Rifle Scopes Who is still hanging on to MOA

[longguntoter]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: backyardsniper</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm still a firm believer in MOA especially the IPHY reticles from USO. I just bought a 3.2-17 with the MDMOA reticle and MOA/MOA turrets. I just can't make myself like mils. I know that is what all the cool kids are using but I have been doing MOA my whole life I don't see a need to change now. I just wanted to see who was still rockin the MOA. </div></div>I do. Even though I was in the military, worked on helicopters, I have done more precision shooting out of the Marines than in, so I am used to MOA and not so much Mils.

 

[phillip61]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

actually before ya'll think i'm a dumbass I just do what my card tells me to do. and it tells me in mills and moa.

I'm somewhat of a shit stirer and I sometimes can't help myself I use to be on a bow hunting forum. same thing there. which bow is better duel cam or single cam. which bow sight is better pins or pendulem (spell). it went on and on. sometimes I find it humorous when i read the same things here moa or mils, SFP or FFP.

I would think most people have a card that tells them how much bullet drop they have at x yards and how much to compensate in moa and mils so I really can't see what it matters. If you don't have one, you need to get one.

My card says at 200yds I have a 2.0 moa drop or a 0.6 mil drop. It goes all the way to 1100 yds which is about 700yds more then I need. but reguardless of how my scope measures all I have to do is refere to my card. it doesn't get much easier than that.

 

[sandwarrior]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: recondo84</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't know dick about scopes, but a moa is 1.047". .04" is less than 1/16th. So if you add 1/16 per 100 yds at 800yds it would be 1/2". So does it really matter that a person might just say an moa equals 1". It just seems way easier to look at it that way. can a person really hold a 1/16 of an inch anyway? My scope is moa/moa. I'm a hog hunter. I rarely take a shot longer than 400 yds, I think i can live without that .25". So looking at it that way, I don't see how it could be much easier? </div></div>

You are right in that when you 'look' at it, the measurement is so small it's hardly measureable in the distance.

HOWEVER, as was pointed out to me it's not the 'looking' and ranging through an moa scope that throws you off, it's the adjustment. Because 'looking' and ranging at 1000 yds. the difference is 1/2". When you adjust up say 30 moa, you then need to come up 12 more inches. Or 18 inches or more, if you need to adjust up to 36-40 moa? See where that issue comes in?

Also, doing what your range card says, says that you did a very good job of calculating and verifying your drops. That is a good thing to do before you go out in the long range shooting world.

 

[Boydo]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

i use moa simply because thats what i learned with and thats what my scope is now. but i have been considering switching to mil/mil when i upgrade my glass.

 

[branson1369]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

Learned 30 years ago in the Corp MOA and feel good with it. I can run both and convert both for different long range shooting partners. Both are right and both are wrong its what you run best that counts. I do agree if I was new I would learn mil/mil. But as an old guy that is wearing bifocals no desire to change. And for those of you wondering FFP is useless for me since the reticle gets to samll to see clearly at lower ranges. So like Cartman in another thread I figured out why NightForce has a 5.5-22 Scope which makes ranging and holdovers at lower powers no problem

 

[jwp6114]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

Its a simple choice for me, 1/4 MOA is a finer adjustment than a 1/10 mil,

but i have no interests in a 1/8 moa scope as adjustment range is smaller and its not as fast to dial up to extream distances.

Just my .02$

 

[roggom]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

I had an 1/8 moa Nikon, dialing that thing was like turning the tv channel when I was a kid rrrap rrrrrrap rrrrrrrrap, I sold it before I had to get a pair of vice grips to replace the knob.

 

[Opticsspecialist]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

i like my moa nightforce, works just fine

 

[majohnson2]

Re: Who is still hanging on to MOA

What is the evolutions of reticles, from 1st to last? I'm using 2 MOA scopes, without any issue. I spent time working with the ballistic software and dialing scope adjustment.

Shooting yesterday out to 600yds range, the iPhone software called for 11.8 clicks of elevation. I dialed the number of clicks and was on target. I'm not sure what the difficulties as long as you spend some off range time working with scope.