How many fit inside a playing card?
Print the Tighter target, shoot it, then photograph it at the bench. Tighter finds every hole, measures your group, and shows it against something you already know the size of.
The iPhone app is coming to the App Store. The target is free either way.
0/10
inside a playing card, at 7 yards
From the range to the number
Print the target
Free, Letter or A4, almost no ink. Print at 100% and measure the 2-inch bar once so every inch stays an inch.
Shoot it
Like any other target. Keep the distance and shot count the same each visit and your visits become comparable.
Photograph it at the bench
Tighter finds the four corner squares, flattens the photo and marks every hole. Holes that touch get flagged for you to confirm. It never guesses a count.
See it against a playing card
The paper fades, a card drops in at true size, and you get the count. Next visit, your first group shows up dashed underneath today's.
Plate to quarter
Every group gets a rung: the smallest everyday thing that holds the whole group. Everybody starts somewhere on this row. Drawn here at true relative size.
- Dinner plate10 in across
- Saucer6 in across
- CD4.72 in across
- Playing card2.5 × 3.5 in
- Business card2 × 3.5 in
- Golf ball1.68 in across
- Quarter0.955 in across
What it measures
- Inside a playing card
- Hits inside a real 2.5 × 3.5 inch card, centred where you aimed. Swap the card for a CD, a plate or a quarter.
- Group size
- The smallest circle around every hole, centre to centre. One definition, used everywhere.
- Smaller than your first
- Same target, same distance, group diameter against your first. Shown the moment you earn it.
- The trend
- Your last three groups against the three before: improving, holding steady or slipping. Until you have six, it says it's too early.
What it won't do
- Tell you why
- A group's shape doesn't prove what your hands did, so Tighter measures the paper and leaves the coaching to you and your instructor. Your notes go next to each target.
- Upload your photos
- The scan runs on your phone. The photo isn't even kept unless you turn that on. No account.
- Flatter you
- A target with unconfirmed shots says so, on screen and on the card. Different distances never get compared. Seven of ten never becomes seven of seven.
Share the card, not the photo
Cards carry the holes, the number and the distance. No photo, no place, no time of day. Bring someone along and Together hides the names until you both guess whose target is whose, and makes a joint card only when you both say yes.
Free to score every target
Free
- Three automatic scans a month, then mark holes by hand, unlimited
- Every result, your history and your first Shrink
- Every share card, in three styles
- Together, for two people on one phone
Pro
- Unlimited automatic scans
- The trend: improving, holding or slipping, from your last six comparable targets
- One plan covers both people on the phone
Print one before your next range day.
Ask your range whether you can hang your own paper. If they hand out their own targets, Tighter lets you mark those by hand.
Questions about printing or scanning? Support has the short answers.