Zero Stop

[Iron Hide776]

Reading on Vortex PST FFP 6-24x50 MRAD and SIII 6-24X50 LR FFP MH.

What is zero stop?

Also is MRAD same as MH?

 

[Kosmos]

Nightforce has a nice video on "zero stop"
I am almost sure the MRAD and MH are referring to reticles in the optics.

 

[lash]

MRAD means milradians or mils. MH means Mil-hash. A Mil-hash reticle is a type of MRAD reticle. Look online to see which reticle is offered for any scope you are interested in. I happen to like the mil-hash reticle in the Sightron SIII.

Not everybody needs zero-stop. Those that shoot practical/tactical matches like it for the speed with which they can see where they are for quick timed shots at various ranges.

 

[Iron Hide776]

Thanks Kosmos for the video. Sounds like a good thing to have but still trying to figure out which optics to go to.

So I take it that MH being hash that the vortex looks like hash marks. Is there a picture of the Sightron SIII 6-24X50 LR FFP MH reticle for comparison?

 

[KYpatriot]

You can usually make your own zero stop on scopes that don't have this feature by shimming the elevation turret.

 

[lash]

Thanks Kosmos for the video. Sounds like a good thing to have but still trying to figure out which optics to go to.

So I take it that MH being hash that the vortex looks like hash marks. Is there a picture of the Sightron SIII 6-24X50 LR FFP MH reticle for comparison?

I'm not positive that this is exactly the Sightron SIII 6-24x50 FFP MH reticle, but it looks very much like this:

http://info.sightron.com/Riflescopes/SIII-First-Focal-Plane/SIIISS624X50LRFFPMH/

Note that all the dotted lines, letters, arrows, etc. are an illustration as used in the instruction manual, so that you know what each delineation means on your reticle. The actual reticle is much less cluttered and looks more like this except that the center dot is not red and is smaller:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct...1RPU_zjKHQg46l1h1is1U8LA&ust=1394049950441565

I personally like the floating center dot.

EDIT: OK, so the links are not as good as I had hoped, but you should get the idea if you take a minute to find the reticle pics on those links.

 

[Iron Hide776]

Hey I found this

SIGHTRON SIII 6-24X50LRFFP/MH - The Optics Talk Forums

Does that look right?

 

[Iron Hide776]

You can usually make your own zero stop on scopes that don't have this feature by shimming the elevation turret.

So if I do that will I loose elevation?