See how you do on this test ???

[Horicon Marsh Hunter]

12/20 no calculator

 

[Radman]

Marksmanship Evaluation — Armchair Sniper

www.armchairsniper.com

Got 11.

 

[TxHeartShot]

Marksmanship Evaluation — Armchair Sniper

www.armchairsniper.com

This easily the dumbest click-bait I've seen on LRH. I looked at the first 3 questions and though WTH does this have to do with anything. The only tests that matter are on the firing line and on the side of a mountain in the field

 

[quigley257]

I got 12 right. I look at it in the same manner I remember my teachers in the 80s. The ones who said "you need to know how to do this because you won't always have a calculator in your pocket". Little did they know. I can do most of the calculations in my head and have mils memorized well enough to scrape by. However, I nearly always have a rangefinder, Kestrel, and a DOPE sheet with me if I'm doing any kind of long range shooting. I definitely respect the ones who can accurately mil the target, cipher a solution and make a good shot without any other equipment. We have it awfully easy nowadays.

 

[Farmerbrown32]

Got 7 wrong. Never used mils

 

[KsKevin]

15 / 20. Terminology & wind stuff got me.

 

[bigred1]

Im half right. Uncle Sam taught us yards and MOA. Guess I'm showing my age now.

 

[Citified]

12 right but I'm old and was trained in MOA.
Don't own a mil scope but maybe someday I will take the plunge.

 

[30378wbymag]

Just one question:

Who remembers Whiz Wheels???

 

[Citified]

Yep

 

[1mechanic]

I got 13 right guess I'm just unlucky.

 

[frostop]

Ok, I get a more accurate number when I use 1 mil = 3.6 moa instead of 3.5

Long Range Shooting - MOA and MILS explained

A MIL or an MOA linear equivalent increases proportionally with distance. With the MOA and MIL systems, you correct the position of the reticle inside the scope, based on wind deflection and trajectory of the bullet at the target’s distance.

www.longrangeshooting.org

 

[Kerryt38]

So what does the math look like for Number 8 and 9??

There's several ways to do it but here's how I did it. One mil is one yard at 1000 yards or 36" and 39.5" is approximately 1.1 MIL. Divided by the 1.35 MIL= 814 yards divided by 1.09 yards in a meter gives you the meters. There's more precise math that I've long forgotten.

 

[frostop]

I'm an MOA guy but think it's helpful to know how this is done.
Very cool exercise