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...

Rulebooks are great about telling you the explicit requirements for running your match. Time limits, range commands, and tie breaking are all subjects rulebooks teach you. But they fail to teach you all the implicit requirements to run a successful match. For example, rulebooks will tell you how to rank competitors, but...

Scopos is pleased to announce Athlete Profiles, a brand new feature in Rezults. Athlete Profiles allow athletes to share who they are, and all of the public competition scores they shot, in one page on the Internet. Athlete Profiles came about from our commitment to turn shooting into a spectator sport. Simply...

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...

Coaches, we get it. You don't have a lot of time during the week, and need to make your practice sessions go as smoothly as possible. You might even think you don't have the time to set up a match in Orion, and instead want to just hand score all...

Learning to use and master Orion comes down to a single rule: "never use Orion for the first time at a match." In fact, this is true for both Orion and Athena. These systems are not difficult to use, but there is a learning curve. To run a successful competition...

What is Group Mode?Among Athena’s many unique training modes, our newest release focuses on bringing back the advantages of training group size and consistency: Group Mode. A major, if not the only, drawback of switching from paper to electronic targets is the loss of the ability to effectively train groups....

The Basic Marksmanship Course (BMC) target was created by the Civilian Marksmanship Program, about 20 years ago, as a means to help introduce brand new athletes to air rifle shooting. The target has the same aiming bull dimensions as the standard air rifle target, but with scoring rings three times...