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  1. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    I don’t think it will give you anything. You’re gonna have to collect all that data for yourself by going out and shooting in those different conditions and distances. I’m not saying it isn’t good, but to me it seems limited and it’s something you “can” use instead of a ballistic calculator, but...
  2. DM1975

    Rifle Competition Events What would you change or do differently with current competitions/organizations?

    This has become a big problem for me. My knees just keep getting worse and I can get down in the positions somewhat ok, but getting up from them takes a whole lot of time and effort now.
  3. DM1975

    Rifle Competition Events What would you change or do differently with current competitions/organizations?

    I have a 15 year old daughter to help with that. She’s pretty good with the Ruger precision rimfire on a 2” steel at 200 yards. Planning on pushing her out to 300 soon. Got her milling targets now too.
  4. DM1975

    Rifle Competition Events What would you change or do differently with current competitions/organizations?

    I’ve been thinking about starting something similar up here. The local range just started hosting NRL22 so I might go poach some people there one of these days.
  5. DM1975

    Rifle Scopes SWFA Teasing Announcement?

    I was kinda hopeful after seeing the cyclops joe video talking about how revolutionary it would be to the optics world comparing it to personal jet packs and then they roll out “new” 20 year old tec. I didn’t think it would be “that” revolutionary, but I did expect more.
  6. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    Good point. And I’ll add, if you’re walking or driving back and forth to check the hits on paper then you certainly have the time to actually do the proper math. For mils, I think a lot of new shooters get put off thinking you can’t use mils with inches, or that it’s complicated math to do so...
  7. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    I covered truing BC in a post after that. I true velocity under 600 yards and true BC over 600 yards.
  8. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    Another thing to consider is to shoot better ammunition. If you shoot something like Hornady they, like most, will publish their highest BC on the box which is usually only accurate out to around 300 yards or so. As the bullet slows the BC changes. Hornady publishes three different BC’s for...
  9. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    Things can get confusing pretty fast if you’ve got no experience with it. Just be systematic about it. Learn your gear, learn how to use it properly. Download something like Hornady 4dof or Applied Ballistics and just sit on the couch and watch a few YouTube videos on it and play with it and get...
  10. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    After you get your muzzle velocity trued you should then shoot out to wherever your bullet is now mach 1.2-1.3 or so (I don’t remember the actual speed off hand) and do the same thing except this time you adjust BC to get the drops to match.
  11. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    So your ballistic app will give you firing solutions for whatever distance you want if you put in your information correctly on BC, bullet weight, velocity, sight height over bore, and proper environmental data. This is generally pretty close to accurate. After you do this go to the range, go...
  12. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    Remember using your reticle, when it says your off by whatever mils that’s a direct relation to what you should dial regardless of distance. Get a ballistic app and plug in your bullet info and it will give you your drops in mils or MOA for you instead of shooting at each distance to get your...
  13. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    If your scope adjusts in mils and your reticle is in mils then it tells you exactly how much to dial. No need for inch conversion or centimeters or whatever.
  14. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    Just use your reticle.
  15. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    It’s precision, not guess-ision or close enough-ision.
  16. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    My post was in support of your information. As in there’s no excuse to be using 1” as 1 MOA.
  17. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    And really if you’re going about it that route you should be working out your drops off range before you ever leave the house. How hard is it to just simply do the actual math at that point? If you’re waiting to get to the range and then looking at inch drops and trying to convert on the fly...
  18. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    What helped me when switching from MOA to mil adjustment was thinking of each click as about 1/3rd MOA adjustments. That initially helped keep me from getting lost. 3 clicks is extremely close to 1 MOA.
  19. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    Learning a mil was 1 inch at 1000 inches and that a 1000 inches was 27.77 yards or 25.4 meters gave me an instant understanding of how the mil relation formula worked and after that I didn’t have to worry with keeping it memorized any longer. It was like a light switch being turned on for me. I...
  20. DM1975

    Advanced Marksmanship How to convert inche drop at 1000 Yards to Mils

    For me learning those things helped me better wrap my head around mils. Granted, like you say it’s practically useless for the most part and I only ever use mil relation to linear measurements if milling a target, but it helped me gain a better understanding of what I was doing. If that makes sense.
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