trainer question

tenex · Post by **tenex** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:31 pm

Here's a quick question,
All the electronic trainers offer a lot of good features for practice, can any of them be used to "score" shots? It would be nice to be able to shoot a match electronically. Then I can shoot in the living room and not disturb everyone watching TV.

Steve.

higginsdj · Post by **higginsdj** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:10 pm

The Scatt system records scores - either integer or decimal values and allows for sighters etc.

Cheers

David

RobStubbs · Post by **RobStubbs** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:32 am

I think they all record score but it is not their purpose and the actual score shot will not concur exactly with that recorded on the paper targets. It's of more use to train on such a trainer than shoot a match on it purely for a score value.

Rob.

Steve Swartz as Guest · Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:50 am

Yes, they can all be used to report score (they will count shots by tenth, and summarize ten shot strings etc. etc.).

However

There will be a difference between where the shot would have actually fallen and where the trainer thinks it fell.

(a not minor point- the computer cannot accurately estimate the error inherent in your gun; at best, it will place the estimated shot hole within some probabilistic range of where the actual shot would have fallen. There is a significant amount of seemingly random [pseudorandom] error in each shot; the computer can't predict this.)

The best you can hope for is that over the course of a large number of shots, if you properly calibrate your system, and if the inherent error is unbiased, the "score" reported will be "accurate" even if individual shot calls are not.

Just don't do any "shot calling" while training electronically; unless you are live-firing with the trainer.

Steve