Originally Posted by prairie_goat
Herein lies the beauty of Mils. You don't think in inches. You measure in mils.

In the above example, your friend didn't miss by a guess of 12", he missed by 1.9 Mils, which is what you as the spotter measured with the reticle in your scope or spotting scope.

You then tell your buddy the correction, in mils. He dials in or holds off the proper amount of mils for the next shot.

When everyone is on the same system, there are no math conversions needed. This not only helps to eliminate mathematical errors, but it makes the whole process a lot faster in the field.


Spot On!

In fairness its exactly the same if you had a reticule and turrets graduated in MOA..The point is you all need to be working the same units (whether Mil or MOA) and forget using linear corrections. The beauty is that you don't have to worry about exact distances re the second shot as the system sort of automatically takes that into account when you read off the correction..


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