UKVARL Score

UKVARL Score is the league's own target-scoring tool, built into your membership. Photograph a shot card with your phone, and UKVARL Score lines the card up, finds the shots, gauges each one against the official ring sizes and gives you a scored card you can check, correct and keep.

It is used for two things: your own practice and progress, and league paper target competitions set by the league administrators.

• Take the photo in the app, or upload one you have already taken.
• Cards are automatically straightened, cropped and resampled to a consistent size so every card is measured the same way.
• Optional clarity enhancement (contrast, sharpening and an "Ink Boost" for faint print) helps on pale or poorly lit prints. It is off by default.
• Quality notes tell you when a photo is likely to reduce accuracy — blur, glare, heavy angle or a card that is not fully in frame — so you can retake it rather than fight the marking.
• Best results: flat card, even light, phone square over the middle of the card, no shadow across the print.

• One-tap automatic alignment finds the centre of each diagram, the ring sizes and any ovalling from photographing at an angle.
• Every official UKVARL card is preloaded with its true ring diameters, so scoring never depends on guesswork.
• Ring guides sit on the outer edge of the printed line, and the centre guide sits on the outside of the black mark — that is where official diameters are measured.
• "Fit to print" snaps the guides to the printed rings, for one diagram or the whole card.
• Fine tune by hand if you need to: nudge, size, stretch, tilt, and pan or pinch to zoom on mobile.
• Lock a diagram once it is right so it cannot be knocked out of place, and jump between diagrams with the zoom pills.

• Shots are found automatically, including in the dark centre of the card.
• Each shot is gauged the way a pellet gauge works, using the card's own line-touching rule: inward (the usual setting) reads the hole edge nearest the centre, so a hole breaking a line takes the higher ring, while outward reads the far edge, so the hole must sit wholly inside the line.
• Tap any line in the score table to highlight that shot on the card, and tap a shot to nudge, delete or re-place it.
• Undo and redo throughout, plus a retouch mode for very fine adjustments with a live score readout.
• Bell target cards score to a decimal, so a perfect centre reads 5.1 and your 5.1 count is tallied for you.
• Optional ISSF-style decimal scoring is available for paper targets.

• Scans save themselves once the marking settles, and later corrections update the same scan.
• Saved scans keeps a history of every card with its photo, marking and totals.
• Progress shows rolling 7, 30 and 90 day averages for score, group size and consistency, along with your personal bests.
• A composite heatmap plots every hole in the chosen period, marks your mean point of impact and suggests sight adjustments.
• Plain-English coaching pointers read your group's direction and shape and suggest what to look at — trigger, stance, hold or sights.
• An optional session log records pellet brand and head size, batch, rifle, position, indoor or outdoor, temperature and lighting — then compares how you shoot with each.
• Export a scored card or your progress as a PDF.

League administrators can run paper rifle and paper pistol competitions across all clubs:

• The administrator sets the card to be used, the number of targets and the number of rounds.
• They can also set how many rounds count, so the lowest scores are dropped — for example six rounds shot, best five counting.
• Shooters enter each round through UKVARL Score and submit it to the competition; submitted rounds are locked.
• Administrators review submissions, and can check and correct the marking on any card.
• 5.1s are a bell target concept, so they are not used in paper target competitions.

A flatbed scanner is more accurate than a phone: the card lies flat, the lighting is even, and the file records its own resolution — which is a true millimetre ruler.

• Scan at 300–600 dpi, in colour or greyscale, with auto-crop and auto-straighten turned off, and save as PNG or a high-quality JPEG straight from the scanner software.
• Put a matte black sheet behind the card so light cannot come back through the pellet holes.
• Upload the scan the same way as a photo. UKVARL Score reads the resolution from the file and treats it as a true-size scan; you can switch between Scan (true size) and Photo yourself if it reads it wrongly.
• Measure the print then reads the printed ring lines off the card in millimetres and reports how that batch compares with the card's official figures. Print runs from different printers can differ by around a percent, which shows at the line.
• A measured batch can be saved as a named print run, so everyone shooting that batch scores against the same figures. Official league card figures are still only changed by an administrator.
• Measuring from a photo works from the card's declared black aiming mark instead, so it can only tell you how the rest of the print compares with the black — not whether the whole card printed large or small. A scan can.

UKVARL Score is a scoring aid, not an official scorer. Everything it works out comes from a photograph of your card, so please read this before relying on a score:

• Scores are measured from an image, so photo quality, camera angle, lighting, shadow and a creased or scruffy card all affect the result.
• Automatic alignment and automatic shot detection can be wrong. They are a starting point, and you are expected to check and correct the marking on every card.
• Scoring uses the card's official millimetre figures. Where a shot is a hairline call, treat the app's decision as indicative and confirm it against the physical card.
• For league paper target competitions, the score you submit is your own declaration. It stays subject to review and correction by league administrators, whose decision on the marking is final.
• The league accepts no liability for a score, placing or disputed result that follows from marking a shooter did not check.

If you think a card has been marked wrongly, keep the physical card and raise it with your club or league administrator.

Sign in and open UKVARL Score from the member menu. Score entry and statistics are part of the yearly subscription — see membership & pricing for what is included, or the FAQs if something here is not clear.