RecoilShot counter for Garmin watches
Every round. Counted from your wrist.
Recoil counts your shots from the recoil, scores how steady you held before each one, times your splits and strings, and keeps the round count, ammo and cost of every gun.
The session screen, live. Tap the watch to fire a round.
How it counts
Shoot. The watch keeps count.
Every shot jolts your wrist. Recoil reads that jolt from the watch's accelerometer at the highest rate the watch gives and counts it, so your hands stay on the gun.
- Wear it on your shooting hand
Pick the gun and start a session. The ring around the edge fills with each round in the magazine.
- Shoot
Count, split between the last two shots and the magazine on one screen. BACK starts a new magazine; UP and DOWN fix a missed or extra shot.
- Confirm the count
Before saving, enter the rounds you really fired. Recoil shows how many it detected, so you see how well it counts with your gun.
Stability
How still was your hold?
From the gyroscope, Recoil scores how still your wrist was in the second before every shot, 0 to 100, right under the count.
- Average and best stability for every session
- Heart rate at every shot: see how fast you settle after moving
- Needs a watch with a gyroscope; without one Recoil counts and times just the same
Shot timer & drills
Random beep. Beat the par.
Press START and the watch beeps and vibrates after a random 2 to 4 seconds, strong enough to feel through ear protection. First shot, total time and rounds for every string; a drill ends at its last round and turns green when you made the par.
Bill Drill
Six rounds as fast as you can keep them on target.
El Presidente
Turn, draw, three targets, reload, again.
Mozambique
Two to the body, one to the head.
1-Reload-1
One shot, slide-lock reload, one shot.
F.A.S.T.
Two to the head, reload, four to the body.
Dot Torture
50 rounds of precision, counted for you, no clock.
Your guns
Round count, ammo and cost.
Pistol, rifle, shotgun and rimfire, each with its own numbers and its own detection sensitivity.
Every saved session adds to the gun's total.
Rounds since the last cleaning, a reminder every 100 to 2000 rounds.
Add a box; each session comes off and Recoil warns when you run low.
Set the price per round and see what every session cost.
Sensor test
Tune it at the range.
Every gun, wrist and grip kicks differently. The sensor test shows the strength of each recoil against the threshold, without recording anything.
- Shots light up yellow, reloads and racking the slide stay gray
- UP and DOWN change the sensitivity, 1 to 9, saved per gun
- Sample rate and live stability on the same screen
Trend
Are you getting faster?
History → Trend shows the last 10 sessions of each gun on four pages: average split, stability, best first shot and best split.
- The newest value big, with its change against your earlier average
- Green when you got better, red when you slipped
- A line through the last 10 sessions, the newest point in brass
Garmin Connect
A Shooting activity, every session.
Sessions are saved to Garmin Connect as Shooting with heart rate; each magazine or string is a lap, and the numbers are in the activity summary.
One price
€5.99once
- Everything included
- No subscription, no account
- About 70 Garmin watches
- App in 9 languages
Bought in the Connect IQ Store with Garmin Pay.
FAQ
Questions
Which watches does it run on?
About 70 recent Garmin watches: Forerunner, fēnix, epix, Enduro, Venu, vívoactive, Instinct, quatix, tactix, D2 and more. Stability needs a gyroscope; on watches without one Recoil counts and times the same.
How accurate is the count?
It depends on the gun, your grip and which wrist wears the watch. That is why you confirm the real count before saving: Recoil shows detected against real for every session, and the sensitivity can be tuned per gun in the sensor test.
Does it work with rifles and shotguns?
Yes, each has its own profile and sensitivity. With long guns the recoil goes mostly into the shoulder, so the trigger hand moves less; tune the sensitivity in the sensor test.
Can I use it in competition?
Recoil is a training tool. Some rulebooks do not allow connected watches on the firing line; always follow the match rules, the range rules and your range officer.
Does it need my phone?
No. Everything runs on the watch; the activity syncs to Garmin Connect as usual.
What data does it collect?
None. Your sessions stay on the watch, and Garmin saves the activity to your own Garmin Connect account.
Which languages?
The watch app is in English, Slovak, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and Dutch, following the watch language.