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There are countries that use the metric system and there is one country with a nice collection of Moon Rocks.

Just Sayin.

True that is.

the girls like it when you express your unit in mils, you heard me right babe...1.7

Maybe you missed this last time around. When did Leupold add a Mil-Dot reticle and does it pre-date the 1969 Kahles?

Oh hell, what’s next.

if hunting matters to you then set up, practice with, and use what your brain is wired for because outdoors is where Murphy lives and where we go on auto-pilot and revert to instincts to fold tags...

anything works on steel and playtime at the range, too much of that practice though, especially if it's in non-instinctual units etc. will be more likely to catch you with unfolded tags than anything else, I'd rather take my 0-600, hold inches for wind, hunting set ups to play prs and suffer at the longer end where you don't kill things anyway than drag a prs set up hunting where it's just a bunch of fat and noise destined to have you meeting murph out there on animals in the ranges animals are killed, pick your priorities, lots of time you can crossover and get it mostly done most of the time...the really smart ones who value hunting over all else...won't do that however

a little of the right practice with the right set up goes a lot further than a ton of practice with the wrong stuff, what are you wired for, and what is your priority? trophies made of fur and antler? or brass and glass? hmmmm

can't wait for this prs fad to fully be exposed and we cycle into a more rational fad lol

Here’s my formula for MOA, 10/3/1.047 =3.18 MOA.
10 inches of drop/300yards/1.047=

What is the similar equation for mils?

So, if a guy was going to test his MOA scope on a tall target at 50 yards anticipating 48ish MOA of come-ups shooting every 12 MOA, how far apart would his marks be on the tall target? The scope is supposed to be true MOA. Can I just mark every 6 inches above point of aim? What do you guys do?

6.282" on a 7" calipers would get you there.

At 100 yards an moa is close to 1.047", so halve that for 50 yards.

Got it. Thank you.

You should post a link. Euro optic typically have metric adjustments which approximate a Mil radian but I can find no reference of the scope you referencing.

They came aboard the Steyr SSG69

Again post some kind of link or cert.

The Kanucks used that optic on early sniper rifles but never did it have a Mil Dot reticle in those applications.

Thanks.

To be a further pedant, it's not the mixing of units that's the issue, but the mixing of quantities. Linear displacement versus angular displacement.

Not sure you need a formula. You just use a dope card. Its not that hard. No reason to convert linear measurements to angular measurements and then back again.

A little help here guys?

It works the same way if you insist on converting between linear and angular measurements.

"1 moa subtends 1.047" at 100 yards" corresponds to "0.1 mil subtends 1 cm at 100 meters".

I agree that for dialing/holding DOPE, there is no reason at all to think in linear quantities. For measuring group size or target size, you can also use the fact that 1 mrad is equal to 3.6" of displacement at 100 yards. So you could do the equivalent calculation as 10"/3/3.6"=0.926 mrad.