Monday Meanderings

Monday, November 17, 2008 Filed in: General gun stuff, Revolvers

iPhone users: now you can turn your phone into a handy shot timer!

Surefire has released a shot timer app for the iPhone, and it's free! All the normal functions are there: fixed delay (user adjustable!), random start and par times, along with sensitivity adjustment.

The timer works quite well, with good sensitivity even in a jacket pocket. Having a list of the shots and splits (as opposed to scrolling through them singly, like a regular timer) makes for easier use. It also boasts the ability to email the output of the timer; I'm not sure if that's of any use, but it's kinda cool!

Check it out at the App Store.

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There is now an online ballistic calculator formatted expressly for the iPhone. I still want a native (i.e., off-line) ballistic calculator, because so many shooting areas are in cell phone dead spots, but for the time being this scratches the itch.

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Marko has written a good article for Dillon's Blue Press on the virtues of the revolver. There's nothing in it that would surprise a die-hard fan of the wheelgun, but it's so well written (as is everything he pens, darn him all to heck) that you should read it anyhow.

Here's a link to the online edition; the article is on pages 60 & 61.

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As long as we're on the topic of good writing, go and read Xavier's post about exposing a new shooter to the revolver.

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I'm busy as a beaver returning emails for waiting list reservations. Don't worry, I'll get to you sometime this week!

-=[ Grant ]=-

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