Keep track of your range days per gun, and get a warning before a deadline
If a licence, a club or an authority asks you to show that you have used each gun, the hard part is not shooting: it is remembering which gun you used on which day, and whether you are still short. The Shooter app counts that for you, per gun, on your phone.
It counts against a number and a date that you set yourself, and it does not tell you what the number should be. What your licence asks for is in the licence guides and with your club or authority. This article is about how the counting works, so that you can see what it is counting.
In short
A date per gun, a number, a count
You give each gun a date, called the next activity deadline, and you set how many qualifying days you need before it. The app counts the days you shot enough with that gun in the stretch of time ending on that date, and shows the result as, for example, “2 of 4 sessions”. It is only a count against your own settings. A gun with no date is not checked against any requirement at all.
Scanned targets and scores you typed in by hand count the same, so long as a gun is picked on the session.
What counts as a day
One gun, one day, enough shots
A qualifying day is every shot you logged with one gun on one calendar day, in your phone’s time. The day counts when the total for that day reaches the shot threshold, which the app calls “Shots for an approved session”. Several series or sessions with the same gun on the same day add up to one day, and two visits on the same day are still one day.
- A session counts when it is finished. A session still in progress does not.
- A session with no gun picked counts for no gun. If you own one gun, the app picks it for you when you log by hand; with none or several you pick it yourself.
- The threshold is one setting for all guns. If your phone’s region is Sweden, it starts at 15 shots, which the developers’ notes in the code call a club convention that you may edit, not a figure from a rule. In other regions it starts empty and tracking is off until you set it.
- Taking part in the club does not by itself make a gun session count. The count is made from what you logged with each gun.
How to set it up
Four settings and a date
- Open your guns in the app and set a date for each gun that should be tracked: the next date you need to be able to show activity, a licence renewal for example. Leave it empty and the gun is not counted.
- Under “License requirements”, set “Shots for an approved session”.
- Set “Sessions per gun”: how many qualifying days you need. The app does not fill this in for anyone, in any country, because the number depends on your licence and the app cannot know which one is yours.
- Set the activity window in months, which starts at 12.
Tracking starts once the shot threshold is set, the number of sessions is above zero and the gun has a date. The settings are the same for every gun; only the date is per gun.
The window, and the earlier period
The months ending on your date
The window is the number of months ending on the gun’s date, counting both end days. If your phone’s region is Sweden, the app compares two such windows, the one ending on the date and the one just before it, and judges each on its own: eight days in one window do not make up for none in the other. In other regions it judges one window.
If the app has no records that reach back to the start of the earlier window, it does not call that a shortfall. It shows “No records yet for the earlier period”, which is neutral. A date that has passed stays as it is: the app tells you the deadline has passed, asks you to set a new date and waits for you to pick the next one.
What you see
Tiles, a card and a list
On the home screen each tracked gun has a tile with “N of M sessions” and one pip for each session you need (a bar if you need more than eight). On the gun’s own page the Activity card shows the same count as a row of segments, with one line saying what is left, such as “2 needed before 30 September”, or “Above your requirement” when you are over.
| Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Red | The number you set is not reached yet. |
| Amber | It is reached, but the date has passed and you need to set a new one. |
| Green | It is reached, and the date has not passed. |
In the list of guns, a gun shows “Meets requirement” when every period the app can judge has reached your number and the date has not passed. That means your own requirement, the one you typed in. It is not a statement from the app about your licence.
Reminders
Off until you switch them on
Reminders are off for everyone until you turn on “Warn me before I drop below”. The phone asks for permission only then. They are made on the phone, with no server involved, and nothing about your guns is sent anywhere.
- A reminder is made only for a gun that has not yet reached the number and whose date has not passed.
- It is planned for 09:00 your time (Android may deliver it later), 30 days before the date unless you choose another lead time, from 0 to 365 days. If the date is already inside the lead time, the first one comes right away. The lead time is one setting for all guns.
- It repeats weekly, then every third day, then daily as the date comes closer.
- Guns with the same date share one notification, and it never carries a gun’s name, so no gun name appears on a locked screen. The title is “Activity reminder”.
The activity log you can share
A PDF or a CSV, from the export page
From the export page you can make a shooting activity PDF or a CSV for any period you choose. The PDF has a table of approved training sessions per gun and a log of every qualifying day with its date, place, gun, type of session and shots. “Approved” here only means that a day reached your shot threshold: nobody has approved it. The CSV carries the licence number, weapon ID and a count of approved sessions for each gun beside the shots. The approved-sessions table and the log in the PDF, and the approved-session count in the CSV, appear only when the shot threshold is set.
The PDF is a log of what you recorded, and it carries the line “This is a log, not an official determination.” Its heading calls it supporting material for club certificates and activity requirements. Whether your club or an authority accepts it is up to them, and the certificate itself is written by your club, not by the app. How a club issues one is in the licence guides.
What it does not do
No verdict, no authority
- It does not decide whether you comply with anything. It counts against the number you set.
- It does not name or quote any rule on screen, and it does not preset the number of sessions, because a number the app invented would look just like one you had chosen.
- It does not send your activity to a club or an authority. A file you choose to share is how it leaves your phone.
- It does not count sessions that have no gun or sessions still in progress, and it does not check a gun without a date against a requirement.
The app can also count club days, from sessions you tick as “Club session” yourself. Those are your own marks: the activity PDF says so (“Club sessions I marked myself in the app. This file cannot see a club’s own register.”), because only a club’s own register can confirm who was there.
A club can keep its own register of who was there, which is a different thing: it is described in club check-in with a QR code.
Frequently asked questions
4 questions
Do I have to set a date for every gun?
Only for the guns you want checked against a requirement. A gun without a date has no count against a number, no deadline and no reminder, and is listed as “Activity not tracked”.
Do sessions I typed in by hand count?
Yes, as long as the session is finished and a gun is picked. They count the same as scanned targets.
What number should I set for sessions per gun?
The one your licence or your club asks for. The app does not know it and does not suggest one. The licence guides explain where each country’s requirements come from.
Does it tell me if I am on the right side of the rules?
No. It shows your count against your own settings, and its list says “Meets requirement” when you have reached the number you typed in. It makes no claim about your licence.