Shot Clock Labs
Four things we're building right now — running on real hardware, at real ranges. This is your first look at them, and your chance to steer where they go next.
Shot Clock without a watch. The whole timer — matches, par times, DOPE cards, notes — running standalone on a round screen with a dial, sitting on the bench in front of you.
A round display you put on the bench or the bay wall, at a size you can read from a few paces rather than at arm's length. It runs on its own battery, so there's no cable to find.
The engine is a direct port of the Garmin one, so the matches, the par times, the sequences and Time Slice all behave exactly as they do on your watch.
A rotating dial rather than a touchscreen to poke at — pick your match and set your times by feel, with gloves on, without a sleeve setting something off.
A vibration motor and lights, so the alerts land the way they do on a wrist. The screen isn't the only thing telling you where you are in the stage.
It has its own WiFi and talks to the Portal directly. Build a sequence on a big screen at home and it's on the device — nothing to pair, nothing to carry.
Build your sequences in the Portal, where there's room to work, and they arrive on the device over WiFi. An editor on the device itself is next on the list.
One clock the whole line can see. An old phone or a spare tablet on the wall, showing the time of day between details and the countdown during them — every shooter on the same second.
It works, and it's in use at ranges now. We're putting the time into the half that drives it from a Match Official's phone, so it's solid before anyone runs a competition on it.
See what Range Clock does
Range Timer moves control of your turning targets — or your horn — onto Shot Clock itself. Start a sequence on your Garmin, Apple Watch, iPhone or Android, and the targets follow it.
It's hardware in its own right: use it on its own, or alongside the target timer your range already has. And because it's Shot Clock doing the driving, the targets follow any sequence in the app — every match in the catalogue, and any custom sequence you've built yourself. Your range stops being limited to the handful of times its gear was wired for.
It also takes the fob out of your hand. Press the button, then work out what to do with the thing before you get on the gun — pocket it, or drop it in the dirt. Start the string with a gesture instead and there is nothing to hold. None of which replaces a range officer or changes the rules your range runs under; it changes what you are carrying while you shoot.
Hardware takes more than getting the software right — supply, support, and a price that's fair to a club. We're lining all of that up now.
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Live Scores without us in the middle. A small box that serves the scoreboard at the range itself, so the scores stay local and private and nothing has to reach the internet.
It joins the club's wireless network, or makes its own where there isn't one, and drives the television straight off its own HDMI socket. Same scoring and the same page as the online board — just served from the bench instead of from us.
See what Live Scores doesWe build things in the order shooters ask for them. Tell us which of these your club would use, and what you'd want it to do — that's what sets the order.
Get in touchPick a match below, or write your own stage and watch it run.
Plus Mode is the run-up before a stage — usually set to however long the targets stay turned away, so you can start the timer before match firing commences and the stage comes in exactly as they turn. It's a setting on the watch rather than part of the sequence: 1–15 seconds, set to 7 here so you can see it work. A sequence beginning with # ignores it.
A stage is a list of phases separated by :. Inside a phase, the first number is the time in seconds and anything after a . is a warning, given as seconds remaining.
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20.10.3 — 20 seconds, warnings at 10 and 3 left3:-5:3 — 3 seconds, 5 seconds facing away, 3 seconds#90.60.30.10.5 — a 90-second PRS par with four warningsPrefixes — # starts immediately, ignoring your Plus Mode lead-in. ^ forces the count upward for that stage.
A minus sign means you are not shooting during that phase — a load period or a turn-away. The watch shows those in blue, and Time Slice sits them out entirely.
A zero on any phase after the first is a pause: the timer stops and waits for you to press start again.
The rules below are the app's own. If the watch would reject what you type, so will this.