Two ranges. One match. Live.

For as long as the sport has existed, distance has been the one opponent no athlete could out-shoot. Two teams too far apart to meet shot their match on separate days, mailed in the results, and waited for someone to add them up. Allan Brown thought we could do better than waiting.

A challenge from Allan Brown

Allan Brown built freETarget — the electronic scoring target that put precision shot detection within reach of clubs, schools, and home ranges that could never justify the cost of a commercial system. He has spent years thinking about what an Electronic Scoring Target (EST) should make possible, not just what it should measure. So when he brought us a challenge, we cleared the bench and listened.

The challenge was simple to say and hard to build: take two ranges in two different places and let them shoot the same match, at the same time, as if they shared one firing line. Not results combined after the fact. Live — every shot, both ends, as it happens.

This is not a postal match

It is worth being precise here, because the sport already has a word for shooting across distance, and this is not it.

In a postal match, each squad fires on its home range on its own schedule, then submits its scores to be combined later. Postal matches solve distance. They do not solve presence. No one watches the other range. No one knows where they stand until the envelopes are opened.

What Allan asked for was the opposite of waiting. Same match. Same moment. Both ranges live — the tension of a shoulder-to-shoulder final, with the two shoulders hundreds of miles apart.

What we built: multi-venue live synced matches

A single match can now span more than one venue, and each venue is a real range in a real place, run by the people who run that range. Every shot fired at either site lands in the same match in real time. Scores climb live for both sides at once. And the targets themselves travel: coaches, officials, and spectators watch each shot break on either range, live, wherever they are.

Two ranges, one firing line — and no one waiting until the end to find out where they stand.

Built to hold the line, even when the network doesn’t

We built this around a single rule: a problem at one range can never stall the other.

Each venue operates autonomously on its own Nexus host, running its own relays, its own timers, and its own commands. Scores aggregate centrally and mirror to every other site; the live view is best-effort and catches up the moment a connection returns. A dropped signal in one gym slows nothing in the other. Correctness never depends on the network being perfect — only on each range doing its job, which it does whether it is online or not.

On the equipment your range already runs

Here is the part that turns a clever idea into something a program can use on a Tuesday night: it does not care what hardware you shoot on.

At launch, a venue can run freETarget, MegaLink, or SIUS Lanes — and the two venues in a match do not have to match. A freETarget range can host one half of a dual while a SIUS range hosts the other, and the scores meet in the middle as one result. Three systems that were never built to speak to each other, now sharing a firing line.

Why it matters

Picture a college dual where neither team boards a bus — one team shoots in Alabama, the other in West Virginia, and the match is decided shot for shot in real time. Picture a club in North Carolina taking on a club in Munich, both scores verified live through their own targets. Picture a junior who rarely travels beyond her home range finally getting to feel what it is to go shot-for-shot against someone she has never met.

The distance was never the point. The match was. We just stopped letting one get in the way of the other.

With thanks to Allan Brown

This one exists because Allan Brown asked for it, and because he was right that it could be done. Multi-venue live synced matches arrive alongside Nexus — ready for any two ranges, on freETarget, MegaLink, or SIUS Lanes, that want to share a firing line.

To Allan: challenge accepted.

Multi-venue live synced matches launch with Nexus on freETarget, MegaLink, and SIUS Lanes.

Steady Hands. Focused Minds. Never Miss.