ShotPace

**ShotPace runs the clock so you can keep your eyes on the target.** Practising alone means there is nobody to call the line. ShotPace gives the commands, times them exactly, and signals every transition on your wrist, so you never have to look at the watch during a string. PERSONAL PRACTICE ONLY. The TAR rulebook forbids connected watches on the firing line in competition and official training. ShotPace is built for personal practice outside any official setting. One governing body does permit a device under conditions and the app says so per discipline, but permission is not endorsement: a Match Director outranks any rulebook, and your club's bylaws may be stricter than the federal ones. Check locally. NINETEEN DISCIPLINES. TAR and TSV, NRA Bullseye, ISSF 25 m, IDPA, USPSA, ICORE, SASS, USPSA Multigun, PRS, NRA Silhouette, IMSSU Silhouette, F-Class, MLAIC Muzzle Loading, CMP Highpower Rifle, CMP As-Issued Military Rifle, IBS Benchrest, Steel Challenge, and SimpleShoot: a clock and a count with no rulebook behind either. Each is built from its own governing body's book, with the round counts, durations, targets and penalties that book actually prints. Each carries a sheet in the app saying where it comes from and what that body says about a watch on the firing line. CUES YOU CAN FEEL. Every transition vibrates as well as sounds, because behind hearing protection vibration is the only channel that gets through. Vibration, tone and the flashlight switch independently, app-wide or per drill, because a range decides what is acceptable. AFTERWARDS. Score entry that offers only the values the target can produce. History across every discipline, never totalled or ranked together, because points, hit factors, raw times and group sizes are not comparable quantities. Statistics per event. A FIT activity in Garmin Connect for sessions long enough to be one, and on SimpleShoot it can carry your route, so a field course, a walk-and-shoot drill, airsoft or paintball comes back as a map with the clock beside it. A glance with your last session. YOURS TO SET. Every interval the app chose for you is a setting, and restorable. Build your own drills: copy a catalogue event and change it, or start from nothing. ENGLISH AND FRENCH THROUGHOUT, except the range commands, which stay in the language that competition is conducted in. A French shooter running the interface in English still reads TIREZ; an English speaker still reads Standby and Hit factor in French. Those are the words someone will shout at you, and the wrong reflex is a safety problem rather than a cosmetic one. SHOT DETECTION IS EXPERIMENTAL. The watch can count shots from the recoil impulse in its accelerometer. It is off by default and behind a limitations screen you have to read. It is not a certified timer, it will not catch every shot, and no recoil means no detection: air rifles and 10 m ISSF are outside it by physics. Every count stays editable before it is saved, and a count never records a score on its own. Do not use it where a score depends on the count. PERMISSIONS. Four, and it still runs if you refuse any of them. FIT and FitContributor write the activity you see in Garmin Connect. Sensor is the accelerometer, used only for detecting shots by recoil. Positioning is the GPS, used only for the route on SimpleShoot, and only when you switch it on. Nothing leaves the watch: no account, no network call, no telemetry. NOT AFFILIATED. FFTir, IPSC, NRA, ISSF, IDPA, USPSA, ICORE, SASS, PRS, SCSA, IMSSU, IBS, CMP and MLAIC are named only to say which rulebook a mode follows. ShotPace is not endorsed by or affiliated with any of them. Full documentation and screenshots, in English and French: https://www.nilorea.net/Garmin/ShotPace/index.html

## 1.1.8 - **SimpleShoot can record your route.** Turn on `Record activity` and then `Record route`, and the session comes back in Garmin Connect as a map of the ground you covered with the clock beside it - a field course, a walk-and-shoot drill, airsoft, paintball. Off by default: continuous GPS costs battery, and standing on one spot gets you a dot. - **Settings from the phone now cover every discipline.** Forty-six of them, grouped by discipline in Garmin Connect - the preparation intervals, the random start delays, the par times, and the switches. TAR's rows are titled with the commands themselves, so they read `CHARGEZ` and `PRÊT` on the phone exactly as on the watch. ## 1.1.7 - **The glance says what its number is.** The strip that shows your last session used to end in a bare decimal, and a 15.34 second run, a 1.8983 hit factor and a 0.187 inch group all looked like the same kind of number. Each now carries its unit - `s`, `HF`, `in` - in whichever language you are reading. - **The glance was showing the wrong session, and had been for a long time.** After a benchrest string, a Steel Challenge run, a Bullseye match or any of thirteen other disciplines, it went on showing whatever your last TAR, TSV or SimpleShoot session had been. The history was always right; only the strip was stale. Every discipline updates it now. - **The history says what each number is.** A benchrest group, a TSV hit factor and a USPSA hit factor used to appear in the history as bare decimals, next to a SimpleShoot time that carried its `s`. A group where smaller is better and a hit factor where bigger is are now written `0.250 in` and `1.8983 HF`, so two numbers that are not the same kind of thing no longer look like it. - **A new permission: Positioning.** ShotPace asks for the GPS. Nothing in the app turns it on yet - it is there for a route trace still being built, and it is being asked for now because adding a permission to a published app makes everyone accept it a second time. Refuse it and nothing changes.