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MOA to MIL - did you switch?
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<blockquote data-quote="22Kreedmire" data-source="post: 1769679" data-attributes="member: 107363"><p>Switched to MIL a year ago and haven't looked back. For ME, It's easier. Also, you don't have to think in "metric" (Cm and meters) to use mil scope system. I still range in YARDS and think in INCHES. 1 Moa is 1.047". Lots of decimal places. 1 mil is 3.6". 1 decimal place. At 100 YARDS. So at 1000 yards 1 Moa is 10.47" or 1 mil 36". 500 yards now I have to divide in half 10.47" so 1 Moa is 5.235".. or 1 mil. 18". Way easier in mils. Now say .1 mil at 100 is .36". How big is .1 at 500. Easy. .36x5.= 1.8". Or the same as half a mil at 100 yards. Now moa .26175x5=1.308" per click at 500yards. . Kinda difficult in your head.. It just makes sense to me personally. and the other up side is it's faster than your "normal" 1/4moa scope as far as dialing. There is Way less turning of the dial to get the same out of it. It's pretty close to a 1/3moa scope (huskemaw, John burns leupold) for speed . Some people argue with me, well mil it's not as precise.. Ok TECHNICALLY yes . It's a bigger movement per click. but the same people arguing are also rounding the MOA to the nearest inch. wait a minute(pun intended). im not rounding with mils. and you are rounding with MOA so you are already inducing some "error". and not as concerned with being as DEAD ON your mark as you claim. 2.6175" per click at 1000 yards vs 3.6" per click in mil. So 1" difference. But in reality we aren't shooting "lasers" like in Star Wars so there will never be a time when 1" makes a difference between a kill and a miss even shooting prairie dogs. There are too many other variables that will affect your hit and miss percentage .. this is just my opinion ! One other thing, more people are going to mils so i may as well learn it anyway for easier communication, no matter who i am shooting with..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="22Kreedmire, post: 1769679, member: 107363"] Switched to MIL a year ago and haven’t looked back. For ME, It’s easier. Also, you don’t have to think in “metric” (Cm and meters) to use mil scope system. I still range in YARDS and think in INCHES. 1 Moa is 1.047”. Lots of decimal places. 1 mil is 3.6”. 1 decimal place. At 100 YARDS. So at 1000 yards 1 Moa is 10.47” or 1 mil 36”. 500 yards now I have to divide in half 10.47” so 1 Moa is 5.235”.. or 1 mil. 18”. Way easier in mils. Now say .1 mil at 100 is .36”. How big is .1 at 500. Easy. .36x5.= 1.8”. Or the same as half a mil at 100 yards. Now moa .26175x5=1.308” per click at 500yards. . Kinda difficult in your head.. It just makes sense to me personally. and the other up side is it’s faster than your “normal” 1/4moa scope as far as dialing. There is Way less turning of the dial to get the same out of it. It’s pretty close to a 1/3moa scope (huskemaw, John burns leupold) for speed . Some people argue with me, well mil it’s not as precise.. Ok TECHNICALLY yes . It’s a bigger movement per click. but the same people arguing are also rounding the MOA to the nearest inch. wait a minute(pun intended). im not rounding with mils. and you are rounding with MOA so you are already inducing some "error". and not as concerned with being as DEAD ON your mark as you claim. 2.6175” per click at 1000 yards vs 3.6” per click in mil. So 1” difference. But in reality we aren’t shooting “lasers” like in Star Wars so there will never be a time when 1” makes a difference between a kill and a miss even shooting prairie dogs. There are too many other variables that will affect your hit and miss percentage .. this is just my opinion ! One other thing, more people are going to mils so i may as well learn it anyway for easier communication, no matter who i am shooting with.. [/QUOTE]
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