Tips & Tricks

The guide explains where each button sits. This chapter collects the habits that make the difference day to day, and points to the blog for everything else, where each post covers one topic in depth. Calculators and printable templates are under Tools.

Photographing targets

• Background: Place the target on a sheet of white paper or yellow construction paper. A dark background is the most common reason a photo doesn’t get scored.
• Light: White light from the front. No direct sunlight with shadows, no backlight.
• Capture the whole strip: All aiming marks visible, no cut-off edges.
• Hold it straight: Phone parallel to the target, 20 to 30 cm away is enough.
• Nothing in the frame: No fingers or hands on the target.

Photographing printouts and screens

• Photograph directly with the camera, no screenshots of photos or downloaded images. If the resolution is too low, the app warns you.
• Capture the whole page, with the header and all series; lay the paper flat.
• On a screen, avoid reflections and make the results area fill the frame.
• Several photos of the same competition, say several screen pages, are merged by the import on its own.

Further reading on the blog

What the numbers mean is covered briefly in the chapter What Do Your Numbers Say?. In depth, with examples from real series, on the blog:

Photographing and scoring

• Why your photo won’t import, the three most common causes and their fix
• Scoring targets, how decimal scoring is calculated
• Sending a photo from the gallery, Ring Reader in the phone’s share menu
• Why we need error photos, what “Report detection issue” sends us

Understanding the numbers

• Teiler and ring score, why two systems show a different tenth for the same shot
• What would the series have scored without the sight error?, the corrected score and when it’s missing
• What the mean point of impact says about your technique, telling sights from technique by its course
• Adjusting sights with numbers, deriving the correction, recording the clicks, checking the result
• Teiler tables for air rifle, air pistol and smallbore, converting Teiler to tenths and rings
• Teiler calculator, what the calculator does, with inner ten and Teiler factor
• Why Meyton prints so many 0.0 Teilers, how the system forms the Teiler
• Tracking your progress, records, goals and trends
• Season start: set up your training diary, eight steps with a time budget
• Your first ten series, what already means something after series 1, 3, 5 and 10
• Insights: six cards, and how to tell whether the data is enough

Importing results

• Importing competition results, WM-Shot and Meyton step by step
• Import Meyton results, PDF, QR code, photo, XML and CSV compared
• Import DISAG results, printout, Rückschau, ShotsApp and JSON compared
• Shooting results in one app, how paper, Meyton, DISAG and the rest end up in one history
• For clubs: making competition results available, how a club gives its members WM-Shot, Meyton and DISAG results

Competitions and groups

• Online challenges, from invite code to leaderboard
• Training rosters, share results or keep them private

Background

• How Ring Reader began

New posts are added here as they appear.