PMCI - September 2021

COMPANY FORMATION
He formed the company with two close friends, one another
Infantry Officer and another, a Special Forces Officer, both of whom
he had served with in Australia and on deployments and both with
significant operational experience training soldiers. Between them
they had collectively taught thousands of soldiers to shoot from all
different backgrounds including Australian soldiers to international
military personnel from Afghanistan, Iraq and Papua New Guinea.
This enabled them to build in targeted lessons and analytic tools to
make learning to shoot easier. Initially, Virtual-Shot was designed
for training soldiers to shoot better, however they soon learned that
civilian shooters faced the same issues as soldiers when preparing
for war…
Practicing and learning to shoot as a civilian is hard, because
ammunition is not always available due to the cost of ammo, getting
to a range can also be difficult, and the current simulation systems
were not easily accessible. Along the way they also realised that their
simulation system also worked perfectly on 6mm platforms. Not
only this, but it could also teach someone to shoot effectively with
an airsoft platform and that the skills they could teach with Virtual-
Shot and a “6mm Trainer” could translate to real marksmanship
skills, meaning you could effectively almost learn to shoot a rifle
without ever firing a live round! It is basically a whole shooting
range on your phone, making it the most accessible and affordable
virtual shooting system in the world in my opinion!
GETTING IT DOWN
Once you have bought Virtual-Shot from the company:
• First – you download the Virtual-Shot APP to your phone.
• Then – you connect the specialized mount your rifle, handgun
or Airsoft gun and attach your smartphone. Your phone becomes a
portable shooting range!
The app tracks the precise movement of your rifle in real time
and detects the “shot” when you dry-fire your 6mm “trainer”. The
simulation includes an advanced range that lets you adjust target
distance, target movement, and the wind conditions. The built-in
ballistics system mimics real world bullet trajectories allowing you
to shoot with real world bullet drop effects. In addition to all this it
also includes a full interactive video course taught by a veteran army
sniper to give you the theory for all skills you need to become an
expert marksman whether you have been shooting for a while or
even if you have never shot before.
The app includes game modes that allow you to have fun
hunting deer or blasting zombies. Or there is a traditional range,
a junk yard with glass bottles, exploding fuel barrels, metal plates,
some of which are on swing poles. It also has a “Versus” feature,
that allows you to compete against your friends using built in
leaderboards. Another perk Virtual-Shot has is the ability to project
the application onto a screen allowing it to be used as a coaching
tool to assist others with their shooting.
I tried both the scope mount set up first and then the open sight
version. The scoped version is very clever in that the lower righthand
side of the screen is a magnified scope and the rest of the
screen is as the other eye (not looking through the scope) would
see it. The app also allows you to move the scope on the screen to
either the center or the left side for left-handed shooters. I mounted
the scope attachment onto my picatinny rail after removing my red
dot sight; for testing I was using an AR platform. Their open sights
version allowed me to put my red dot back on and use it to aim.
To zero your optic to the phone it has a red dot on the screen
which you adjust in the app settings to sit directly behind your actual
red dot or center of your optic when the phone is mounted in the
frame on your picatinny site rail in front of the optic on your gun.
This way where you aim the airsoft gun is replicated in the range
on the app. The open sights option allows you to use this on a pistol
so long as your pistol has a rail in front of the trigger guard like a
Glock or a Sig P226 to mount the frame onto. Another nice feature
is having to change magazine or move the gun over to one side
to replicate reloading. My favorite levels are the “zombie” and the
“junk yard” ones as they have the most variety and intensity as you
progress up the levels.
Has Virtual-Shot made an effect on my actual shooting? I would
say yes, as it teaches you all the theory of marksmanship on the
video. Then, you get to try and learn for yourself in the virtual range.
With that in mind I recommend this to anyone that shoots or simply
anyone that wants to keep on getting trigger time even if they
can’t get to a range for whatever reason. VIRTUAL SHOT is available
worldwide with stock in the US, UK, Europe and Australia so you
won’t even have to wait long until you receive your
order!
You can check them out for yourself at www.virtualshot.com
6MM TRAINING - VIRTUAL SHOT
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