01RANGE SESSION
Record what happened at the range
Measure a group, keep it tied to the rifle and ammunition, and build the rifle’s record over time.
Explore Range Sessions
Quantify the Process → Trust the Shot
Qual8 keeps rifle, target, ammunition, accuracy, and velocity data together, guides load development, and qualifies the load, rifle-ammunition system, and shooter.
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Three ways to shoot a target
Use calibrated paper, your own target, or steel
Choose the target you actually shot. The record shows which target you used and how the group was measured.
Use Qual8 with any target you already have → paper or steel
Sigma8 calibrated target
the precision instrument
Print it, shoot it, and Qual8 does the rest.
The Sigma8 Calibrated Targets use printed ChArUco patterns that let computer vision square your photo from any angle and accurately map every bullet hole for you. The patterns calibrate the size of each pixel in the image, so every measurement is true to scale.
If you want the highest precision, shoot Sigma8 targets. Download them for free and print at home on heavy 60lb paper for clean bullet holes.
Download Sigma8 targets free
Your own target
your range, your paper
Shoot the targets you already print and love.
If you just love shooting your own favorite target or maybe you forgot to print out your favorite Sigma8 Calibrated targets, Qual8 was designed to work with any target you brought to the range.
Dot drills, club sheets, zero grids — tap two marks a known distance apart. Qual8 uses them to calibrate the size of each pixel in the image, then you mark each bullet hole by hand.
AR500 Steel
ring it and measure it
The plates already hanging at your range count too.
Round, Square, Rectangular, Silhouette, or any custom shape
The same two-mark method you’d use for your own targets, with every impact mapped by hand — don’t forget a fresh can of white spray paint so you can find your bullet impacts easier.
A Sigma8 target is the most accurate way to measure a group in Qual8, because it is the only one that brings its own scale and its own geometry. The other two are exactly as accurate as the reference you measured and the marks you tapped.
Four jobs · four dedicated tools
Choose what you want to do
0102FACTORY AMMO
Compare boxes in the rifle you shoot
Keep accepted target results and velocity evidence attached to each product so the comparison shows what the rifle actually supported.
Compare Factory Ammo
03RELOADING WORKFLOW
Develop a handload one cycle at a time
Keep the load, components, target result, accuracy, and velocity together through every deliberate iteration.
Follow the Reloading Workflow
04QUALIFIERS
Prove the system, then prove the shooter
Move from rifle-and-ammunition evidence at the bench to the qualification work the shooter executes with that system.
Explore QualifiersLoad development
Keep every cycle connected
Record the load, target, group, and velocity together. Qual8 preserves the evidence across charge, seating-depth, and later confirmation work so the next step comes from the record rather than memory.
See the Reloading WorkflowQual8 Test Lab
What do you want to test?
Start with a question about the rifle, the ammunition, or both, then use the dedicated protocol built to answer it.
- Muzzle Device ShiftAvailable
- Precision Baseline TestAvailable
- The Break-In StudyAvailable
- Ladder TestAvailable
Education and tools
Connect the app to the process
Sigma8 teaches the shooting-and-reloading process and develops the physical tools that collect clean measurements for Qual8.
Visit Sigma8 LabsOne target is enough to begin
START FREE / CHOOSE YOUR TIER
Run Proto-Qual without building a rifle profile first. When you want saved Range Sessions and rifle history, request a free Marksman account.
Choose Your Tier
Start free. Charter 500 pricing for the first 500 paid members.
Marksman
$0forever
- Free Range Sessions across every rifle
- Sigma8 paper, your own paper, and steel targets
- Saved history, velocity, Best Group, and barrel count
- Precision Baseline Test across every rifle
- Hunt Qualified across every rifle, free
Sharpshooter
$49.98per year
Charter 500: $24.99/yr
- Everything in Marksman
- Factory Ammo Comparison across every rifle
- Factory Ammo Comparison history
- Muzzle Device Shift across every rifle
- The Break-In Study across every rifle
- LQ100, LQ500, and MQ-600 across every rifle
Premium Handloader
$149.98per year
Charter 500: $74.99/yr
- Everything in Sharpshooter
- Reloading Workflow across every rifle
- Load Cards, recipes, and components
- 8-Track response surface across every rifle
- Patent-pending next iteration
- Unlimited active handload development
- Ladder Test across every rifle
- Barrel Life Accuracy Analysis
- Cross-load and cross-rifle analysis
Annual prices: Sharpshooter $49.98 and Premium Handloader $149.98. Marksman remains free.
Charter 500
The first 500 successfully paid annual members receive Charter pricing.
Charter applies only to paid annual tiers. Continuous paid status preserves it across paid-tier changes. A refund, cancellation ending paid status, or lapse retires the place permanently. GOVX does not combine with Charter 500.
Sharpshooter $24.99/yr / Premium Handloader $74.99/yr
Military and First Responder
10% off full-price Qual8 subscriptions.
Active duty military, veterans, law enforcement, firefighters, and EMS personnel, verified through GOVX ID.
The GOVX discount applies to full-price annual tiers only. It does not stack with any other offer, and it does not apply to Charter 500 pricing.
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