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| Mil Dots......................................... |
| What can be said here? Mil Dots are the most wonderful innovation in the firearms world since smokeless powder. They can perform multiple tasks with great precision. Wind speed estimation, windage correction, distance to target, size of target, hold-over for distance correction, lead on a moving target, and instant shot refernece for making accurate follow-up shots. Mil dots may be used as a bullet drop compensator, but this is not the intended purpose. The Mildot's main purpose is range estimation. Hold over, or correction should be performed by moving the scope's elevation turret. The problem is that we as americans saw fit to comingle the degree circle with the radian circle. They are not readily compatible. There are 60 minutes of an angle in a degree. there are 360 degrees in a circle, and 21600 minutes of angle sweeping around a complete circle. There are 6 radians repesented in a circle, and 1000 miliradians in each, or 6000 miliradians about that circle. At a distance VERY close to 100 yards, 1 minute of an angle represents, on paper, a space VERY close to one inch (1"). 3.6 of these make 1 miliradian. IN contrast exactly 10 centimeters can be represented by exactly one miliradian projected onto a surface at exactly 100 meters. Tell me why our scopes move in MOA, but show Mils in the retucule. Cause the people that make them think you and I don't know any better. A few companies, Smidt and Bender, adn US Optics are now producing riflescopes that preserve the inherent mathematic traits common to one of these systems- one makes a scope that subtends Miliradians, and clicks centimeters, the pther makes a scope that subtends MOA and clicks MOA. And Mildots are useless in scopes using second plane reticules. More later... |