A shooting training log app for instructors and their shooters

Sessions and sign-up in one schedule

Training days go into a shared schedule, and every session shows who has already signed up. A shooter joins a session with one tap from the phone, so the instructor no longer has to collect names from messages and copy them into a list by hand. If the bay only takes a certain number of people, the session gets a participant limit and the list stops there.

A busy session can be split into waves, smaller groups within the same session, so the firing line is not crowded and everyone knows when it is their turn. When a session has to be called off, the instructor cancels it and picks the reason: weather, the range, the instructor, or too few people. Shooters stay informed through push notifications, e-mail letters and Telegram, and can add the sessions to the phone's own calendar.

• Schedule built around training days
• One-tap sign-up for shooters
• Participant limits and waves
• Cancellation with a clear reason
• Sessions in the phone's calendar

Attendance on the firing line, with or without signal

On the day, the instructor marks who actually came. Clubs that have a scanner or a kiosk at the entrance can use QR check-in instead: the shooter shows the code on arrival and is marked present. The session can also hold the number of rounds set for each shooter, which is handy when ammunition is counted out before the first drill.

A shooting training log app is only useful if it works where the shooting happens, and reception at outdoor ranges is often poor. The journal keeps working without a connection and syncs everything once the phone is back online, so attendance and results entered at the berm are not lost on the way.

When paperwork is needed, the range attendance sheet with signatures prints as a PDF, along with other lists, forms and reports. Shooter lists can be imported from Excel and exported back to it.

Runs with time, A/C/D zones, penalties and hit factor

Every attempt at a drill is saved as a run. The run holds the time, hits in the A, C and D zones, misses, no-shoots, penalties and steel. Points and hit factor are calculated by the journal, so nobody has to do the arithmetic on a clipboard between relays.

The built-in shot timer listens to shots through the phone's microphone. A run can also have its video attached, which makes it easier to go back over the run together with the shooter after the session.

Drills come from the drill library. Instructors who build stages in the stage builder, with a top-down and 3D layout, paper targets, no-shoots, steel poppers, walls and the shooting area, can turn a stage into a training drill. That way match-style work ends up in the same practical shooting training log as the everyday drills.

• Time, A/C/D hits, misses and no-shoots
• Penalties and steel
• Points and hit factor calculated for you
• Shot timer through the microphone
• Video of a run

Progress that shows up on a chart

Progress charts are the reason to keep a shooting training journal at all. Each drill has its own chart: a shooter opens a drill and sees how their runs have changed from session to session, and can compare one run with another or with other shooters. For the instructor, the same charts show who is moving forward and who has stalled on a particular drill.

The instructor can give each shooter a personal training program inside the journal, so the shooter knows what to work on before the next session. Awards, medals and challenges add a little friendly competition to ordinary training weeks.

Shooter cards and personal data that stays private

Every shooter has a card with level, division (Production, Standard, Open, Production Optics, Classic and others), guns and licences, medical and health certificates, a photo and a signature. The journal reminds about certificates before they expire, so an outdated document is noticed in advance and not at the range gate.

Personal details such as the ID number, licence and medical data are encrypted. They are stored scrambled, opened only on the device and never kept in the clear on the server. Staff see only the people of their own club, and every access is logged: who opened what and when.

• Encrypted ID, licence and medical data
• Staff see only their own club
• Every access is logged
• Reminders before certificates expire

Getting started as a shooter, an instructor or a club

A shooter joins by an invitation link from their instructor or club. The roles are shooter, instructor, club admin and journal owner, and one person can belong to several clubs at once, which suits shooters who train in more than one place.

A club that wants to keep its training in My Shooting Hub writes to the owner of the journal. Before that, the demo club, a made-up club inside the real journal, lets anyone look around as a shooter, an instructor or an admin without registration. There are separate guides for shooters and for instructors.

The interface is available in eight languages: English, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, German, Italian, French and Spanish, with Hebrew and Arabic shown right to left. Light and dark themes and adjustable text size keep the shooting training log app readable on a sunny outdoor range and in a dim indoor one.