A timed shooting practice app for TAR, TSV, USPSA, Multigun, ICORE, SASS, PRS, silhouette, benchrest, F-Class, CMP Highpower, muzzle loading, ISSF 25 m, NRA Bullseye, Steel Challenge, IDPA and free drills, with every transition signalled by vibration and tone.
It covers nineteen disciplines, keeps score and history, and has experimental shot detection. Available on the Connect IQ store for the fenix, tactix, forerunner, enduro, epix, venu, vivoactive and instinct series.
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Detailed description
ShotPace runs the clock so you can keep your eyes on the target.
Practising alone means there is nobody to call the line. ShotPace gives the commands, times them exactly, and signals every transition on your wrist, so you never have to look at the watch during a string.
Personal practice only
The TAR rulebook forbids connected watches on the firing line in competition and official training. ShotPace is built for personal practice outside any official setting. One governing body does permit a device under conditions, and the app says so per discipline, but permission is not endorsement: a Match Director outranks any rulebook, and your club's bylaws may be stricter than the federal ones. Check locally.
Nineteen disciplines
TAR and TSV, NRA Bullseye, ISSF 25 m, IDPA, USPSA, ICORE, SASS, USPSA Multigun, PRS, NRA Silhouette, IMSSU Silhouette, F-Class, MLAIC Muzzle Loading, CMP Highpower Rifle, CMP As-Issued Military Rifle, IBS Benchrest, Steel Challenge, and SimpleShoot: a clock and a count with no rulebook behind either.
Each is built from its own governing body's book, with the round counts, durations, targets and penalties that book actually prints. Each carries a sheet in the app saying where it comes from, whether the figures have been checked, and what that body says about a watch on the firing line.
Cues you can feel
Every transition vibrates as well as sounds, because behind hearing protection vibration is the only channel that gets through. Vibration, tone and the flashlight switch independently, app-wide or per drill, because a range decides what is acceptable.
Afterwards
Score entry that offers only the values the target can produce. History across every discipline, never totalled or ranked together, because points, hit factors, raw times and group sizes are not comparable quantities. Statistics per event. A FIT activity in Garmin Connect for sessions long enough to be one. A glance with your last session.
Yours to set
Every interval the app chose for you is a setting, and restorable. Build your own drills: copy a catalogue event and change it, or start from nothing.
English and French throughout
Except the range commands, which stay in the language that competition is conducted in. A French shooter running the interface in English still reads TIREZ; an English speaker still reads Standby and Hit factor in French. Those are the words someone will shout at you, and the wrong reflex is a safety problem rather than a cosmetic one.
Shot detection is experimental
The watch can count shots from the recoil impulse in its accelerometer. It is off by default and behind a limitations screen you have to read. It is not a certified timer, it will not catch every shot, and no recoil means no detection: air rifles and 10 m ISSF are outside it by physics. Every count stays editable before it is saved, and a count never records a score on its own. Do not use it where a score depends on the count. Connect IQ exposes no microphone on any device, so this is not acoustic detection and never will be.
Permissions
Three, and it still runs if you refuse any of them. FIT and FitContributor write the activity you see in Garmin Connect. Sensor is the accelerometer, used only for detecting shots by recoil. Nothing leaves the watch: no account, no network call, no telemetry.
Not affiliated
FFTir, IPSC, NRA, ISSF, IDPA, USPSA, ICORE, SASS, PRS, SCSA, IMSSU, IBS, CMP and MLAIC are named only to say which rulebook a mode follows. ShotPace is not endorsed by or affiliated with any of them.
