ATTN: iPhone users, how do you utilize this device in your shooting hobby?

R.W.Dale · Oct 5, 2009

I'm just looking for ideas that I may not have thought of.

Here's a couple ways I use mine.

1. With the "ballistic" app I keep track of pet loads using the load data feature as well of course external ballistics

2. Using Hodgon's online reloading data center I pull up and store load data in one of two ways. I either can take a pic of the "print" page for the specific load OR I've started using the e-mail load feature to have loads sent to a specific e-mail folder in my mail app

FLR72 · Oct 5, 2009

Me personally, most likely as a target, after it gets the best of me.

taliv · Oct 5, 2009

for me, mainly

Knight's bulletflight ballistic calculator

Surefire's shot timer

misc other stuff

edit: i also use the GPS in the field. and I use the camera to take pictures of groups on steel targets before i paint them sometimes

(Pb) · Oct 5, 2009

I've shot an iPod,

but not an iPhone yet

TX1911fan · Oct 5, 2009

Never mind. I figured it out.

R.W.Dale · Oct 5, 2009

TX1911fan said:
Which ballistic app is that?

http://ballistic.zdziarski.com/

I just have the $10 standard version

mljdeckard · Oct 5, 2009

I'm sure Steve Jobs is THRILLED about this.

wrc · Oct 5, 2009

I don't have an iPhone, I have an android G1 phone. However, based on the hardware out there, I bet any smartphone with a microphone would make a passable shot timer.

Anyone know of any apps doing that?

taliv · Oct 5, 2009

see post #3, wrc

R.W.Dale · Oct 5, 2009

Thanks Taliv for filling us in on that surefire app (post 3) I just downloaded it, that's what this thread is about

OHtard · Oct 5, 2009

surefire shot timer. works great when i forget to charge my ced 7000.

R.W.Dale · Oct 5, 2009

another use I didn't think of before is taking gun pics, editing them and the uploading them to photobucket for use here

taliv · Oct 5, 2009

np, krochus. rsilvers also has an app that has a ton of suppressed/unsuppressed combo audio. basically, you just select the gun, whether you want to hear it suppressed or unsuppressed, and whether you want semi-auto or full-auto, and it plays your selection so you can do some relative comparison. (within the obvious limits of iphone speaker)

not terribly useful, but good for a few minutes of entertainment

oh, and i subscribe to a bunch of gun-related podcasts

Kansan · Oct 6, 2009

I'm reading this thread and typing this message on my iPhone, does that count?

armoredman · Oct 6, 2009

I have a cell phone under protest, I most certainly am NOT going to attach one of those infernal devices to my rifle!

Prince Yamato · Oct 6, 2009

If only there was an external device you could plug into the iPhone to use as a motion tracker alla Aliens...

LemmyCaution · Oct 6, 2009

I'm sure Steve Jobs is THRILLED about this.

I just googled "Steve Jobs" "Gun Control" and came up with zero, zilch, nada, nothing that would support the above snark.

Steve Jobs is a very successful businessman. If KAC can create an App that sells iPhones, I'm sure Steve Jobs is happy to see Apple's sales increase.

One would be advised to question whether one's cultural assumptions about users and manufacturers of particular brands consumer electronics have any grounding in reality.

But I waste bandwidth here.

I use BulletFlight.

And I'm sending this from my Macintosh.

Keb · Oct 6, 2009

I have a Sprint HTC Windows Mobile touch screen with the whole BlueBook on CD installed as a PDF, including the grading guide photos.

glockman19 · Oct 6, 2009

I have an i-phone and the Ballistics program. I like it a lot.

wrc · Oct 6, 2009

Shot timer for Android

Someone out there has written one for Android, but it doesn't seem to be in Android Market yet.

It's at http://tinyurl.com/nnetgs, which resolves to http://tinytimstikitavern.com/media/ShotClock.apk

Related thread on somethingawful.com

So far it works when I snap my fingers

taliv · Oct 6, 2009

the shot timer on iphone always picks up the first and last shot (most important) but it does miss a lot of shots in rapid-fire. when i practice 10-rnd mag-dumps into pie plates with my 22lr sig trailside, it usually picks up about 3-7 of the shots. i wouldn't recommend using one for any idpa/ipsc/3gun competition where the shooters are serious

Aw4g63 · Oct 6, 2009

Wow, the Otter box with the rail mount is too sweet.

My employer provides me with a Black Berry. After having it for 2 months, I blew the speaker (Ringer) out while at the range. I had it sitting next to me as I shot my AR. Pretty funny. Mean while my brothers Iphone has made it to every trip and never been harmed.

relocker · Oct 6, 2009

I bet any smartphone with a microphone would make a passable shot timer.

A smartphone WITHOUT a microphone doesn't sound very smart at all! :neener:

"CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!?!"

Sorry. Don't mean any offense. I'm just a new guy making jokes...

Frank Ettin · Oct 6, 2009

I call the range to see if it's open. (BTW, there is a shot timer application for the iPhone.)

revsoft · Feb 26, 2010

It is now

It's 99 cents.

It isn't a replacement for a real shot timer but I have had no problems using it at the range for practice purposes.

If you have the Barcode Scanner app, the following image will take you to where you need to go.

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