shoot4fun
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The Mildot reticle is, apparently, "out-dated" due to all the hash-style reticles popularity these days. It is, no less, a very useful reticle, especially for ranging on a target of unknown distance. I believe I still have one of the Mildot Master tools around here somewhere but I have gone to the hash v. dot in my scopes.Thanks in advance for looking.
I've been an MOA guy for the several decades I've been shooting. Until now, anyway. I just bought my first FFP scope, with Mil knobs and a Mildot reticle. FFP. MILs and the Mildot are all new to me, and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed.
This reticle is a lot more complex than I realized. I have a basic understanding of MILs, in that the math to convert them to MOA is not difficult. However, I want to take the conversion process out of my head, and learn to "think in MILs", if that makes any sense.
The FFP concept, of anways being in proportion, makes a lot of sense to me. I do have to admit that I find the reticle just turns into crosshairs at much less than max magnification, though.
I'm sure I'm not the first guy who's been through this. Can anyone recommend any videos, links to read, or post feedback here that you think might help an old fart MOA guy learn a new system the right way?
The math was pretty easy for me as well so the actual switch over was not a big deal. I thought I had everything down before I went to a match with milrad based scopes. Then someone started calling corrections out in MOA. Uh oh. Now I gotta figure that out in my head on the fly.
Another issue I encountered was, as my MRAD scope numbers grew, converting old MOA data to the new mrad numbers. Then I found this somewhere:
MOA x .2909 = Mils
Mils x 3.438 = MOA
So now I can pretty easily take MOA data and apply it to my Mil scope. 10 MOA x .2909 = 2.9 Mil and that is a lot less "spinning the wheel" to get on a distant target. It also doesn't hurt that I was able to convert all my closest shooting buddies to the Mil system too.
