# ScopeDOPE™ Lot Data Integration
## Turning Manufacturer Data Into Your Data

**Cold Bore Ballistics™ LLC**
**Concept Brief — Confidential**

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## The Problem Every Competition Shooter Has

Every ballistic calculator on the market — from the $600 Kestrel 5700 Elite to every app in the App Store — solves for trajectory using a ballistic coefficient pulled from a published spec sheet.

That spec sheet number is an average. It represents how that bullet performed across many lots, many barrels, many conditions. It does not represent how *your* lot performs in *your* barrel on *this* day.

For the casual shooter, the difference is academic. For an NRL22 competitor shooting at steel from 25 to 200 yards — where a tenth of a MRAD is a miss — it is the difference between a hit and a close call.

The shooter knows this. It is why serious rimfire competitors buy a case of a single lot number and refuse to switch until it runs out. It is why they chronograph their ammo out of their own barrel rather than trusting the box. It is why the most common question on rimfire forums is some variation of: *"what BC is everyone using for this lot?"*

The data exists to answer that question precisely. No one has made it easy to use. Until now.

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## The Data Nobody Is Using

ELEY — the world's oldest and most decorated manufacturer of precision rimfire ammunition, producing ammunition since 1828 — tests every lot of their premium ammunition before it ships. For every lot of Tenex, Match, and Team ammunition, ELEY records:

- **Mean muzzle velocity** across four test barrels
- **Ballistic coefficient** for that specific lot
- **Group size** at 50 meters from four different barrel types
- **Shot distribution data** from 200-round test groups
- **Lot quantity** remaining available for purchase

This data lives in the ELEY Lot Analyser at eleyxshot.com. A shooter can enter the lot number from the end of their ammo box and retrieve the actual performance data for their specific ammunition — not a generic spec sheet, their actual lot.

ELEY is the only ammunition manufacturer in the world offering this service.

No ballistic calculator has integrated with it.

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## What ScopeDOPE Does Differently

ScopeDOPE is not a ballistic calculator. It is a Ballistic Computer.

The distinction is architectural. Every other app starts with a ballistic coefficient from a spec sheet and builds a theoretical trajectory from it. When reality disagrees with the theory — and it always does, eventually — the shooter adjusts manually and hopes.

ScopeDOPE inverts this. Confirmed downrange impacts are the foundation. Physics fills the gaps between them. The result is a firing solution that reflects what the bullet actually does, not what the manufacturer says it should do.

The ELEY Lot Analyser provides the best possible starting point for this process. Instead of entering a generic BC from a spec sheet, a ScopeDOPE user enters their lot number and receives the actual BC and velocity measured by ELEY from that specific production run. ScopeDOPE's DOPE-Blend™ field-correction then refines that starting point with confirmed impacts downrange.

**The workflow:**
1. User opens a new box of ELEY Match, Tenex, or Team ammo
2. Enters or scans the lot code from the end panel
3. ScopeDOPE retrieves the lot-specific BC and mean velocity from ELEY's database
4. These values auto-populate the ammo entry — no spec sheet lookup, no guessing
5. As the shooter confirms impacts downrange, DOPE-Blend refines the solution further

The result: a firing solution that starts with real lot data and improves with every shot fired. No other app in the market offers this.

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## Why This Matters for NRL22

NRL22 is a .22LR precision rifle discipline. Every competitor shoots rimfire. At the distances NRL22 uses — 25 to 200 yards — the difference between a generic BC estimate and a lot-specific BC is measurable in fractions of an MRAD. At a 200-yard steel target, fractions of an MRAD are the margin between a clean hit and a miss.

The most common premium rimfire ammo choices at NRL22 matches:
- **ELEY Match** — one of the top choices at every level of NRL22 competition
- **ELEY Tenex** — preferred by many serious Open Division competitors
- **ELEY Team** — popular at the mid-tier price point

All of these are covered by the Lot Analyser. For an NRL22 shooter running ELEY ammo, ScopeDOPE + ELEY is the first system that gives them their lot's actual ballistic data rather than a published average — and then refines it further with confirmed impacts.

**For the NRL22 community, the pitch is simple:**
> "ScopeDOPE + ELEY Match: your lot's actual BC. Not a guess. Not a spec sheet. The number ELEY measured from your ammunition before it shipped."

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## The Competitive Advantage

Applied Ballistics maintains the Litz BC library — the gold standard for measured ballistic coefficients. These are averaged across many test conditions and represent the best available generic BC for a given bullet. They are not lot-specific.

Kestrel's ballistic calculator uses these same averaged BCs.

Strelok Pro, Hornady 4DOF, GeoBallistics — all of them use averaged BCs, either from published specs or from libraries like Applied Ballistics.

