10米、50米小口径射击训练激光测试仪

　　10米、50米小口径射击训练激光测试仪

　　Review: SCATT MX-02 Electronic Trainer

　　by Tony Chow

　　Introduction

　　In recent years, the use of electronic trainers has revolutionized training in all disciplines of position shooting. By capturing valuable metrics like the steadiness of a shooter’s hold, accuracy of aiming, and the timeliness of trigger release, these devices can offer tremendous insight into the strengths and weakness of a shooter’s position and technique, making marksmanship training less of an “oral tradition” and more of a science. Popular trainers0n the market include RIKA, Noptel, and the most ubiquitous of all, the SCATT Training System.

　　All existing electronic trainers0n the market operate0n the same basic principle: a sensor attached to the rifle monitors the position of an infrared light source close to the target; the position of the light source within the sensor’s field of view determines the rifle’s point of aim at any given instant. These products’ common reliance0n infrared results in a common weakness: the inability to use them in outdoor ranges for live fire training, as sunlight is full of infrared radiation that overwhelms the sensor.

　　Now, a new product has entered the market. SCATT’s next-generation MX-02 electronic trainer promises to perform just as well as the company’s older WS-01 infrared-based trainer in dry fire, but with the new ability to be used in live fire under broad daylight, with both smallbore and centerfire calibers. As a committed smallbore prone shooter who has long desired such a product, when I was offered a unit to review, I jumped0n the opportunity. Does SCATT MX-02 live up to its lofty promises? That’s the question this review seeks to answer.

　　What’s in the Package

　　SCATT’s previous-generation product, the WS-01, comes packaged in a large flat box. By contrast, the new SCATT MX-02 is packaged in a sleek 9”x7” nylon pouch, designed for portability. Inside it, we find a comfortably long 9-foot USB cable for the sensor, two hex wrenches, a basic instruction manual, and a padded plastic box that contains the sensor, the mounting bracket, as well as a USB thumb drive with the SCATT software0n it.

　　The contents of the SCATT MX-02 package

　　The MX-02 package is reduced in size due to the absence of a powered target frame. Unlike the electronic trainers that came before, the MX-02’s sensor operates in the visible spectrum, which eliminates the need for an infrared light source at the target end. Essentially, the sensor is a high resolution, high-speed camera, capable of recognizing the target’s dark bullseye within its white background, and assessing the rifle’s point of aim based0n the bullseye’s position within its field of view.

　　SCATT MX-02 Sensor (left) alongside the SCATT WS-01 Sensor (right)

　　Despite its sophistication, the MX-02 sensor is impressively compact. It is0nly slightly bulkier than the WS1 unit, and not much heavier; with the sensor attached, the shooter is unlikely to notice any change in the rifle’s balance. There is a lever0n the sensor itself, which the user needs to adjust to focus the sensor0n the target, depending0n the distance between the two. The adjustment range is from 2.5 meters to infinity. A setscrew locks the focal distance in place.