Guide
Using ClayScope
ClayScope logs and scores your clay target rounds — a quick session total, a full shot-by-shot round, or a whole squad at the trap — and turns them into your averages, straights and miss patterns. It works offline and syncs when you're back on signal. Here's everything you need to get going.
The 30-second version. Create an account, tap Log Round, and pick how much detail you want: Session for a fast total, By Shot for a full round, or By Post to score post-by-post at the trap. Your scores land in History, and your averages build under Analytics.
Contents
1. Getting started
Head to app.clayscope.com and create a free account with your email. During the open beta, every feature is unlocked — there's nothing to buy.
Once you're in, take a moment in Profile to set your home club and, if you shoot registered, your ATA number. Your home club becomes a one-tap shortcut when you log, and each new session remembers the last place you shot — so most days you never touch the club field.
2. Install it on your phone
ClayScope is a web app, so there's no App Store download — you add it to your home screen instead, and it opens full-screen like any other app.
- iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
- Android (Chrome): tap the ⋮ menu, then Install app (or Add to Home screen).
Installing matters because ClayScope is offline-first: your rounds are saved on the device the moment you enter them, so a dead spot at the club never costs you a score. When you're back on signal it syncs automatically in the background.
3. Three ways to log a round
Tap Log Round and choose the entry mode that matches how much detail you have. They all feed the same record and the same averages — the difference is depth.
| Mode | What it captures | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Session | Your total for one or more disciplines — e.g. “23 of 25 singles.” | Logging scores after the fact, or a fast entry between rounds. |
| By Shot | A full round on one screen — tap the targets you missed; everything else counts as a hit. | Recording a round in detail when you can see the whole card at once. |
| By Post | The same shot-by-shot detail, one post at a time, with the screen kept awake. | Scoring yourself live at the trap, station by station. |
Session also handles a whole event in one entry: add a line for each discipline — say 100 singles and 100 handicap — and they save together under one session. In every mode you can backdate the date and time to record a round you shot earlier.
A note on the score
Trap scoring is by exception: every target counts as a hit unless you mark it a miss. So a straight — a clean 25 — is simply a round where you tapped nothing. The big number at the top of the screen is always your running total.
4. By Post: scoring at the trap
By Post is built for scoring in real time while you shoot. Set your discipline, starting post and (for handicap) your yardage, then tap Start scoring. The setup folds away so the big target cells own the screen.
- Mark your misses. Each post shows its five targets — tap any you lost; the rest stay hits. The tally under the post reads Dead (broken) and Lost (missed).
- Move through the line. The grid tracks all five shooting positions, and Next post → rotates you to the next station.
- The screen stays awake the whole time, so it won't sleep between stations.
- Your round is protected. Because the screen stays on, ClayScope guards against a stray tap: once you start scoring, leaving the page asks you to confirm first — so a phone riding in your vest can't quietly drop a round in progress.
Finish the last post and the round saves to your device. From there you can add another round to the same session or finish up.
5. Scoring a squad
You don't have to be the only shooter. From Home, tap 🎯 Score a squad to keep score for a whole trap line.
- Build the squad — add up to five shooters by name (and Shooter ID or ATA number if they have one).
- Keep score for everyone, post by post, on one card.
- Send each shooter their round. When you're done, ClayScope can deliver each person's score to their own account to accept into their history — so the record follows the shooter, not just the scorer's phone.
Only the round you shot together is shared. Everyone's full history — their averages and past rounds — stays private to them.
6. Your history & averages
Two tabs turn your entries into a record:
- History lists every session, newest first, with the score and where you shot it. Open one to see the round detail; you can edit or remove an entry if you fat-fingered a number.
- Analytics is the payoff — your rolling averages by discipline, your straights and longest runs, and, from shot-level rounds, a miss breakdown showing where your lost targets cluster.
Home gives you the at-a-glance version: recent form and your standout streaks without opening the full analytics.
7. ATA registered targets
If you've added your ATA number in Profile, you can tag a session as ATA registered when you log it, and ClayScope keeps that average separate from practice. You can also import past scores to build your history from targets you've already shot.
On accuracy. Scores you enter or import are your own record, kept for your reference — they're self-recorded, not verified against the ATA's official database. Your registered average of record is always the one the ATA publishes.
8. Tips & troubleshooting
- It works with no signal. Log freely at the club; everything syncs when you reconnect. A small badge shows whether a round is saved locally or synced.
- Fix a mistake. Open the session in History to edit a score or delete a round.
- Backdate anything. Change the date and time on the log screen to record a round from a previous day.
- App didn't update? Because it's installed like an app, a new version can take a moment to arrive — fully close it and reopen while online, and you'll be on the latest.
- Delete your account. Profile → Account has a two-step delete that removes your data for good.
Stuck on something not covered here? Email support@clayscope.com and we'll help.