Use your phone as a scope

This is an advanced force multiplier for the modern battlefield. This is just the bolt action rifle. A modern smartphone is essentially a supercomputer that fits in your pocket. It's a communication device, a navigation device, a multimedia device. And it actually has quite a decent capability of optical zoom. There are many ways how you can use your phone to improve your shooting. Mostly it's done through apps. For example, ballistic calculators, apps that imitate a shot timer. You even have apps that improve your shooting with the use of other devices. For example, the Mantis X. You have apps where you can take a picture of a target and calculate what kind of spread and accuracy you got. And many, many more. But there are also some less conventional uses. For example, I often use my phone instead of a spotting scope to see my hits. Now, last time on the range, we had an interesting debate. Can you use your mobile phone as a direct aiming sight? In this case, as a magnifier. I think it's possible. Let's try it out. Now, on this range, we are only limited to 25 meters. But this is a solid result and will scale to larger distances. So how did the zoom help me in this instance? Well, the red dot is relatively big compared to this dot here. And on 25 meters, I already have distortion in my eyesight. I don't have a perfect eyesight. So when I put the red dot on this dot, I'm not always perfectly centered. When shooting with the phone, we used, I think, 8x magnification, which was already enough to have that sharper dot that I could center properly here on the target. You can see that the grouping shrank down. It works. Now, as you saw, this was not perfect or easy to do because you had to position the phone behind your red dot and kind of keep it that steady. But I bet someone could easily 3D print a mount for this kind of use. And essentially, this was a really good proof of concept. It does work.