No competing product can offer what ScopeDOPE + ELEY delivers: **lot-specific BC and velocity data for the exact ammunition in the user's rifle, further refined by real-world impact confirmation.**

This is not a marginal improvement. It is a structural advantage that cannot be replicated by any app that relies on spec sheet data alone. It compounds with every box of ELEY ammo a ScopeDOPE user opens.

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## The ELEY Partnership

ELEY has already built and proven the market for lot-specific data. They launched the Lot Analyser, found it overwhelming to manage, discontinued it, rebuilt it as a proper platform, and relaunched it in late 2025. The infrastructure exists. The data exists. The demand is proven.

ScopeDOPE offers ELEY something their Lot Analyser website cannot: an active integration into the workflow of competition shooters at the moment they need the data most — when they open a new box and load their first magazine.

**What ELEY gets from the partnership:**
- Every ScopeDOPE user who shoots ELEY ammo engages with ELEY's data through the app, reinforcing brand loyalty at the point of use
- ScopeDOPE becomes a distribution channel for ELEY's differentiated data product in the North American NRL22 market
- Co-marketing opportunities: "ELEY + ScopeDOPE — the complete rimfire precision system"
- Real-world performance data flows back into the ecosystem as ScopeDOPE users confirm impacts, validating ELEY's testing against actual field conditions

**What Cold Bore Ballistics needs from ELEY:**
- API access or a data sharing agreement allowing ScopeDOPE to query the Lot Analyser by lot number
- Permission to display ELEY branding within the ammo entry interface when ELEY lot data is loaded
- Joint marketing acknowledgment of the integration

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## The Bigger Picture

ELEY is the first step in a larger data strategy.

SK Ammunition publishes product-level BC data. A partnership to develop lot-specific data for SK — modeled on the ELEY Lot Analyser and integrated directly into ScopeDOPE — would be a product launch story for SK in the US market.

Lapua tests every production lot internally. Their testing determines which lots become Super Long Range and which become Long Range packaging. That data exists. Making it available to ScopeDOPE users is a conversation that requires leverage — which comes from a demonstrated install base and a proven ELEY integration as a reference.

Federal Premium, Hornady Match, and other centerfire manufacturers are a longer conversation requiring them to build new testing and publication infrastructure. Worth pursuing as the install base grows.

The arc of this strategy: ScopeDOPE becomes the app that manufacturers want to be integrated with, because being in ScopeDOPE means their data reaches the most data-focused competition shooters in North America at the moment of maximum relevance.

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## Summary

| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| **The feature** | Auto-populate lot-specific BC and MV from ELEY's Lot Analyser when user enters their lot code |
| **The data source** | ELEY's existing eleyxshot.com Lot Analyser database |
| **What makes it unique** | No competing app has integrated with ELEY's lot data — or any manufacturer's lot data |
| **Primary audience** | NRL22 and precision rimfire competitors shooting ELEY ammunition |
| **ELEY's gain** | Distribution, brand reinforcement, real-world validation data |
| **ScopeDOPE's gain** | Proprietary data capability no competitor can replicate without a manufacturer partnership |
| **Required from ELEY** | API access or data sharing agreement |
| **Development complexity** | Low — API integration against an existing database |
| **Timeline** | Contact ELEY before launch; integration feasible in V1.1 or V2 |
| **Expansion path** | SK → Lapua → Federal/Hornady as install base grows |

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## Document Control

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| **Document owner** | `jschwefel@coldboreballisticsllc.com` |
| **Classification** | Confidential (03_-_Confidential/) |
| **Location** | `OneDrive/ScopeDOPE/03_-_Confidential/Product_Strategy/SCOPEDOPE_AMMO_DATA_PARTNERSHIP.md` |
| **Cross-references** | `SCOPEDOPE_VALUATION_BRIEF.md`; `SCOPEDOPE_STRATEGIC_OPPORTUNITIES.md` |
| **Created** | 2026-06-01 |
| **Last updated** | 2026-06-09 |
| **Next full review due** | 2027-06-01 |

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## Revision Control Block

| Rev | Date | Changed By | Reviewed By | Approved By | Summary |
|-----|------|------------|-------------|-------------|---------|
| 0.9 | 2026-06-01 | jschwefel | — | — | Initial release |
| DRAFT | 2026-06-09 | Claude (Opus 4.8) | — | — | Fixed "DOPE-blend"→"DOPE-Blend™" and removed banned "DOPE-blend engine" naming → "DOPE-Blend field-correction" per BRAND_LEGAL_LANGUAGE_GUIDE; applied ™ to first use of ScopeDOPE/Cold Bore Ballistics. |
