[The Grand Pooh-Bah]

I have been looking at shot timers, also called range timers & speed timers. I’m looking for suggestions from those who have used and/or owned one of these timers. I want to use it for practice at home and on the range. I have seen that some have them have a wireless accessory, a large display that you can set up on the range.

Which timer would you recommend? Are there any that you would avoid.?

Thanks

 

[ampleworks]

I've heard nothing but good for Pact Inc timers (www.pact.com) and a lifetime warranty you just cannot go wrong.

On the other hand, if you are going to a single club or are a member there, and don't know much about timers, I'd go with the same make/model that your club uses.

But really though, they're fairly simple to use.

 

[XD-9Sub68]

I just got the pact club timer III. have only used it once works great and simple to use.
I shot 22,38,357, in pistol and rifle that day no problems.

reg. price 129.00
I found mine from midway for 109.00 but looks like the sale is gone now.
http://www.midwayusa.com/esearch.ex...ector=all_products&search_keywords=pact+timer

The have the combo, timer and case for 119.00 ...

 

[Old School]

The Pact time is good. In the end, they are all good. In most cases, price will dictate the functions of the timer.

 

[A_Med]

If you're just looking for a timer to practice at home you may want to try this and save some money. I use it and it works great as long as the computer is somewhere in your home you can practice comfortably. Of course this won't read out a time for you but you can set a par time and work towards beating it.


http://www.burkettvideo.com/flashfiles/dryfiredraw.html

 

[mpholic]

These are great!

Is there some way to save these drills to your harddrive? I don't want to have toaccess the internet each time. I tried saving the html file but it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks

 

[A_Med]

This is the actual flash file that runs the timer. Right click on this link and "save target as" to your hard drive. Look at the source of the HTML file for any others you want to save and do the same thing.


http://www.burkettvideo.com/flashfiles/drawbeepSlider082504.swf

 

[mpholic]

How do I look at the "source" of an html file?

I right click on each of the choices on the dry fire index page and then select properties but it only tells me its a hypertext prtocol file. It doesn't point me to the location of the swf file?

edit: OK I went back to the index page and right clicked over to the right away from all the links and found view source but there is a lot of text that apparently is the code for that index page but I didn't see any references to any swf pages. They did call out a lot of html files though.

 

[Old School]

How do I look at the "source" of an html file?

I right click on each of the choices on the dry fire index page and then select properties but it only tells me its a hypertext prtocol file. It doesn't point me to the location of the swf file?

I believe you right click on the page, and click "view source".

 

[mpholic]

That must be my problem, when I right click I do not have the selection "view source".

Maybe I don't have the right version of Shockwave installed or something.

edit oK I found the view source for the index page but I'm not sure what I am looking at. Some form coding that generates the index page and all the links. I guess I need to look through it and see if i can understand any of it.

 

[A_Med]

Here is the link to two other drills on there. The rest are pretty much redundant IMO. These two plus the first one I posted will cover just about anything you need.


http://www.burkettvideo.com/flashfiles/dotdrill1.swf

http://www.burkettvideo.com/flashfiles/swinger_varible_rate_070704.swf

 

[mpholic]

Thank you very much.

 

[The Grand Pooh-Bah]

So far the consensus is that the PACT is the way to go. I went to their web site and they are showing two models. The Club Timer II, which appears to get geared towards use on the range and the MKIV is designed for both the range and practice. Has anyone here used the MKIV?

 

[dyferant]

A friend of mine just got the CED 8000 timer and man what options that thing has. Great for dry fire drills and more stuff than you can do in one day of practice. A little pricey though but looks to be better built that any onther timer I have ever seen. I know if I had to buy one right now it would be this timer for the kind of practice I do. Good luck and here is the link to CED.

http://www.cedhk.com/show.php/Object518

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[ken_mays]

I have the PocketPro and it does a great job. For $100 or so, it's tough to beat it.