Track Your Shooting Progress: Goals, Records, and Trends

March 12, 2026 · 5 min read

You train every week. Mondays air rifle, maybe Thursdays too. After each string you know your score — 98.3 today, 97.8 last week. But are you actually getting better? Or have you been bouncing between 96 and 99 for months without any real improvement?

The problem is not your training. The problem is that a single score says nothing about progress. Progress only becomes visible when you compare many results over a longer period — and nobody does that by hand.

What a single result does not tell you

A 98.3 is a good result. But what does it mean in context? Is that your average? Your best in three weeks? Or does your average actually sit at 99.1 and today was an off day?

Without historical data, you cannot answer that. And without an answer, you are training blind — you have no idea whether the technique change you made last week is helping or whether you should revert it immediately.

Personal Records

Ring Reader Pro tracks your personal bests automatically:

• Best shot — your highest single shot in decimal scoring.
• Best strip — your highest total score on a strip.
• Best teiler — your closest shot to the absolute center.

When you set a new record, you see it immediately on the result page. That sounds like a small thing, but it changes how you perceive your training. Instead of “decent session today,” it becomes: “New personal best teiler — 4.2, down from 5.1.”

Training goals

Records show you where you stand. Goals show you where you want to go. In Ring Reader Pro, you can set concrete targets:

• Hit a specific strip score (e.g. “100.0 in a 10-shot string”)
• Get your teiler below a target value
• Train a certain number of times per month

Your progress is shown visually. With every result, you see how close you are to your goal — and that keeps you coming back.

A concrete goal changes training quality. Instead of “I will go shoot today,” it becomes: “I want to average below 8 teiler this week.” That alone makes you more focused on the firing line.

Spot the trends

The analytics page in Ring Reader Pro shows your results as charts across any time range. You see:

• Score trend — is your average rising? Stagnating? Dropping?
• Teiler trend — are you shooting more precisely than a month ago?
• Shot distribution — where do your shots land? Do you pull right? Always high?

I check my trends once a week, usually on Sundays. It takes 30 seconds and gives me a clear picture: things are working or they are not. When my teiler trend has been climbing for three weeks, I change something — position, trigger, breathing. Without the trend, I would not have noticed.

Activity streaks and performance streaks

Ring Reader Pro also tracks how consistent you are:

• Activity streak — how many consecutive weeks you trained at least once. My longest streak: 14 weeks. I do not want to break it.
• Performance streak — how many consecutive results came in above your average. If you are above average five sessions in a row, something is going right.

Streaks sound simple, but they have a strong psychological effect. When you know you have trained for 8 consecutive weeks, you think twice before skipping one.

The full picture

Ring Reader is free to use — scan targets, see scores, store up to 10 results. That is enough to try the app and see if it works for you.

But if you train regularly and want to improve, you need the full picture: trends, records, goals, history. That is Ring Reader Pro.

Pro costs €24.99 one-time — no subscription, no monthly fees. Buy once, use forever. Including all future updates.

For the price of a tin of pellets, you get a tool that shows whether your training is working.