Anyone else find it funny that most precision shooters nowadays use Mil/Mil scopes, but we still judge rifle accuracy on the basis of MOA?
I understand that it is easier to say you have a 1MOA rifle (or 1/2MOA or 1/4MOA) vs saying 0.29mil rifle (or 0.145mil or 0.0725mil). I was just thinking about it as someone that came into this hobby/way of life/savings killer recently in the past few years and has never owned or a shot an MOA/MOA scope, let alone a MOA/Mil optic. So really, I have never used minutes of angle, and yet that is the yardstick by which everyone judges their rifle.
I understand it might be carry over from an old system, and hell some guys still use MOA/MOA optics, I think it is just going to be interesting to see if it carries on for a few decades, while MOA scopes get phased out, will new shooters be asking wtf does 'MOA' stand for, and why is that the measurement of rifle precision?
Dont get me wrong, I am not going to start saying I have a 0.145mil rifle, 'half MOA' is so much simpler, it just got me thinking.
I understand that it is easier to say you have a 1MOA rifle (or 1/2MOA or 1/4MOA) vs saying 0.29mil rifle (or 0.145mil or 0.0725mil). I was just thinking about it as someone that came into this hobby/way of life/savings killer recently in the past few years and has never owned or a shot an MOA/MOA scope, let alone a MOA/Mil optic. So really, I have never used minutes of angle, and yet that is the yardstick by which everyone judges their rifle.
I understand it might be carry over from an old system, and hell some guys still use MOA/MOA optics, I think it is just going to be interesting to see if it carries on for a few decades, while MOA scopes get phased out, will new shooters be asking wtf does 'MOA' stand for, and why is that the measurement of rifle precision?
Dont get me wrong, I am not going to start saying I have a 0.145mil rifle, 'half MOA' is so much simpler, it just got me thinking.
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