PaulM says - on an outdoor range it's not fussy at all unless we're talking a 223 with a moderator and then we just couldn't get it to pick the shot up no matter what. Just fine when we took the moderator off.

I do have the airgun adapter so thought occurs I could abuse that one day to see if that picks up moderated firearms Or subsonic rimfires on rifles indoors.

There's supposed to be an app released for smartphones for these to allow remote operation (they have bluetooth built in - not sure how many know that?) but the app is constantly being pushed back........

I misread the title and wondered where the dogs came into it.....

Chapuis wrote:

Plumose wrote:I have only had a quick look at our clubs one, but it seemed to work ok on the indoor range and was even working with a suppressed pcp air rifle

You were fortunate then Plumose. A fellow club member has one and has no end of problems trying to get it to work in the tunnel range due to revererations off the tunnel walls. If you look at the LabRadar website they actually mention that this can be a problem.

I should have mentioned that this one was purchased in the U.S. No sure if this makes a difference but it certainly doesn't like working in a tunnel range.

Chapuis wrote:

Chapuis wrote:

Plumose wrote:I have only had a quick look at our clubs one, but it seemed to work ok on the indoor range and was even working with a suppressed pcp air rifle

You were fortunate then Plumose. A fellow club member has one and has no end of problems trying to get it to work in the tunnel range due to revererations off the tunnel walls. If you look at the LabRadar website they actually mention that this can be a problem.

I should have mentioned that this one was purchased in the U.S. No sure if this makes a difference but it certainly doesn't like working in a tunnel range.

Try the power setting. The UK ones are forced to low. Forget name is in manual.

It just so happens I have a US one and the one I bought for the club is a UK one - in the testing I did they both worked just as well as each other.

I'd expect the issue with tunnel ranges is as you've established the way the sound reverberates in the tunnel, such that the unit doesn't think a shot has been fired - the noise is purely so the unit knows when to track a round - not just any round that has crossed it's beam but one that was fired adjacent to the unit ie the intended round.

Could be a feature enhancment whereby on a tunnel range - yours is the only round fired ergo - track any projectile entering the beam? I'll ping that to Labradar and see if they'll add the feature.

We tried it with no other shooters on the range as we wondered if it was picking up other shots, but it was the same result or rather no results. I haven't witnessed it being used outside but I am told there were no issues whatsoever.