[briant]

I have a nephew in the army now, he says that some of the ranges have electronic scoring.

I was wondering what you mean by your buddy scores for you. The only time I saw manual scoring was when zeroing ranges were used to qualify.

[sparkomatic]

I spent almost all of my time at Fort Bragg, NC through the 80's. The qualification ranges were set up so that two shooters go to a lane. I think the ranges had about 40 lanes or something like that. Anyhow, one guy does all the shooting and the scorer (the other guy) records the hits/misses with a pencil. Hence the .223/5.56mm pencil comment the other poster made on this thread. When that shooter has fired all 40 rounds then you switch and the other guy shoots while you score.