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Once you shoot a scope that actually works,you are immediately ruined. While ANY scope can be gawked through,mechanics are that which matter most and once you can TRUST same,the whole enchilada changes. I reckon a few of them things,have come to fruition and a goodly portion of your larder is losing rapid luster,in extrapolation. It happens. Hint.(grin)

In actuality,the .1 mil erector graduation,is greater than either .25" per 100yds or .25 MOA,so it takes less adjustment to correct a situation. On the finite scale a .1 Mil "click" will move POA .36" at the 100yd line,which equates to 3.6" at the 1000yd line. The typical Reupold 1/4" at 100yd adjustment,will shift POA 2.5" at the 1000yd line,if they actually did track. That of course,if you are talking the lineal scale,as opposed to pissing up a rope and trying to duoble-dip and "convert" one scale to another(Mil's to MOA). You were supposed to call FIRST,as I've been through this a bajillion times and have long sorted THE Fast Track. Hint.

Cut to the chase and try to forget everything you think you "know" and start with CLEAN Slate. Simply run come-up's in .1 Mil graduations and factor wind as a Base 10 Formula,with range graduations in 10yd increments,starting at the 10yd line. Simplistic reaffirmation,will simply stare you in the face and there's NOTHING to "convert". Hint.

As an example in 22LR at sealevel,in current conditions,in the front yard. CCI Mini-Mag's if only for consensus and archaeic reasoning,meaning nobody has never not shot it and is familiar. Velocity 1235fps as an opening move and easily corrected without a chronograph,in but a coupla shots. 1.75" sight height,a 30mm mainstay on turnbolts. Only 500yds here,but it sets the stage and correlates principles. Hint.




Bore sight,shoot a single poke at at any cited distance inside the 100yd line and simply gawk the correction. No thang to correlate,correct,apply and set zero. If you are at 90yds and factor a prescribed 50yd zero impacting 1.1 Mil's low,that is easily arranged in seconds,the turret set to the 1.1 correction,zero'd there and it will be NO "surprise" that it's dead nuts at the 50yd line and on "0". Sole malady,would be gross atmospheric calculations input,or an inordinate velocity,at said distance. Hint.

From there I wanna KNOW a coupla things. Firstly,where my reticle loses it's ability to correct both elevation and windage. The 270yd line is 9.9 Mil's and it takes but a second to confirm same,on the reticle alone. Secondly,I wanna know how much erector travel remains in the system,because everything below zero is 100% fhuqking USELESS. That constant,fhuqks alotta folks up,likely because it's too simplistic. The 10X MQ has 40 Mil's internal erector travel,on centered windage and I want to retain ALL of that,I can arrange. Thus the copious amount of 75 MOA 1913 extended rails for Anschutz 54's,at my house. No thang to incorporate 'Horn's in the fray,so as to coax PRECISELY and I've prolly a "few" rifles wearing same. Hint.

From there,it's just a simplistic matter to confirm come-up's,tune DOPE and apply same as per whim. Obviously in 22LR,favorable atmospherics will do some large favors,for making such initial determinations. Hint.

Wind is simply factored as Base 10,due the impetus being a 10mph right angle of flight path influence. A quartering wind,cuts that value in half and before you even know it,you have taught yourself more about Wind reading in 5-shots,than the previous portion of your life. Mainly because you now have a scope that measures same,by simply looking through the fhuqking thing...which really ain't that "novel" for an aiming device,but in actuality IS. Call a 330yd shot as "full value",but drift in actuality is 3 Mil's,rather than the prescribed 4 and you KNOW that it was a 7.5 mph impetus. Don't slight the magnitude,of that inherent ability and how the principle applies to ANY bullet,ANY chambering,ANY velocity and at ANY distance. All by just looking though the fhuqking scope,you are looking through anyways. Now what WILL change,is the distance you can correct same,on the reticle alone,as there's 5 Mil's left and right of center. I'll often get in a Real World LR Rimfire Condition and dial in at lull value,leaving myself 5 "fresh" Windage Mil's to chase on top of that mechanical input. It's ALL lineal and graduations can be stacked,in whichever manner of preference,to yield the sum requisite. Hint.

Looking at the above supplied chart,one can see that the 5 Mil windshield correction factor,ends at the 430yd line for a 10mph full value influence. Stadia gets bold on many things,though with even a barely trained eye,one can extrapolate beyond happily(especially in haste). 20.6 Mil's of "up" and a 5 mil wind hold,is kid's play. 'Course NONE of this can be realized at The Playground or with out actually SHOOTING,which knocks more than a few outta da' mix. Hint. LAUGHING!

Scaling up a wee bit and looking in contrast,a "lowly" 7-08 with a 180 at 2600fps in like atmosphere,burns well shy of 5 Mil wind holdoff to the 2000yd line,with a Base 10 factored. That one REALLY fhuqks with heads.(grin)

Hint.



Anywhoo,welcome to the World of schit that ACTUALLY fhuqking works!

Now as to the V-16's,they've barely 40" per 100yds of total mechanical erector(and nothing on the reticle),while a 10x MQ reticle will simply subtend at 36" correction at the 100yd line,by simply looking through it. Once mechanics enters the fray,magnification quickly goes away. As an aside,the 10x MQ will adjust 140"++ at the 100yd line,if only in "fairness". Hint.

Interesting topic,I've not thought much of this stuff before.

Laughing!

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