Before the first beep

Every session starts here. Tick each one only when it is true right now.

A laser training cartridge or a training barrel makes dry fire safer still. Your answers are not saved: the next session asks again.

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The drill

Drill

Instant start (from the ready position) Beep at the par time Your gun

Beep pitch

Use the phone's own speaker: Bluetooth adds a delay nobody can measure.

Open the microphone

Camera setup

Where to put it

Between the TV (or your target) and you, facing you, about three metres away: low, below the line from your gun to the target, and a little off centre. Straight down the line of fire your hands and gun hide your body at full extension, and a camera at eye height stands in front of the targets. Your whole body should be in the picture, hips included.

I shoot left-handed (the gun is in my left hand)

Ready stance and full extension

Once per session: hold each for two seconds when the screen says HOLD. Gun pointed in the safe direction.

Ready stance: stand facing the camera, hands relaxed at your sides, gun holstered — not a low ready. Full extension: both hands on the gun, arms straight out.

Clap check

Are the camera and the microphone on one clock? After the beep, clap once at each CLAP, hands in front of your chest. This device's answer is kept for next time.

Start the clap check

Aim from the camera

Hang a USPSA paper target where you will aim (any size). From eighteen presses — nine named points on it, each twice — the camera learns how your hands and arms map onto the target. What it then reads is an estimate: on or off the target, which target, and the shape of your aim at each press — never a score.

The hung target's size Camera off the line of fire, degrees (− to your left, + to your right) My gun has no audible click: I hold still for a second at each point instead

Each point is shown for a few seconds: find it, take a proper sight picture, press (or hold). Gun pointed at the hung target, which must be in a safe direction.

Calibrate the aim (18 presses, about a minute)

The target sheet

Print the sheet at actual size (100 %) — never “fit to page” — and measure the bar on it: it must be exactly 100 mm. Hang it flat in a safe direction, the four black corner squares uncovered.

Open the sheet to print The bar on my print measures, mm

Power factor (how hits score) Minor Major

Face the sheet

Stand the phone on something steady behind or beside you, its camera on the sheet, the whole sheet in the picture and upright. Then find the markers: the sheet's outline and the target's are drawn over the picture when they are found. The target's drawn outline must sit exactly on the printed target — if it is bigger or smaller, the size chosen above is not the one you printed. If the phone moves, find them again.

Find the sheet's markers

No click to learn

Start the reps

Learn your gun's click

Stand where you will practise, gun pointed in the safe direction. When the screen says PRESS, press the trigger once. Three times, three seconds apart.

Start

Heard

Rep

Tap a mark to remove a shot. Tap anywhere else to move the playhead, then add a shot there.

Next rep by itself after 5 s Next rep End the session

Practice is over — say it out loud before you load the gun.

This session

Review in Cutaway

Dry and live draw

Side by side, never averaged: the gap is the lesson.

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