System and method for marksmanship training

A method for automatically evaluating a marksman in a shooting drill with a series of shots fired at a target held by a dynamic target stand comprising a motor, a computer controller, and a target holder, wherein the motor rotates the target holder and the target between a blade orientation and at least one of a front side orientation and a back side orientation, wherein each of the orientations is maintained for a period of time, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing a mobile computing device comprising a camera, a microphone, a memory, a processor, a touchscreen, and a wireless communication module, wherein the wireless communication module is in operative communication with the computer controller of the dynamic target holder;
• receiving in the wireless communication module of the mobile computing device an initial turn signal from the computer controller of the dynamic target stand, wherein the initial turn signal corresponds with a rotation of the target to the front side orientation from at least one of the back side orientation and the blade orientation;
• producing in the processor an initialization signal in response to receiving the initial turn signal;
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• automatically starting a shot clock in the processor according to the initialization signal.

A method for automatically evaluating a marksman in a shooting drill with a series of shots fired at a target held by a dynamic target stand comprising a motor, a computer controller, and a target holder, wherein the motor rotates the target holder and the target between a blade orientation and at least one of a front side orientation and a back side orientation, wherein each of the orientations is maintained for a period of time, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing a mobile computing device comprising a camera, a microphone, a memory, a processor, a touchscreen, and a wireless communication module, wherein the wireless communication module is in operative communication with the computer controller of the dynamic target holder;
• sending a first set of training instructions from the mobile computing device to the computer controller, wherein the first set of training instructions comprise a first set of turning orientations and a first set of time periods for the corresponding turning orientations;
• receiving in the wireless communication module of the mobile computing device a series of signals from the computer controller of the dynamic target stand, wherein each one of the signals corresponds with a rotation of the target between a front side orientation and a back side orientation according to the turning orientations;
• detecting with at least one of the camera and the microphone the series of the shots fired at the target and time periods with no shots fired between the series of shots, wherein the camera detects a laser burst impact on the target as each of the shots fired at the target, and wherein the microphone detects a gunpowder blast as each of the shots fired at the target;
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• determining with the processor a first set of times and a second set of times according to a shot clock in the processor, wherein the first set of times correspond to each one of the signals in the series of signals corresponding with the rotation of the target and automatically starting the shot clock, and wherein the second set of times correspond to the detection of the shots in the series of shots fired at the target respectively following the first set of times.