February 29, 2024 in Drills Mars Mobile Project MARS Setup Guides Shooting Modes

USPSA Style Printable Targets

Printable USPSA Style Target Template Project MARS is designed to use USPSA style targets. While we realize that not everyone have USPSA style cardboard targets on hand (they can be cut from cardboard as well), we wanted to provide a free Downloadable target template that can be printed and cut out for usage with dryfire training.

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February 29, 2024 in Drills Mars Mobile Project MARS

Plate Rack Drill with MARS Mobile

Plate Rack Drill with MARS Mobile

What is a Plate Rack Drill? A plate rack drill is an incredibly powerful drill for testing your ability to transition between targets. Simply put, it consists in it’s most basic form of putting 1 round onto 6 plates each, as quickly as you can. How to Perform a Plate Rack Drill? Performing a Plate Rack Drill using Dryfire with Project MARS Project MARS supports running plate rack drills at home. To perform this drill, cut up to 6 circles out of cardboard about 6″ in diameter each. Ideally, you’ll have a laser dry fire setup that will allow you

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February 28, 2024 in Mars Mobile Project MARS Shooting Modes

Calibration Mode with MARS Mobile

Calibration Mode with MARS Mobile

How to Use the Calibration Mode MARS Mobile features both drills, as well as more general shooting modes. The shooting modes are set up in such a way that you can define your own drills to supplement the drills MARS supports out of box. Every phone, laser device, training environment, and target combination is different. While our default settings should work for most users, MARS Mobile wants to give you full control over how sensitive the shot detection is so that you can calibrate your dryfire training to your particular equipment. The calibration mode will help you fine tune the

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February 24, 2024 in Mars Mobile Project MARS

MARS Mobile Privacy Policy

MARS Mobile Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy This privacy policy is applicable to the MARS Mobile Dryfire Training app (hereinafter referred to as “Application”) for mobile devices, which was developed by CHOICEMARKET TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (hereinafter referred to as “Service Provider”) as a a Freemium service. This service is provided “AS IS”. What information does the Application obtain and how is it used? User Provided Information The Application acquires the information you supply when you download and register the Application. Registration with the Service Provider is not mandatory. However, bear in mind that you might not be able to utilize some of the features offered by

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February 24, 2024 in Mars Mobile Project MARS Setup Guides

How to Setup MARS Mobile

How to Setup MARS Mobile

Introduction Project MARS stands for Marksmanship Augmented Reality Simulators. We want to make dryfire training commonplace in order to raise the bar on firearms safety and general marksmanship skills amongst responsible gun owners. MARS mobile is our first product in a line of virtual shooting simulators. To do this, we focus in on practical shooting skills, rather than focusing on accuracy solely alone. This is what separate Project MARS from other dryfire simulator products. Multi Target Focus Bullseye shooting is not the goal of our app, and there are other apps that are better suited for that purpose. Rather, MARS

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February 24, 2024 in Mars Mobile Project MARS Shooting Modes

Multi Target Mode with MARS Mobile

Multi Target Mode with MARS Mobile

How and Why to Use the Multi Target Shooting Mode MARS Mobile features both drills, as well as more general shooting modes. The shooting modes are set up in such a way that you can define your own drills to supplement the drills MARS supports out of box. The multi target shooting mode has no time constraint, but allows you to engage multiple targets with a specified number of hits. It allows you to define how many hits are required for each individual target, making it more flexible than the quick start “2-2-2” and V-Tac drills, which are essentially the

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February 24, 2024 in Mars Mobile Project MARS Shooting Modes

Scoring Mode with MARS Mobile

Scoring Mode with MARS Mobile

How to Use the Scoring Shooting Mode MARS Mobile features both drills, as well as more general shooting modes. The shooting modes are set up in such a way that you can define your own drills to supplement the drills MARS supports out of box. The scoring shooting mode has no time or number of hit restraints, much like the free shooting mode. However, it does have score tracking. This is useful if you want to run your own drills while tracking specific metrics like USPSA target zone hits, or if you want to run a small competition with some

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February 24, 2024 in Mars Mobile Project MARS Shooting Modes

Free Shooting Mode with MARS Mobile

Free Shooting Mode with MARS Mobile

How to Use the Free Shooting Mode MARS Mobile features both drills, as well as more general shooting modes. The shooting modes are set up in such a way that you can define your own drills to supplement the drills MARS supports out of box. The free shooting mode has no restraints. There are no maximum number of hits, no score keeping, and there is no timer. Why and When to Use the Free Shooting Mode I use the free shooting mode personally most often when testing new guns and gear. It’s very easy to setup as you can get

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February 24, 2024 in Drills Mars Mobile Project MARS

V-Tac / Accelerator Drill with MARS Mobile

V-Tac / Accelerator Drill with MARS Mobile

What is a V-Tac or Accelerator Drill? A V-Tac drill, also sometimes called an Accelerator Drill, is an incredibly powerful drill for testing your ability to transition between targets while combining your ability to put lots of rounds down range. Simply put, it consists in its most basic form of performing multiple target transitions while testing your ability to control and run the firearm. The drill gets its name because of the increasing rhythm of the drill. You’ll increasingly put 1 more round into each target as you move between targets, effectively “accelerating” your rate of fire (also why this

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February 24, 2024 in Drills Mars Mobile Project MARS

2-2-2 Drill with MARS Mobile

2-2-2 Drill with MARS Mobile

What is a 2-2-2 Drill? A 2-2-2 drill is an incredibly powerful drill for testing your ability to transition between targets. Simply put, it consists in it’s most basic form of putting 6 rounds into three targets, 2 rounds each, as quickly as you can with acceptable accuracy. How to Perform a 2-2-2 Drill? Performing a 2-2-2 Drill using Dryfire with Project MARS Project MARS supports running 2-2-2 drills at home. MARS Mobile is best used with standard “metric” USPSA targets or “classic” IPSC targets. Ideally, you’ll have a laser dry fire setup that will allow you to fire semi

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