Beta Master chronograph

A chronograph is an essential part of my equipment. Over the years I have had quite a few machines so I jumped at the chance to try the new BETA MASTER Beta Master, which takes a lot of the physical and mental leg work out of the job. At an agreeable sub-£140, it is a competent machine that will do everything I require. Incidentally I have owned seven chrono’s over the years - six of which died in spectacular, gun-related accidents; for that read not aiming properly though not all by me. Not sure if that’s a record, the seventh happily passed away from old age.

The memory holds up to 60 shots that can be divided into 10-shot strings if required, this capacity can be upgraded to 1000-shots. In essence each model is an improvement from the one below with extra features added. So what do you get?

• Numbered shot velocities

• Display remains until the next shot

• One string from 2 – 32-shot memory

• Measures high, low and average velocities

• Shows ES (extreme spread) and SD (standard deviation) variations

• Feet and metres per second selection

• Retrieval of individual shot velocities

• Deletes individual shots from memory and automatically adjusts figures

• 60-shot memory 

• Remote can be switched off and removed for information retrieval

• Moves instantly