Re: Mil/Mil vs Moa/Moa
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rjroberts</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mils are just a ratio of 1 to 1000. It's 1 meter at 1000 meters (kilometer) or 1 yard at 1000 yards. The only reason people even talk metric is because 1 mil at 100 meters or yards is an odd number in inches and will be 10cm at 100 meters. The only advantage of the metric system in general is it's divisibility by 10, making some of the math easier. But, only some. As with anything else, one can select an example to make it look easy or the "numbers come out even." For example, 2 mils at 1000 yards represent? A 6 foot tall man. How neat. Of course, 1 mil at 100 yards is 3.6 inches, hardly something easy if multiplying anything but a carefully selected example. The most essential aspect of the system is ranging. One can memorize or construct on a card a bullet drop table in either metric or inch.
That said, if you are younger, go with mils and metric. That's the way everything is going, for better or for worse: it is what it is. How tall are you in metric? Quickly!!! There's the reason I use MOA. Yes, one can say I'm an old fart and set in my ways. Don't know if I'm set in my ways but I do feel I should benefit from my experience. If you were to point at some object and ask the size - the first component of the ranging calculation - I would answer in inches. Grew up with it, got used to it. I lived in Europe for a while and know metric and can hold up my thumb and forefinger to show you if you asked me to show 10cm. But, I will instinctively think in inches. So, MOA works for me. If you can answer the question, quickly, instinctively and under stress how tall something is in metric, you are ahead with mils solely because of the divisibility by 10.
BTW, I'm 188cm tall - don't think I'd want to deal with that calculation in my head and, I'm of a generation who memorized multiplication tables and learned to figure in our heads - no pocket calculators were even thought of when I was a youngster in school.
To answer simply the originally posted question: consistency is the key to everything. </div></div>
I like the way you put this rj, i grew up the same way learning inches, i know many here think mils is the way to go and everyone has their own opinion, me i say metric... hell with it, i think most of us learned inches when growing up, its been the US standard, inches, lbs...etc, ask me what i bench...lbs i don't answer in kilos, seems like our means of measurement are adjusting to the worlds, like i said everyone has their opinions, maybe someday i will look into a metric scale, i suppose its good to know both, my MOA turrets and reticles are good enough for who its for, and when i tell people my rifle shoots sub MOA, they seem to understand me better than telling them it shoots sub mil.
