Technology

“I fired an 8 on the first shot.” These were the words my father wrote in his shooting diary 60 years ago today, on his way to winning the 300m Free Rifle event in the Tokyo Olympics and setting a new world record. For him, these words were a prelude to his triumph over a disastrous start. For ...

At Scopos our goal is to turn shooting into a spectator sport. As a company we can only do so much to achieve this goal. Scopos has built the tools, but Match Directors and Range Officers have to know how to use our tools to help popularize and publicize shooting as a sport. In this article we ...

Orion and Rezults are full of new features that benefit athletes, coaches, and spectators. Learn to take advantage of everything Orion has to offer by following these five new best practices. Set the Start and End DateThe start and end date, which you set in Match Properties, is used to tell Orion ...

Scopos is pleased to announce our new Rezults Leaderboard. It’s state of the art, easy to use, and easy to follow. It’s available now on Rezults for all events supported by Orion, and works with both Electronic Scoring Targets (ESTs) and paper targets. Rezult’s Leaderboard is designed to ...

Imagine 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 because the TV producers were not ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Scopos we have a singular mission: “use technology to 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 summarized as follows: we must make scoring shots fast, accurate, and affordable. 

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 ...

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 ...