Three years of one shooter's standing, from the SCATT traces

A SCATT session gives you a score and a squiggle on a screen. Underneath, it records where the rifle was pointing many times a second for every shot. Read across months of sessions, those traces show things the score alone hides: when your hold got better or worse, whether a bad shot came from the hold or from the break, what changes when you rush, and even what you saw in the holds you took down and didn't fire.

Everything on this page comes from Conrad's own SCATT files. A report like this can be made from yours.

The long view

Each point is one month's median hold: how far the aim point wandered in the last second before each shot. Lower is steadier. Larger points mean more sessions that month.

• 2023–2024: the hold mostly sat between 1.1 and 1.4 MOA.
• Dec 2024 – Jan 2026: it came down to 0.8–0.95 MOA and held there for over a year. Dec 2025 and Jan 2026 were the steadiest months on record, and the best for score (9.90 points per shot).
• From Feb 2026: it stepped back up, to about 1.2 MOA by summer. The trace data put the change in February, which narrowed down what to look for.
• Oct 27, 2026: one session came back to 1.05 MOA, the steadiest since April.

Three snapshots

One typical session from each period. Each dot is a shot. The open circle is the centre of where the rifle was hovering in the last second before it, and the line joins them. A short line means the shot went where the rifle was held. Rings are the X, 10 and 9 of the SR target at 200 yd, at true size.

Between January and August the score barely moved, 198 to 195. The traces show more than that: the hold got about 50% looser, and the group spread with it. In October the hold came part of the way back.

One afternoon, two sessions

On Oct 27 Conrad shot the 198 above, then a second 20 shots 50 minutes later, in a hurry. The second scored 194. The traces show what the hurry changed.

• Each shot got the same aim time. The rushed session was shorter because Conrad took down less often and moved between shots faster.
• The hold faded in the second half. Four of the six 9s came in shots 10–15. The first session didn't fade.
• The takeaway: in a hurry, he settled less and fired more of the poor holds. When a hold isn't settling, take down and start again.

The shots not taken

SCATT records every approach, not only the shots fired. The report picks out the takedowns, approaches that stayed in the 8 ring for at least a second and then came down without a shot, and measures them the same way as the shots. So you can see what you were rejecting when you reset.

These are the last 3 seconds of every approach in the 2:39 session, fired on the left and taken down on the right. Colours follow SCATT: green from 3 s to 1 s before, yellow from 1 s to ¼ s, and blue for the last quarter second. A grey dot marks the shot, and a red tail shows the rifle leaving the target after a takedown.

• The takedowns weren't shaky holds. They were steadier than the shots Conrad fired. What they had in common was where they sat: about 2.3 MOA off centre, out in the 9 ring, with under a quarter of the last second in the 10.
• So the reset was the right call. Those were steady holds pointed in the wrong place, and firing them would have meant 9s. Only one of the seven was centred.
• In the rushed session he reset only 4 times. Fewer off-centre holds were rejected, and more 9s were fired.
• The same holds true across 2026: over 112 sessions, takedowns were as steady as the holds fired (median ratio 1.01). So steadiness isn't what makes him reset. In the 2:39 session, where the rifle was pointing was.

The score never shows any of this. A session with seven well-judged resets and one with none can post the same number. The traces of every approach are in the SCATT file, so sending all your sessions also sends all your resets.

What gets measured

Hold

How far the aim point wanders from its own average over the last second before the shot (SD radius). Split into sideways and vertical.

Time in the 10

Share of that last second the aim point spent inside the 10 ring.

Shot vs. hover

Distance from the shot to the centre of the last second of aim. When this grows while the hold stays the same, the problem is at the break, not in the hold.

Group size

Extreme spread of the shots, with the SD of shot positions in parentheses, plus the mean radius from the group centre.

Takedowns

Approaches of at least 1 s continuously in the 8 ring that ended without a shot. Measured over the same windows as fired shots, so the two compare fairly.

Fade

Hold over the first half of a session against the second half.

Trends

Every measure, month by month, against your own history.