tzahoy Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Well, I'm pretty much a newb to action related pistol sports, but have been shooting bullseye and informal PPC for over 20 years. I wanted a timer, but was put off by the price but knew it would be a valuable tool. Well, I stumbled across a program called gun timer for the pocket PC. I installed it on my phone and was testing it out during the free trial period and it works like a charm! I was using it for drills with my air pistol, when I thought wait a minute, I wonder if it works for dry fire? I had to turn the sensitivity up a bit, but no problem! I then tried some reloading drills and it works for that too, but says I fired 14 shots. Turns out it picked up the full moonclip hitting the cylinder, and the cylinder shutting. Hmm, could be another data point for judging reload speed. Anyway, I paid for the full version and for $15 I'm stoked! If you've got a phone that runs windows mobile, try it out! In my searching I noticed Surefire just released a similar app for the iPhone. Probably the only shortcoming I've noticed is the beep is limited by the volume of the speaker in the phone, but it seems most people have electronic muffs these days. Besides 95% of my use will be dry fire and air pistol practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizer Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Wow... that's cool. Too bad I don't have a PPC though. Does the software has an XP version? A link would be good. thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthMuffin Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Link to the product: http://www.guntimer.com/ui/home/home.aspx I helped somewhat in beta testing and suggesting features that action-pistol type shooters would want. I'm almost embarrased to say I haven't had time to use it much since it went gold, but it has a ton of features, including the ability to export your results so you can play with them in your favorite spreadsheet or database. The speaker on my PPC is loud enough for practice, and usable, but not like a real timer. My amplified headphones have an input jack for a radio, I plan to make a cable from my pocketpc's headphone jack into my headphones and see how that works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfinney Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 So those with iPhone won't be left out, there is also an app by Surefire called Shottimer that is similar, and it's free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizer Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Oh crap... None available for the Symbian OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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