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Dang, I'm getting an education here. Had no idea there were so many types of reticles.BDC reticles
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Dang, I'm getting an education here. Had no idea there were so many types of reticles.BDC reticles
this is like asking which is better...metric or imperial (we use imperial in the USA...ie: inches, feet, pounds, ounces, etc.. metric is millimeter, centimeter, meter, milligram, gram, kilogram, etc.)
They both work. Pick which one is easier for you.
What makes all the difference is getting to know your rifle, and trigger time.
My brain works better in MOA. I just bought a Leupold scope with a Horus type reticle that has 60MOA hold-overs (that's 5' for those of you in Vancouver, WA) not counting the 80MOA travel on the turrets.
I'm going to shoot NYC from the top of an oak tree in my yard.... LOL!
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A lot of this is personal preference. I know guys who swear by MOA and others that swear by the other one.
I actually have both so it doesn't really matter to me its just training your brain. I would suggest getting one and sticking with it. Another words don't be like me get one and learn to use it well.
Pretty much.
I cant get the deer to stand there long enough to get my calculator out, so I just go with plain cross hairsAs a hunter, (not a sniper or competition target shooter) I don't fiddle with the knobs once the hairs are set @ 200 yards.
Mine have graduations who's numerical values I have long forgotten.
From there, all the rifles which I hunt with can hit anything within 8 " of the cross hair, (some much less) @ 300 yards. (my self imposed maximum without serious support) (Plus 2 at 100, and minus 8 @ 300 (aprox)
Knowing that, and reasonable at estimating distance, I can easily tweak my long shots some . I've yet to be disappointed.
When I see hair in the sights, performing math calculations and fiddling with graduations or knobs is the last thing I want to think about, likely they'd walk off while I was still fiddling.
But that's just me, I know others who get a kick out of such things.
Kinda hard to do that when its not mounted to a rifle!!!
That's easy, metric is better. Moving the little decimal point is lot easier than learning and using 1/2", 1/4", 1/8" 1/16", 1/32", 1/64", 1/128" and inches, feet, yards, mile.The sooner this country accepts that and switches the sooner our kids can compete in mathematics.
"Mil" has nothing to do with "military." It is an abbreviation for milliradian, 1/6400 of a degree in angular measure. That's 3.6 inches at 100 yards, or 3 feet at l,000 yards.
Mil/Mil for me.
Neither did calculators. But we have them now. Do you remember how to use the slide rule?The metric system never put men on the moon, or built the SR71 Blckbird...
Neither did calculators. But we have them now. Do you remember how to use the slide rule?