Checking a score against the paper target: what the club’s check shows

A score on a phone is the shooter’s own word. The Shooter app has a way for a club’s phone to record a score next to the name of the person who started the pass: the member shows the score as a code, someone at the club looks at the paper target, and the club’s phone records it. This article goes through how, and, as important, what the “Verified score” column does and does not show.

It is a part of club mode, described in club check-in with a QR code. The register it ends up in is in the club’s attendance register.

How a check goes

Show, look, enter the code
  1. The member opens a saved session and its menu row “Club session”, which shows a second QR code. The sheet says: hold this up to the club’s phone, and a trusted club member looks at your target and decides what to write in the club’s own record.
  2. The club’s phone, in club mode with a pass open, reads the code and shows “Check this score”, with the score, the full name and the discipline.
  3. The person running the pass looks at the paper target, then types the six-digit pass code or scans the master code from their own phone. Either the code or the master QR lets the phone record the score for that one pass.
  4. The app records the score. The member’s phone is not told the result, so the club tells them.

The code carries the member’s check-in code and name, the target, the name of the gun, when the series was shot, the score and the position of every shot. It does not carry the photo. It goes from phone to phone through the camera, needs no internet and does not reach Shooter. A wrong pass code is refused with a message, and the entry is blocked for a few seconds before the next try.

What is recorded

In the register, on the club’s phone

The club’s phone saves the score with the member’s code, the target, the gun’s name, the time the series was shot, the time it was checked and the name of whoever started the pass, which is not necessarily the person who typed the code. On the History screen it appears as “Checked: …”, and in the exports as the “Verified score” column, with the name of whoever started the pass beside it in the PDF. A series can be recorded once on a given pass: a second try on the same pass says the series is already recorded.

A score can be shown by someone who never checked in on that pass. It has no row in the register to sit on, so it is left out of the exports.

What the “Verified score” column means

Someone with the code entered it

The “Verified score” column means only that someone who had the pass code entered it. The app cannot tell whether that person looked at the target, or who they are. What the club does with that is up to the club.

  • It does not check who the shooter is, which gun was used or what licence it has.
  • It does not check that the score was shot on the day it was checked. Nothing in the app enforces that the two dates match.
  • The pass code is a number anyone at the club can be told, and the master code is a QR code that gives another phone the same access to that pass. Neither is a signature, and both stay the same until the pass ends.

The member’s own tick is a different thing

A box the member ticks themselves

On a session of their own, once a member has ticked “Club session”, a second box appears that they can tick to say a club member looked at the score. It is only the member’s own mark. Nothing in the app sets it from a club’s check, so do not read it as the club’s confirmation. A club’s check is the “Verified score” column in the club’s own register.

Frequently asked questions

4 questions

Does the member’s phone show that the club checked the score?

No. The member’s phone is not told the result, so the club tells them.

Is the photo sent to the club?

No. The code carries the score and the position of each shot, not the photo. The club looks at the paper target.

Who is named as the person who checked?

Whoever started the pass, if they saved a name in the app. The app does not record who typed the pass code.

Is this a legal confirmation of a score?

The app makes no such claim. For what your club or licence may call for, see the licence guides.