Manual
Setup guides for Wrist Dope, one feature at a time. Every guide has a switch at the top for Apple Watch and iPhone or Android and Wear OS, and it remembers your pick. If you're stuck on something that isn't covered yet, email support@wristdope.com and we'll walk you through it.
Dope
The screen you shoot from: the live solution and the card behind it.
Range Card and Dope Card
Trim the range card to the distances you shoot, read the transonic shading, flip the holds to inches, and print a self-documenting dope card for the armboard.
Hit Percentage and Terminal Rating
Every target preset and what its size means, how group size, velocity SD and your wind call build the hit percentage, and what Ideal, Adequate, Marginal and Insufficient mean before a shot on an animal.
Field
Where the target and the wind get called.
Target and Wind
Point and lock the target, call the wind, and read the shooter's clock. Why LOCK is the commit, what the confidence chip does, and why the weather line never touches your holds.
Wind Meters
Pair a Kestrel or a WeatherFlow Tempest to the phone or straight to the watch, capture its wind into your call, lock it, and pin its air to the Environment page.
Calypso Wind Meters
The ultrasonic Calypso Mini and All In One: how the meter's mark sets the line of fire, why Pro is the key, and what the line under a silent meter means.
Guns
Your rifles, your loads, and getting the numbers right.
Guns and Loads
Every field in the rifle and load editor (sight height, zero range, twist rate, barrel length, BC, muzzle velocity, group size), what each one changes in your solution and where to find the number.
Field Trueing
Correct the solver to your rifle: verify the zero, measure velocity with a chronograph or a group on target, then true BC at distance.
Scan Ammo
Scan the barcode on a box of factory ammunition and the load builds itself: bullet weight, ballistic coefficient and muzzle velocity, from a catalog bundled in the app.
Airgun Setup
Pick one of the eleven airgun calibers and the app seeds a 30 m zero, a real pellet and a small-quarry target. Then trim the dope card to airgun distances and read the terminal rating.
Env/Set
Conditions, units, and every switch in the app.
Environment and Units
Where pressure, temperature, altitude and humidity come from, how AUTO and MANUAL differ, what the orange warning triangle means, and how to set imperial or metric units.
Settings
Every switch and picker in the app: units and per-measurement overrides, Live Fire and range-card steps, the advanced physics corrections, widget columns and mount rotation, plus which settings follow you between phone and watch.
Voice Control
Ask for a hold without taking your head off the scope: every Siri phrase for iPhone and Apple Watch, what Siri says back, and how the in-app voice mode works on Android.
Level
The anti-cant level, free on both devices, and what it does for a rifle-mounted screen.
Scope Level
Zero the anti-cant level on watch or phone, put the cant glow behind your firing solution, pick the Glow, Ring, Bars or Footer style, and switch on rifle-mounted mode so the shot angle comes from the bore instead of device tilt.
Live Aim on the Rifle
With the watch or phone on the rifle, the target direction and shot angle follow the bore while nothing is locked, cant is corrected live, and the LIVE and CANT tags tell you which numbers are moving.
Match
Stages, targets, the live Stage Card, and the clock.
Match Mode
Build a match as stages and targets, arm it, and read live-solved elevation and wind holds off the Stage Card, then share the whole match with your squad.
Stage Timer
Arm a par time on the stage card, start it with one press or on the range officer's beep, read the ring, and run the same clock on the phone as a linked timer or in RO mode.
Hunter Stages
NRL Hunter blind stages: start a hunter stage, dial each range as you find it, log the target with the live hold while the clock runs, then save the run as a match.
Pro
The one-time upgrade, the trial, and your purchase.
Your watch
Hardware, the watch face, and the settings around the app, on Apple Watch and Wear OS.
Supported Watches
Which Apple Watch and Wear OS models run Wrist Dope, and what the barometer, the compass and the always-on display change on each one.
Watch Face Complications
Put a mini range card, your elevation and wind holds, the target, density altitude or the active load on the watch face. Which slot each one fits, how to add it, and when it refreshes. Tiles and the phone widget on Android.
Watch Settings for the Rifle
The watch settings that keep your dope on the glass between shots: wrist raise, wake duration, always on, motion access, and the passcode trade, each with what it costs you.
Screen Orientation
Rotate the watch app to match a rail mount without moving the mount, and put the phone's landscape menu on the edge your hand can reach.