What do your shots show? The analysis in the Shooter app
A score hides the pattern. Two sessions with the same total can have a tight group in the wrong place or a wide group around the centre. The Shooter app reads the positions of the holes and points out what stands out, as leads to check and not as a verdict on your technique.
It reaches you in three places: chips on a result, a list of recurring faults on the discipline page, and an analysis report you can share as a PDF. All of it needs positions from a scanned target. A session typed in on the keypad gives none, see logging shots by hand.
Chips on a result
Short flags with a sheet behind them
At the top of the summary card of a scanned result, above the score, there is a row of chips, or the text “Nothing stands out in the group”. Tap a chip to open a sheet that says what it means. Most sheets also have a suggestion under “Try this”, a drawing on the target and a link to an article on the website, which needs internet. The Sights chips open the sight adjustment sheet instead. A chip with a dashed border is “Preliminary”, and its sheet says what is missing before it can be trusted.
| Chip | What it says | What it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Sights | The group centre is off. With clicks if you can, otherwise, when the offset is large enough to matter, in millimetres and as a clock position. | Clicks need a gun with click values and at least 5 shots. |
| Tighten the group first | The group is off-centre, but its spread costs more than the offset. | It takes the place of the sights chip. |
| Misses at a clock position | Where the shots below the top ring gather, as a question to check. | Handgun disciplines only, and at least 8 shots below the top ring. |
| Flyers | Shots far outside the rest of the group. | At least 3 shots in the series. |
| Series land apart | The series centres sit in different places. | A session with at least 3 series of at least 3 shots each. Shown on the session overview only. |
| Wider side to side, or up and down | The group is wider on one axis. | Enough shots for a statistical test. Always preliminary. |
| Group walks | The group centre moved between the first and the last shots. | Scope Mode only, at least 9 shots. Always preliminary. |
| Drops at the end | The later half of the session averages below the first. | At least 4 series. Always preliminary. |
A photo scan cannot show the group walking, because the order of shots in a photo is the detector’s, not the order you fired them in. Scope Mode records the order, see Scope Mode. The chips are named by what the holes show, such as “Group walks”, and not by a cause.
Colour: compared with your own usual
Amber and red need 8 earlier values
A chip turns amber or red only when you have at least 8 earlier values of the same measure, from your recent views of the same kind. Amber means more than usual for you, in the top quarter. Red means much more than usual, in the top tenth. The chip’s label stays the same. The colour compares you with yourself and never with other shooters.
Recurring faults
On the discipline page
The discipline page has a “Recurring faults” card. The app re-reads the chips over your 20 most recent finished sessions that have shot positions. A row appears when the same finding shows up in at least 2 of them, with up to 5 rows. Each reads like “3 of 12 sessions · 5 times”. Tapping a row opens the latest sheet for that finding. The “Sights are off” row opens the session instead. Until a finding repeats, the card is not shown.
The analysis report
A screen and a PDF, one discipline at a time
Open it from Export on the discipline page (pick Analysis), or from Export report in your profile and then Export analysis report. It covers one discipline, and a filter above the Share button narrows it by year, latest sessions, variant, gun or club sessions. Each part is printed only when it has content:
- A note to your coach, typed when you share. It is printed on the PDF only and never saved in the app.
- The shot pattern, with the mean radius and the group centre. From at least 10 shots in at least 3 series, a ring is also drawn that holds about nine in ten of your past shots. It describes your sessions so far and predicts nothing.
- Results for practice, test and match, with a line on the gap between practice and match only when there are at least 3 sessions of each and the gap is clearly larger than your sessions usually vary.
- Where the points go: centring, shift between series, spread within series and flyers, as points per shot you could remove. Areas that do not stand out are named as within normal range or as lacking data.
- A current focus: the one area the app picks to work on and, when your filter is the same as when it was set, how its loss has changed since then.
- Observations, introduced with a request to confirm or correct them, at most 6.
- A table of your sessions, with typed sessions marked “entered by hand”, and series detail for the latest 3.
The points you could remove are not measured against a perfect score. The spread-within-series figure is measured against your own good level once at least 5 of your sessions with scanned positions allow it, and before that against a small next step. The report is separate from the shooting activity export, and it is shared only when you choose to share it.
What it does not say
Leads to check, not diagnoses
- It reads where the holes are and your scores, and in Scope Mode the order of the shots. It does not measure your body, trigger pull, breathing or timing.
- The “Misses at a clock position” sheets end with a question (“Does that match how the shots felt?”). The “Wider side to side / up and down” sheets call themselves a lead to check, not a diagnosis, and say that holes alone cannot show why.
- Some sheets name a likely cause in direct words. Treat every sheet as something to test at the range, not as a verdict.
- It does not promise that you will improve. Some sheets show how many points per shot a fix could be worth, as an estimate.
- Some findings are compared with reference values. These are rough estimates, not measured from Shooter users, and not a standard you have to meet.
- It uses rules and statistical tests, not AI.
Several findings are also held back until there is enough data. For the picture of where the holes are, see the heat map. For the scores and group figures, see statistics.
Cost, account and internet
On the phone, no account
The chips, the faults and the report are worked out on your phone, with no account and no internet. There is no Pro check on them. The only limit that reaches them is indirect: the first 10 scans are free, and typed sessions are free and unlimited but give no hole positions.
The wording of the findings is bundled in the app. When you open a discipline page or the report, the app may fetch newer wording, at most once a day. The request carries the app version and platform, not scores or shots. If it fails, the bundled wording is used.
Frequently asked questions
4 questions
Why do my typed sessions get no chips?
Chips read where the holes are, and a typed session has only scores. A typed session shows up in the report as a row marked “entered by hand”.
Does the app tell me what I am doing wrong?
No. It shows what stands out in the pattern of the holes and suggests something to test. Some sheets name a likely cause in direct words, so treat every sheet as something to try at the range, not as a verdict.
Why is a chip not coloured?
Colour needs at least 8 earlier values of the same measure. Before that, chips are shown without amber or red.
Can I send the report to my coach?
Yes, with Share PDF. You can add a note to your coach, which is printed on the PDF only and is not saved in the app.