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My buddy and i have been doing some long range groundhog hunting with our 22-250. The loads are within 50 fps of of each other and same bullet. I ran our ballistics through my shooting program. My scope is a Nikon 1/4 moa adjustments. His is a Simmons with 1/2 moa adjustments. At 500 yrd my scope gets adjusted lets say 6 moa when sighted in at 100 yrd but his get 12 moa. Now i though that 1 moa was 1 moa. So to get 1 moa i need to go 4 click on my scope and he needs 2 clicks, or so i though. So if i need 6 moa at 100 yrd, i need to go to the number 6 on my knob, if the knob is zeroed. He should do the same right. so I'm confused. When i set my ballistics program to 1/2 moa it works for him. I though it would be the same but he would not be as precise at longer distances. Can someone explain this to me.

His is a Simmons. Relying on that POS, for anything other than using it as a long-range target, is betting on a broken stick.

Not to mention that your zero range may be different, as with the sight's height above the bore, etc.

Both scopes are on low rings. but wouldn't you think that if both scopes are set at zero and you turn the knob to 1 that they both would have move 1 moa. Even on my Sierra balistics program it changes when you change the settings for 1/4 moa to 1/2 moa.

buckkiller,

It sounds like the number scales on your both your scopes are graduated in MOA...

On yours, I bet each numbered graduation is broken down into 4 quarter MOA clicks, where as you buddies scope has his graduations broken down into 2 half moa clicks..

Regards,

Peter

Are they both sighted-in at the same distance?

As Pete mentioned, is the number "1" on his scope 2 clicks from "0"?