#Iphone

Attaching your smartphone to your gun is nothing new, Inteliscope has their pretty cool system and app that they released a few years back, there was also the MeoPix for spotting scopes. I ran into iScope at the SHOT Show and they had a very interesting adapter. It’s a pretty simple setup, the iScope attaches to most rifle scopes on the market. It attaches to your scopes eye piece up to 48mm via four felt tipped screws. Attached to that is an adapter that holds your smartphone in place, turn on your phones video recorder and start filming your hunt or range day then upload it to YouTube, Instagram whatever.

This past March I bought the Ballistic app for my iPad and played a little with it. A number of you readers jumped in with comments, and the general consensus is that the app was great, but the interface was complicated and documentation was sparse.

Earlier this year we wrote about a British teenager whose life was apparently saved by an Apple iPhone 5C. We were skeptical so I asked James to test how plausible this was.

Miles Vining Time on Target App ReviewIn this video, Miles Vining takes a look at a recent App store app that has been released and is designed to help shooters work on various training drills either in a group or alone by the use of their iPhones.

If you’d like to use your iPhone 6 to record images obtained through the lens of your Swarovski scope, well, now you can. Swarovski is now making a PA-i6 Adapter, which turns long-range optics into the equivalent of a telephoto lens. Simply attach the adapter rings to your scope, attach your iPhone 6 using the aluminum frame, and you’re good to go. Considering the frequency with which many of us, myself included, have attempted to line up our cell phones with our scopes to take a picture, this kind of device is more than welcome. According to the company the frame included for your iPhone 6 can be left in place for protection after removing the adapter rings.

Remember that iPhone in the UK that saved a man from a shotgun blast? Here’s a bunch of different generation iPhones and a Samsung Galaxy vs an AK-74 shooting a steel core round, I’m guessing it has a tad more penetration than birdshot from a shotgun. Guess how many iPhones bought the farm? Check it out below.

A buddy of mine that is into precision shooting (and who has been pestering me to get into it also) swears by an app “ Ballistic” (by Peak Studios, LLC).  They just released their 6th Edition a few weeks ago, so I finally bit and decided to download the iPad version (it is not a universal app so you have to buy the iPhone and iPad separately).

We saw Flir bring out the Flir One, a thermal imager for the iPhone. Well now MSM Labs is making the NVC case for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. NVC stands for Night Vision Camera. The NVC case also acts as a battery backup and has a microSD card slot for storing the images and videos shot with this camera.

Thanks to Almon Benton for sending this into us here at TFB. He got a new iPhone 6 and tested out the slow motion feature of the video camera. He was able to capture an impressive fireball out of his AR pistol.

A neat object but probably not a good idea with how the public views anything remotely firearm shaped.

Thanks to ENDO for this gem.

FLIR, the largest manufacturer of thermal technologies, and the original inventor of Forward Looking Infra-Red, surprised everyone at CES this year by announcing a compact and affordable thermal imager that fits on an iPhone.

Most of us at TFB, with a couple of exceptions, are Android fans, so we are pleased to see Magpul is now making Field Cases for the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy S4, as well as the iPad Mini (non Retina version).

Carry Alerts is a new iPhone app that runs in the background and will alert you when you are near a local, state or federal gun free zone as well as reminding you to do what you need to do when you get close to an international border. The app is designed with conceal carry holders in mind who want to avoid inadvertently breaking the law.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation have published a free app called Where To Shoot that locates shooting ranges near you in the US and Canada.  It is is available for  iOS and  Android.