As the author of two books on iPhone software development published by the prestigious IT published O’Reilly you would expect any iPhone / iPod Touch application by Jonathan Zdziarski would be of high quality. He does not disappoint with his ballistics calculator simply named “Ballistic”.
Quite frankly there are to many features to list so I will summarize coolest ones:
- Ballistics Library with over 1500 bullets. No need to go online to find ballistic coefficients.
- Automatic weather conditions. It uses the GPS to find your location and look up weather conditions online.
- If mounted on a rifle it can automatically calculate the angle and adjust measurements accordingly.
- Range log (see screenshot below).
Range Log
Windage Charts
HUD Display (Field Tactical Edition)
Two versions are available. The Standard Edition (iTunes Store link) costs $7.99 and the Field Tactical Edition (iTunes store link) costs $9.99. The Field Tactical features an HUD designed to be use on iPhones that are mounted on the rifle.
More info about the app here.
We have seen some cool iPhone applications come out for shooting sports. But nothing comes close to the sheer awesomeness of the Knights Armaments M110 iPod Touch mount and accompanying ballistics software.
The M110 is the 7.62×51mm semi-automatic sniper system which won the Army’s competition to replace the aging M24 bolt action sniper system. While it will not replace the M24 in the near future, the system is seeing action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The rifle is based on the SR-25, which in turn is based on the Stoners’ AR-10 design.
Knights Armaments have developed a mounting system for the iPod Touch that attaches to a side mounted picatinny rail. The mount attaches to an Otterbox protective case.
Click to expand. Photo ⓒ Chen “SMGLee” Lee. Used with permission.
Click to expand. Photo ⓒ Chen “SMGLee” Lee. Used with permission.
KAC contracted Runaway technologies to build an external ballistics calculator for the iPod Touch / iPhone named Bullet Flight. It is your standard ballistics application. You can set firearm / ammunition profiles, then call up the saved profile and enter your environment information, for example, distance, wind direction, elevation and temperature.
The application is available from the iTunes store for $11.99. It is a lot more expensive than the $4.99 iSnipe application.
We may yet see an iPhone on the battlefield 
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.
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 (See update below).
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.
UPDATE: iSnipe has been updated and how includes many new features including temperature, weather conditions, air pressure etc.
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.
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