On the Apple Watch
The watch runs the whole round, from picking a discipline to saving the scorecard.
Discipline list
The first screen every time the app opens. Tap a discipline to head to its start screen.
- Discipline rows
- Each row shows the discipline's icon, name, and its shape in shorthand: 25 clays · 5 st · 2 shots means 25 targets per round across 5 stations, with up to 2 shots allowed per single. Disciplines with pairs show the mix instead, so 3S + 1P is three singles and one pair per station.
- Where they come from
- Disciplines are created and edited in the iPhone app and sync to the watch automatically, which is why the list is read-only here.
Start screen
One last stop before shooting. Pressing Start hands scoring over to the watch. After this you only tap to flag misses.
- ‹ Disciplines
- Back to the discipline list.
- Station 1
- Where you'll start the round. Tap it to pick a different peg, and the watch remembers your choice per discipline.
- Start
- Begins the round. Shot detection turns on and the scoring screen appears.
Starting station
If your squad starts you on a different peg, tell the app where you begin so the station numbers on your scorecard match the ground.
- Station wheel
- Pick any station the discipline defines (Station 1 up to the discipline's station count).
- Set / Cancel
- Set saves the choice, and the app remembers it per discipline for next time. Cancel leaves it unchanged.
During the round
This screen runs the whole round hands-free. Every detected shot scores the next clay as a hit, and you only touch the screen to flag a miss. When you lower your wrist the screen switches to a big high-contrast score, and detection keeps running.
- Score counter
- Hits over shots taken so far. 4/5 means you've hit 4 of the 5 clays you've shot at.
- Progress line
- St. 1 · Tgt 3 of 5 shows the station you're on and which target of that station is next. Pairs read Pair 4 of 4.
- Dot row
- Your last few clays: green = hit, yellow = second-barrel hit, red = miss. The gray dot is the clay that's up next.
- Miss
- Flags your most recent shot as a miss. A pair gets two buttons, 1st and 2nd, one per bird. Tap again to flip a clay back to a hit.
- Hit
- Scores a hit by hand, for the rare shot the sensors don't catch. The round carries on exactly as if the watch had felt it.
- Prev / Next
- Prev undoes the last clay and steps back, which is handy when a slammed car door scores a phantom shot. Next moves on to the next target, and any clay you pass without shooting is recorded as a miss. On the final target it reads End and finishes the round.
- ✕ (top left)
- Abandons the round after asking you to confirm. The score is discarded and nothing is saved.
Round summary
Shown the moment the last clay is scored. By the time you see it, your score is already saved.
- Headline score
- Hits, total clays, and your percentage. Green means 90% or better, yellow is 70 to 89%, and red is anything below that.
- Stations
- One row per station with a dot for every clay (same colors as during the round) and that station's hits/clays.
- Saving
- Automatic. The scorecard saves itself as soon as this screen appears and syncs to your iPhone. If the phone isn't reachable, the watch queues it and delivers it later.
- Done
- Closes the summary and returns to the discipline list, ready for the next round.
Settings
Shot detection is tuned here on the watch, since the wrist wearing the sensor is the best judge. Open it from the bottom of the discipline list.
- G-Force
- The recoil threshold: how hard a jolt must be to count as a shot, from 1.0 to 8.0 G. The default is 4.0 G, and typical shotgun recoil lands between 2 and 4 G. Raise it if knocks are scoring phantom shots. Lower it if real shots go undetected.
- Calibration
- Opens the live calibration screen below, which is the easy way to set the threshold for your gun and load.
- Window
- The double-barrel window, from 0.2 to 2.0 seconds (default 1.5 s). Two shots closer together than this count as one clay: first and second barrel. It only matters where the discipline allows 2 shots per single.
- Screen Brightness
- Advice rather than a control. watchOS dims the screen on its own once you mount the gun and apps can't override that, so for a bright screen between shots set Wake Duration to 70 seconds in the watch's own Settings, under Display & Brightness.
Calibration
Measures your actual recoil at the range so the threshold fits your gun, load and mount. At rest it reads zero, but the numbers move the moment you shoot. Every detection taps your wrist so you know it registered.
- G now
- The live, gravity-removed G-force at your wrist, updating in real time.
- 2 s peak
- The strongest jolt in the last two seconds. After a shot, this is your recoil reading.
- Threshold
- The same G-Force setting as on the Settings screen, adjustable here while you watch live readings.
- Set from last peak
- Fire a few shots, then tap this to set the threshold to about 75% of your measured peak. That's firm enough to ignore knocks and loose enough to never miss a shot.
