Teachers, here are five tips to jumpstart your year and get the most out of your Orion software.Tip 1: Check Your Orion and Athena SuppliesYou won’t want to run out of targets early in the school year. Go ahead and check your supplies of Orion targets and Athena paper rolls....

magine for a moment, going to a baseball game this summer and not knowing how the home team is doing because there is no scoreboard. Or what about trying to watch your alma mater on television playing in an NCAA tournament, but you do not know which team is ahead...

Scopos is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve both Orion and Athena. Our most recent improvement is to the mechanical lift of our Athena ESTs. Our new cable operated pulley lift system is an improvement over the previous threaded rod lift in several ways:Quieter: Existing Athena customers will be happy...

If your Athena range sees a lot of use, it could use some TLC after a long season. Scopos offers annual maintenance appointments, usually during the summer, to help keep your range working as efficiently as possible.What's Covered in a Maintenance AppointmentA maintenance appointment will cover all things relating to...

To assign hospital points or not to assign hospital points, that is the question.When you run a competition you want everything to go perfectly. You familiarize yourself with the rulebook, you instruct your volunteers, and you even run a few practice matches just to be sure you and your range...

As Americans we have a saying: “trust but verify.” When it comes to Electronic Scoring Targets (ESTs) I will openly admit that many of Athena’s competitors can be trusted; they are accurate systems. However, despite their exceedingly high price point, shots scored on their ESTs can not be verified in...

At Scopos we have a singular mission: “to use leading-edge technologies to improve marksmanship in athletes, and turn shooting into a spectator sport.” When I began studying this problem over a decade ago, I realized an initial and necessary step would be to solve the scoring problem.The scoring problem is...

One of the most common questions we get is, "what is the difference between the Athena NC100 and NC200?" Let's take a moment to explore their differences.The SimilaritiesBoth the NC100 and NC200 are part of Athena's family of Electronic Scoring Targets (ESTs). Both scores shots to within .1mm, both use...

For most of the people reading this newsletter, the safety record of the shooting sports is well-known. Shooting may be the safest youth sport in the United States. The Civilian Marksmanship Program reports that not a single injury-causing incident involving gun handling safety in youth air rifle programs has occurred...