Guys when documenting your elevation and windage knobs in your log book do you put full rotations first and then 1/4 clicks?So if my elevation knob was 2 full rotations up and 5 clicks would I write 2/5 in the logbook.
Advanced Marksmanship logbook notations
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Re: logbook notations
Use whatever system you can both understand and interpret quickly, but in my opinion I think there is a better way than your current system.
Me personally, in the event I switch optics in the future, record the actual elevation and windage setting instead of counting clicks and revolutions. So long as the scopes are tracking accurately, the setting will be the same or extremely close to it.
Also, it is easier and faster to remember and apply. For example say your turret has 10 moa per revolution, in 1/4 moa increments. If your setting is 17.5 moa, you would just set it directly to that setting rather than going one revolution and 30 clicks.
You also don't have to worry about losing count in the event you are in a stressful situation or otherwise distracted midway. Instead you are just placing it on the setting on your turret and counting be damned. Try this or don't, but like I first said use whatever method is both accurate and reliable for yourself.
Use whatever system you can both understand and interpret quickly, but in my opinion I think there is a better way than your current system.
Me personally, in the event I switch optics in the future, record the actual elevation and windage setting instead of counting clicks and revolutions. So long as the scopes are tracking accurately, the setting will be the same or extremely close to it.
Also, it is easier and faster to remember and apply. For example say your turret has 10 moa per revolution, in 1/4 moa increments. If your setting is 17.5 moa, you would just set it directly to that setting rather than going one revolution and 30 clicks.
You also don't have to worry about losing count in the event you are in a stressful situation or otherwise distracted midway. Instead you are just placing it on the setting on your turret and counting be damned. Try this or don't, but like I first said use whatever method is both accurate and reliable for yourself.
Re: logbook notations
Stop thinking in clicks. Write the MOA or Mil number you have. If you had 1/4 MOA click, 15 MOA per turn knobs then you would have 31.25 MOA, 2 revolutions for 30 MOA and then 1.25 MOA. Use the big numbers on the knobs.
If it was a .1 mil per click, 5 mil per turn knob then it would be 10.5 mils, 2 turns of 5 mils to get 10 and then 5 .1 mil clicks.
Thinking in clicks will do nothing but get you lost.
Stop thinking in clicks. Write the MOA or Mil number you have. If you had 1/4 MOA click, 15 MOA per turn knobs then you would have 31.25 MOA, 2 revolutions for 30 MOA and then 1.25 MOA. Use the big numbers on the knobs.
If it was a .1 mil per click, 5 mil per turn knob then it would be 10.5 mils, 2 turns of 5 mils to get 10 and then 5 .1 mil clicks.
Thinking in clicks will do nothing but get you lost.
Re: logbook notations
I agree use MOA not clicks (or MILS if thats what you use).
1/2 up......2 down etc etc.
What ever you do, make it constant. You might want to go back two years later and researh. Like for example you are going from Benning to 29 Palms, haven't shot there in a couple years, what will the elevation and range lay out mean to your zero. Is one range laying north and south, and another range east and west, what corrections do you need because of the light, lets say you traded your 1/4 click scope for a 1/8 min clicks. One MOA is a MOA regardless of how many clicks you need to get there.
I agree use MOA not clicks (or MILS if thats what you use).
1/2 up......2 down etc etc.
What ever you do, make it constant. You might want to go back two years later and researh. Like for example you are going from Benning to 29 Palms, haven't shot there in a couple years, what will the elevation and range lay out mean to your zero. Is one range laying north and south, and another range east and west, what corrections do you need because of the light, lets say you traded your 1/4 click scope for a 1/8 min clicks. One MOA is a MOA regardless of how many clicks you need to get there.
