Re: Mil Dot or Nikoplex for 50-100 yard shooting?
I shoot the "smack the smiley" postal match seen here...
http://smackthesmiley.com/
Its fun and for a good cause. You can shoot either rimfire or centerfire or both as I do.
The smallest target is 10mm, guess that would be 1cm. With the nikoplex I have, 2.5-10 monarch gold, it is small enough I can hold on my .22 holes at 50 yards if I wanted to. The mildot is thicker but not by much. I still have no problem holding on the 1cm target at 50 yards. So it really would not be an issue.
It all boils down to what you get used to. I personally would not want a scope that doesn’t have some type of dot or line system in it, be that mil based or moa based. It just increases the usefulness of the optic. I shot for years using plex reticles and was happy. But now after getting into long range, I am no longer happy with a plain plex reticle.
In my mind a mildot isn't busy... You want busy, look to horrus reticles, that’s busy. But they do what they are designed too. To take someone that has little to no background in the mil system or long range and allow them to make repeatable LR hits with just a little instruction with any caliber or velocity or bullet. The mildot is the same system just the shooter has to do a little more since the grid isn’t there right in his eye's view.
BDC's are great but have a very limited usefulness, the rest is just educated guess work.
A plex is great but once you move away from the center it’s all educated guess work.
At 50 yards it’s not going to matter. But the longer the distance, the more favor you will find in a mildot once you learn to use it. Throw in wind holds and/or multiple targets at different distances to be shot in a single string of fire and the choice becomes clear.
