My rifle scope saga continues…

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Grew up in WV and hunted a lot there. If I was picking a scope to mostly hunt there and take a trip or two a year, this is what I would get:


Then learn about mils and quick drop. Makes life easy once you understand it. Also jealous of the NULA.
 
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Grew up in WV and hunted a lot there. If I was picking a scope to mostly hunt there and take a trip or two a year, this is what I would get:


Then learn about mils and quick drop. Makes life easy once you understand it. Also jealous of the NULA.

Yeah I got stupid lucky with the gun. My father in laws mom worked for him. Got it for years of service. Then I got it because he doesn’t hunt.


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Sell me on mil vs moa. I’ve never owned mil


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This has been explained on Rokslide many times but here goes another…

For many loads (I know this works great for my .30-06, 6.5x55, 6CM, 6 ARC, .223) load for velocities given BC, altitude, scope height, typical temperature, etc such that you get the following elevation adjustment in Mils and this is super easy to do. Works great for loads at .400-.536 G1 BC from 2650-2800 MV.

100 yards =zero
300 yards = 1.0 mil
400 yards = 2.0 mil
500 yards = 3.0 mil

So if you range a target at 420 yards it takes no time at all to come up with 2.2 mils. For one of my loads this even works +/- 0.1 mils out to 700 yards
 
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This has been explained on Rokslide many times but here goes another…

For many loads (I know this works great for my .30-06, 6.5x55, 6CM, 6 ARC, .223) load for velocities given BC, altitude, scope height, typical temperature, etc such that you get the following elevation adjustment in Mils and this is super easy to do. Works great for loads at .400-.536 G1 BC from 2650-2800 MV.

100 yards =zero
300 yards = 1.0 mil
400 yards = 2.0 mil
500 yards = 3.0 mil

So if you range a target at 420 yards it takes no time at all to come up with 2.2 mils. For one of my loads this even works +/- 0.1 miles out to 700 yards

Great explanation. Thanks


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This has been explained on Rokslide many times but here goes another…

For many loads (I know this works great for my .30-06, 6.5x55, 6CM, 6 ARC, .223) load for velocities given BC, altitude, scope height, typical temperature, etc such that you get the following elevation adjustment in Mils and this is super easy to do. Works great for loads at .400-.536 G1 BC from 2650-2800 MV.

100 yards =zero
300 yards = 1.0 mil
400 yards = 2.0 mil
500 yards = 3.0 mil

So if you range a target at 420 yards it takes no time at all to come up with 2.2 mils. For one of my loads this even works +/- 0.1 mils out to 700 yards
Even better, for wind you figure out your "base" wind speed or "gun number", say 6 mph. This is the speed that gets you .6 mil wind hold at 600 yards.

Then, it all scales really nicely. A 12 mph wind at 400 yards is a 0.8 mil hold. A 9 mph wind at 500 is 0.75 mil. 24 mph at 300 is 1.2 mil. Super simple mental math to figure wind holds.
 
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