Thread: Mil-Dot reticle help pls clever fellas

Originally Posted by Ftx325

Okay... call me stupid but why have an mrad scope then convert it to moa ? Isn't the whole point of mrad to do away with moa... I thought mrad was supposed to be easier to use. Sure as hell don't look like it if you need to recalculate everything across from moa. And shouldn't the scope manual tell you which magnification is correct for 1mil at 100 mtr. Call me old school but I will stick to moa thanks....ok , rant over

It’s normal to have a mildot reticle with MOA adjustments on the turret. It comes from the original USMC sniper rifles with Unertl fixed 10x scopes.

In this instance it doesn’t bother me in the slightest what the units the turret is in, because it is not a ballistic turret and generally I will not be dialling up with it. I want the mildot reticle because it aligns perfectly with my .308 ballistics at a 200 meter zero for simple holdover reference points. The dots correspond to 300m, 400m, 475m, 550m. I won’t be using the reticle for ranging purposes because I’ve got a rangefinder for that. So no calculators involved!

If I was to take the cap off the turret and dial up for a particular shot, which might happen from time to time, then to get past the units problem I have learnt to work in “clicks”.

This particular reticle has an illuminated centre dot which works extremely well from what I saw this week thanks to one of our helpful forum members, @johnd. Thanks again mate. The only outstanding question was the calibration magnification and I am expecting that to be 10x, thanks for the confirmation of this fellas. Once the scope is here and set up then I will do the paper on the post exercise, and determine precisely where on the magnification ring the centre dot to centre dot distance corresponds to 10cm at 100m.