Shoot better with AimIQ

AimIQ isn't a scorekeeper — it's a coach. It measures what your shooting is doing, tells you why, and gives you the one thing to work on next. Here's how to use it to actually improve.

The big idea The improvement loop Your first session Read your numbers Use each tool A weekly plan Track progress Avoid these

Why it works

The big idea

Good shooting has two halves, and most people only ever look at one of them.

The result

Where the bullets actually landed — your group on the paper. It tells you what happened, but not why.

The process

What your body and the gun did to produce that group — your stance, your hold, your trigger press, the recoil. This is why it happened.

AimIQ captures both, then connects them. That link is the whole point: not just “your group is low and left,” but “it’s low-left because you’re flinching — here’s the drill that fixes it.” Fix the cause, and the result follows.

The routine

The improvement loop

Every productive practice session is the same five-step cycle. Run it, and you’ll improve measurably instead of just burning ammo.

Shoot

Fire a deliberate group, a timed string, or hold steady for a form clip. Quality over quantity — 5 focused shots beat 50 careless ones.

Capture

Photograph the target, or record the clip / run the timer. It takes under a minute.

Read

Look at the score and the diagnosis. Don’t just note the number — understand the pattern.

Act

Tap Get coaching, then pick one focus area and its drill. One. Trying to fix everything fixes nothing.

Repeat

Run that drill, then shoot again. Over weeks, watch your mean-radius trend drop. That falling line is real progress.

Start here

Your first session

From the Home screen, tap Analyze target.
Take a photo of your paper target — straight on, the whole target in frame, good light.
Tap Set scale and tap two points a known distance apart (e.g. the edges of a 1-inch square), then type that distance in.
Enter your distance to the target and pick your units.
Tap Mark aim → tap where you were aiming. Then Mark hits → tap each hole (the magnifier helps you be exact).
Read your score and diagnosis, then tap Save session.

Tip Shoot at least 5 shots per group. Three holes can look tight by luck; five start telling the truth about your consistency.

Make sense of it

Read your numbers

Here’s what each reading means and — more importantly — what to do about it.

Reading	What it means	What to do
Score / 100	Overall quality of the session.	A quick gut-check. Follow the focus areas to raise it.
Mean radius (MOA)	The average distance of your hits from the group’s centre. The single best measure of precision.	This is your #1 progress number. Track it over weeks; aim to make it smaller.
Group pattern	Where the cluster sits and how it’s shaped (e.g. low-left, vertical string).	Each pattern maps to a specific fault — let the coaching name it and give the fix.
POI offset	How far the group centre is from where you aimed.	Tight but off-centre? That’s a sight adjustment, not a you problem. Wide? That’s technique.
Hold stability	How steady you were in the seconds before the shot.	Low? Work on natural point of aim and breathing.
Arm symmetry	Whether your arms extend evenly.	Uneven? Drive both arms equally into an isosceles lock.
Recoil recovery (ms)	How quickly the gun returns to your aim after each shot.	Slow? Grip higher and firmer with the support hand.
Split times	The seconds between consecutive shots.	Erratic? Slow to a pace where you can call every shot, then compress.

Don't chase the score The most useful number isn’t the score — it’s mean radius in MOA, because it’s honest across distances and shot counts. Watch that trend, not any single session.

The toolkit

Use each tool to improve

Analyze · the result

Group analyzer

Turns a photo into precise numbers and a diagnosis. Use it on every group so you can see, objectively, whether a change actually helped.

Try: shoot two groups — one normal, one with a deliberate “surprise” trigger break — and compare. The data shows you what good feels like.

Form · the process

Form analysis

Reads your stance, grip symmetry and hold from a short video. Great at home with no ammo — your form is most fixable when you’re not also managing recoil.

Try: film a 5-second hold, fix the lowest-scoring bar, film again. Watch the bar climb.

Timing · the process

Shot timer

Times your shots and measures recoil recovery. Speed is worthless without control — use it to find the fastest pace where your hits still stay tight.

Try: run par-time strings, then check the group. Back off the pace until the group is clean, then build speed from there.

Coaching · the link

AI coaching

Pulls your group, form and timing together into one plan. This is where the tools stop being separate numbers and become a single lesson.

Try: read the “next session” goal and make it the only thing you work on next time out.

Beat the flinch first If your coaching keeps pointing at anticipation (low-left groups, slow recoil recovery), prioritise the ball-and-dummy drill: have a partner load some dummy rounds at random. When the gun doesn’t fire, you’ll see the muzzle dip — and seeing it is how you stop doing it.

Make it a habit

A simple weekly plan

You don’t need range access every day. Most improvement happens dry, at home.

Home days (2–4× / week)

10–15 minutes of dry fire. Confirm the gun is clear, then run form analysis and slow, surprise-break trigger presses. Watch your hold-stability bar.

Range day (1× / week)

Warm-up slow-fire group → a few timed strings → a final focused group. Save every session so the trend builds.

Weekly review (5 minutes)

Open History. Look at your mean-radius trend, note your streak, and set one goal for the week from your latest coaching.

Safety first, always Treat every firearm as loaded. Before any dry-fire practice, physically confirm it’s unloaded, point it at a safe backstop, and keep all live ammo in another room.

See it pay off

Track your progress

The History tab is where motivation lives. The trend chart plots your mean radius over time — a line you want sloping down. The green ring marks your best group ever; beating it is the goal. Your day streak on Home rewards showing up, because consistency is what actually makes you better.

Filter by firearm to compare guns, and tap any past session to revisit its breakdown and coaching. Progress in shooting is slow and easy to doubt — the chart is your proof it’s happening.

Save yourself trouble

Avoid these

Angled target photos. Shoot the target square-on, or your measurements drift. Get the whole target flat in frame.
Too few shots. Five or more per group. Small samples lie.
Changing everything at once. Fix one fault per session. You can’t tell what worked if you changed five things.
Inconsistent setup. Same distance, same target, same stance when you’re testing a change — otherwise you’re measuring noise.
Chasing speed too early. Build a tight, repeatable group first; speed is precision you’ve learned to do faster.
Skipping the coaching. The number tells you where you are; the coaching tells you where to go. Read it.