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Need Help With MOA????

One of the great thing about hobbies is is that we get to decide how we want to do things. If mils make you happy do mils. If MOA makes you happy do that. One more thing, mils have noting to do with the system of measurement. They are neither an inch pounds, nor a metric thing. They are a ratio thing, one to one thousand.
 
One of the great thing about hobbies is is that we get to decide how we want to do things. If mils make you happy do mils. If MOA makes you happy do that. One more thing, mils have noting to do with the system of measurement. They are neither an inch pounds, nor a metric thing. They are a ratio thing, one to one thousand.

While I get your point, technically, radians are the official metric unit of angle.
 
While I get your point, technically, radians are the official metric unit of angle.
True, but as you probably understood we do not need to really understand what a radian is, or how to convert to degrees to use the milrad system for shooting. On the other hand we do need to understand the ratio aspect. What we are really doing is doing a form of stadia ranging. Of course conversion to inches at a specific distance is important as well. I wonder how many users of milrad scopes could define a radian.
 
Not me
i try to keep things as simple as possible let's say I wanted to move my shot impact 8 inches, at 600 yards ( 8 dividend by 6=1.3 Moa )
5 clicks on my scope
 
I worked in the metric system for 21 years. The dumbest guys on the planet use it. How? It's a decimal system and if you can count money, you can figure out metric. The trick is to wash out of your brain, all the archaic, backward, four barley corns to an inch system we've been saddled with by the British since colonial times.
 
A unit system is judged by its usefulness in a given situation.

I’m an engineer dude. When I’m doing that, meters/kilograms/seconds/amps makes sense.

But, with ranges that are already in yards, targets that are already in inches, and an MOA neatly working out to 1” per hundred yards...it only makes sense that scope clicks are in MOA.
 
True, but as you probably understood we do not need to really understand what a radian is, or how to convert to degrees to use the milrad system for shooting. On the other hand we do need to understand the ratio aspect. What we are really doing is doing a form of stadia ranging. Of course conversion to inches at a specific distance is important as well. I wonder how many users of milrad scopes could define a radian.

I'm pretty sure radians were created to confuse shooters.
 
If god wanted us to use the metric system he would have given us 10 fingers.....

Hope that sheds some light

or if he wanted us to use the imperial system he'd have given us feet..oh, wait...

and since switching to the metric system, NASA hasn't been to the moon once....
 
just remember, a gram of prevention is worth approximately one‑sixtieth a kilogram of cure. I say bring back the ultra precise measuring system of furlong/firkin/fortnight system of units.
 

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