A very clear day with the cold temperature of mid-December that we were no longer used to was the setting for an event that can be defined as historic: the Beretta has put in place one App for the control of skeet shooting, said Shooting Date. This is not technically an absolute novelty because other sports have adopted similar equipment, but the House of Gardone is the first to make it available for clay pigeon shooting, the specialty to which for many decades it has dedicated a focused and insightful attention that is sublimated in the production of a whole series of specialized rifles, appropriately declined on different price classes. This policy satisfies those who approach the platform for the first time as well as those who practice it for amateur interest in a whole series of competitions at many levels, arriving then to the top shooters who at the Olympics as well as at the World Championships entrust their competitive fortunes to the Beretta over-under. Electronics works miracles, it is appropriate to say it, and we try to explain, we who are so little versed in the sector, what has been implemented.
Once in the welcoming spaces of the Conca Verde reserved for the House that invited us, we are taken over by specialized people who briefly explain the procedure to follow: after the first words we move on to the facts with the nominative accreditation on the system. Here we begin to understand the substance of the discovery that we try to condense in this way.
An application dedicated to shooting a flight underlies a personal card in the form of a rod the size of a coin, only a little thicker, which is connected to one's email and / or smartphone and to the circuit in possession of the shooting range. When you are accredited, and you do it only once and free of charge for all systems equipped with the system, you can access the platform where a small keyboard, next to the phono pull, allows you to start the series: the rod is brought close to a light flashing which, in a couple of seconds, detects the data and becomes fixed.
The shooting can begin: obviously you will have paid the amount due in advance: there is still no direct connection with your credit card or debit card, but we do not doubt that soon it will also come to this. For each target, the system records the break or zero based on the sound of the bell, while a friend placed behind us or the shooter personally can intervene with the keyboard providing a further indication such as the rejected target (target that comes out already broken) and the point obtained with a second rod. These are the salient data referring precisely to the technical and competitive action which are flanked by several other surveys ranging from weather data of temperature, humidity, wind, the position on sea level of the facility, then again the direction of each individual target, the firing timing, both of the first and any second shot. You can add still other personal data such as the hours before the race and so on, to complete a picture that is all the more fragmented in the surveys the more useful in associating the results achieved with them.
Let's not go further thinking that we have already sufficiently illuminated the instantaneous curiosity following such a discovery: think of the examination of every single data, the considerations that can be drawn from it, the comparisons between different shooting sessions, those with your own friends and competitors, being studied, even at a distance, by the coach of competitive shooters who, using these functions, can see some repetitive defects and remedy them.
In short, a door has not simply been opened, a wall has been knocked down, seeing horizons that will gradually become more and more interesting, reachable and harbingers of better performance, equally discovering the aggregation strength of such a system: not for nothing to skeet shooting already equipped with Beretta Shooting Date many others are being added who have promptly identified in this App a brilliant instigation to let an ever-increasing number of people experience the emotion of the platform, who will become a significant percentage of passionate practitioners, ready to spread the word of that orange elf who kidnaps the spirit and the mind.