Technology

A common question we get asked is, “why is Athena half the price of our competitors?” And it is true, Athena is half, sometimes even a third or a fourth of the price of our Electronic Scoring Target (EST) competitors. Yet Athena still offers both scoring accuracy and a full featured EST system. ...

Ever wonder how many cups of coffee it took to develop, test, and produce Athena? Probably not, and we wouldn’t blame you if you haven’t. But we were curious. And in between tasks getting Athena ready for you we decided to take a quick programming detour and design a real time coffee counter. ...

Just over three years ago, on June 24th, Scopos changed everything and launched Athena. A modern, full featured, electronic scoring target that is made in the United States. Over 200 clubs with over 2000 firing points now enjoy the benefit of electronic scoring targets in their home range thanks ...

This past week Scopos reached a milestone and manufactured our 2000th Athena Target. An important milestone in our commitment to modernize the sport. In my career I have talked to thousands of people who shared with me their desire to make shooting more appealing and to let it grow. I am proud to ...

A common theme you will notice the first half of this year is almost all of our updates for Orion and Athena are resilience updates. This means we are improving the software to better handle unexpected events. In this release we emphasized three such unexpected events, power loss, internet loss, ...

This past year the Civilian Marksmanship Program and Shooter’s Tech teamed up to develop a new paper target for the Orion Scoring System. The newly developed “300m Rifle reduced for 100yd. Target” (commonly called the 100yd. International target) was used in the National Matches over the ...

AbstractThis article seeks to describe the “EST Error Effect” and the consequence it has when scoring in integer versus decimal. The Electronic Scoring Target (EST) Error Effect means that every shot scored by an EST has some small error that comes with it and that these small errors will have ...