Re: Poll: What reticle & turrets are you using?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Spuhr</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UncleBenji</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Spuhr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Miliradian is metric!
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...FAIL! Okay, with Mils at 542 yds, 1 Mil is 0.542yds. See - not metric! You just have to move the decimal three to the left - 1/1000.
Now, it happens to coincide easily with the metric system because the metric system is base 10. However, one can also divide yds into 1/1000 as well. You can measure it in Donkeys, or microwaves, or Studebakers so long as you can divide them by 1000!!
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Ok, so you actually measures your target in yards? probalby no, you do it in inches right.
so its 0,542x36=19,5"
Compared to our measurement.
1 mil on 542 meters are 0,542 meters=54,2 cm.
More commonly is it used reverse, you know your target size and you LIKELY don't know it in yards, and you certainly don't want you'r distance in inches...
Then you have to do your calculations again, with the even easaly calculated 36, and even more funny is it when not using full mils but parts of it.
So the more we discuss it, the more appearant is the fact that mil is metric.
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Just keep talking, this is getting better. I guess Pi is a distance, and Kilogram is a weight?
Again, Mils COINCIDE with metric quite nicely due to the base 10 system - but that's a fluke, a coincidence, a happenstance. I don’t use yds to measure my targets, but I understand the relationship between yds and inches, just as you understand the relationship between meters and centimeters. I know what the approximate size of a 0.542 yds at a glance, just like you know the approximate size of 54.2cm is at a glance. I had to make the EXACT same number of mental calculations as you did - one!
In your example, you just converted meters into centimeter, just like I can convert yds into inches. Is metric easier conceptually to coorelate it with Mils when attemtping to range a target at an unknown distance? Yes. Is it metric? No! That’s like saying a 13 degree angle is 2,269 centimeters – WTF!?! Instead of doing a 360 in my car, I just did a 62830 centimeter!!!
I understand what you’re attempting to say, but it’s irrational, illogical, and incorrect. It also scares people from using Mils because they think that they have to learn the metric system if they’re used to the standard system. Ultimately, all you need to know is the distance, and what your bullet drops at that distance in Mils.