The Firearm Blog

Mark Dennehy is a programmer and an ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) qualified judge. He is developing a tool to analyze the results of the air rifle shooters at his gun club.

Cool stuff.

More here.

iSnipe is a very polished looking external ballistics calculator for iPhone / iPod Touch created by a Canadian firm.

Created with ease of use in mind, iSnipe is the perfect companion for any gun aficionado, competition shooter, or even law-enforcement officer… It’s just that accurate. With all the ingredients you’d expect from a portable ballistics calculator, including the ability to save and load ballistic profiles, automatic save of form values and all the other features you’d expect from an integrated iPhone app, there is no better way to get on target every time. Finally there is a portable desktop quality application that we can all take along with us to the range.

.303 NATO???

A Palm OS Calculator for comparison.
I was a palm fanatic back in the day.

According to Joe Huffman, the current version does not include the ability to set altitude or temperature these features will be available soon.

A couple of weeks ago I predicted this application would be available soon (not a hard prediction to make considering there is a ballistics calculator for just about every mobile platform invented), now just waiting for my other prediction, a full IPSC timer.

Hat Tip: SayUncle

Surefire have released a Shot Timer iPhone application called, you guessed it, “ShotTimer”. It shows elapsed time, split time and allows you to email results.

I am slightly annoyed, I was seriously thinking about writing a shot timer but looks like I was beaten to it.

I predict it will not be long until a full IPSC timer and external ballistic calculator are released for the iPhone. Both make sense for such a cool device.

Hat Tip: Captain of a Crew of One va. Snow Flakes in Hell

Suburban has written a program to work out how many clicks are

needed to adjust your scope. It runs on TI-83 calculators.

I wrote this program for use on a TI-83. I’m not sure if it will work as written on newer models. You input the range, the click values for your scope, and how many inches you need to move the impacts, and it spits out the number of clicks. Works good with high quality scopes, but the click values for cheaper scopes don’t always turn out to be exactly what the manufacturer says they are.

More here.