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danjojoUSMC
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Rancid Coolaid was wrong in this case, he has a lot of knowledge and I learn from what he says....same goes for you supertool.
His statement of 1MOA being 2 clicks at 200 yards is something I just wanted to clear it up in case a brand new guy read it and got confused or misinformed. |
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Sparky
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I think what both RC and Supertool73 are saying is if you need to adjust one inch at 200yds it is 2 clicks. And one inch at 100yds is 4 clicks. Where as with the Mil Rad you do not need to convert since if your POI adjustment is 1 Mil Rad at what ever distance you are talking about it is still just a 1 Mil Rad adjustment on your scope no matter what the distance is.
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Rancid Coolaid
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I admit I was wrong on the delineation of mils and MOA (both are angular measures) but on a 1/4MOA knob, 4 clicks at 100 yards is one inch, and the same 4 clicks at 200 yards is 2 inches due to the angular measure. At 600 yards, 1 click of a 1/4MOA knob is 1.5-inches of movement on target. If the knob is 1/2MOA, a 2-click correction at 200 yards would be 2 inches on paper: if I mis-spoke earlier, sorry. To calculate change on target with a 1/4MOA turret, the correction 1/4 x (hundreds of yards as a decimal. Hence, 600 yards is 1/4 x 6 = 6/4 = 1.5 inches on target. At 300 yards, a click is 1/4 x 3 = 3/4 inches per click.) Make more sense? Edited by Rancid Coolaid - September/03/2009 at 18:01 |
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danjojoUSMC
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Makes perfect sense my man....just wanted to bring it up for other newbies.
I really like that with the Horus scopes you can range with either MOA or MIL...hope you guys that do a lot of shooting put them through their paces once SWFA starts to carry them and then give us feedback. Their Hawk scope seems pretty cool since it is FFP, mil/mil, etc. and only $549. I would like to see how people feel about its parallax issue/non-issue on 12x and if the eye relief change is very bad. |
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Trays 7940
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Well, now Iam going to show my ignorance.
Chris II was attempting to tell me about mil rads the other day. I was a bit confused and I hate being confused. After reading the article CF posted, it makes a lot of sense and seems to be a lot easier. Being a former science teacher, breaking things down into .1 is a lot easier and neater.
I just got MOA down and now I find it could be easier...
I really wish the SS 3 x 9 was a SS 3 x 10...
Thanks for the info!
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supertool73
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Ah, even after reading it 4 or 5 times I was still seeing his quote of MOA as inches as Sparky explained. My mind was thinking inches even though I say MOA. Good call on the correction, my bad for correcting your correction of his incorrectness. |
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danjojoUSMC
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That last sentence makes me think of V for Vendetta...
So what is the size of the SS Variable anyway...I don't see it on the swfa.com site and have been curious. |
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Rancid Coolaid
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I think I measured it somewhere in the ballpark of 13.5 - I'll go back and look for the post with the exact weight and length.
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