Understanding Mil-dot reticle

[xibunkrlilkidsx]

Perhaps you have turned the scope magnification up?
The reticle is 2nd focal plane so it's only accurate at the original power.

this was on the shooteready.com simulation that was posted. its a 12" plate with either 10 or 20 magnification. and the program says to zoom in to help range.

both are on a 12" target
at 20 magnification i get a reading of 2.5, 2.6 mils. take that to my mildot master and it tells me the range is right at about 133yds

at 10 magnification it is about a .6mil its gets me about 360yds.

in order for my card to be at the right setting the target would have to read at like .3mil to get right reading.


now ive used this card with my Nikon Buckmaster and it has worked well. so im confused at where im losing it on the game.

[trilogy]

To me it looks like .8 mils at 10x and 1.5mils at 20x. It works out to 416ish yards using the (target in inches x 27.778 / mil reading) formula. Mils are only good in the 10x setting or divide by 2 in the 20x.

--Matt

[xibunkrlilkidsx]

To me it looks like .8 mils at 10x and 1.5mils at 20x. It works out to 416ish yards using the (target in inches x 27.778 / mil reading) formula. Mils are only good in the 10x setting or divide by 2 in the 20x.

--Matt

gosh that would be helpful for them to add in during that quick tutorial.

[trilogy]

gosh that would be helpful for them to add in during that quick tutorial.

They make you buy the CD for that

--Matt

[ar15barrels]

gosh that would be helpful for them to add in during that quick tutorial.

It was glaringly obvious to me when I tried it...

[xibunkrlilkidsx]

ya well im stupid figured it out why i wasnt reading it right on my card.

[RogueSniper]

Good info. I have a Konus M30 and this info will help me out.