Guides

Honest writing about tracking what you shoot — by a shooter who got tired of a notebook he couldn't search.

• What I do — and don't do — with your firearms data

  It's nobody's business what you have. Agreed. Here's exactly what that means in practice.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 3 min read

• How to track rounds fired (without a spreadsheet or app you don't trust)

  The fastest way to actually know how many rounds you've fired through each firearm — without giving the answer to a third party.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 5 min read

• Tracking round count per barrel: what spreadsheets miss

  If you've never swapped a barrel, you don't have this problem. If you have, you know — the firearm and the barrel each have a count, and they diverge from the moment of the first swap. Here's why per-barrel matters and what a system that handles it correctly looks like.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 6 min read

• The simplest way to start tracking your range sessions

  If you've been telling yourself you should start tracking, here's the smallest first step that actually pays off — two minutes today, and a year from now you can answer questions you can't answer right now.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 5 min read

• Should you put your firearms list in an app? A skeptic's checklist

  Honest answer: maybe. Probably not most of them. Here are ten questions to ask any firearms tracking app — including this one — before you trust it with your data.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 5 min read

• Shooting log spreadsheet templates: what works, what breaks

  Most shooters who track digitally end up in a spreadsheet. Here's an honest look at what they do well and where they quietly fall apart.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 6 min read

• Round count, last-shot date, and the questions only a log can answer

  A list of questions a methodical shooter would like to answer about their firearms and range time. Most shooters can answer two or three. The rest are guesses — and the reason isn't memory.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 5 min read

• Paper notebook vs digital shooting log: an honest comparison

  I kept a notebook in my range bag for years before I built Shooting Log Pro. The honest comparison goes both directions — and for many shooters, the right answer is to keep both.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 4 min read

• Multi-barrel firearms: how to actually start tracking each barrel

  If you swap barrels and want to start tracking per-barrel — but haven't been — here's the practical setup. List your barrels, capture starting counts, log the barrel at every session. The system does the rest.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 5 min read

• Your "private" shooting spreadsheet probably isn't private. Here's why.

  If your shooting spreadsheet is on a Mac with iCloud on, or Windows with OneDrive on, or in Google Sheets, the file is on a third-party server right now. Here's how to check, and what to do about it.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 7 min read

• Why I went from a range notebook to a private digital log

  I kept a paper notebook for years because I didn't trust apps with my firearms list. Then one day I tried to find a session from the previous spring, and couldn't.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 6 min read

• Tracking firearms for insurance and estate purposes

  Two events surface the question of whether your firearms are documented anywhere — a claim and a death. Here's what an inventory typically needs for each, what it should contain, and where to keep it without creating a different kind of problem.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 7, 2026 · 7 min read