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Dialing elevation vs mil dot holdover
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<blockquote data-quote="Jon A" data-source="post: 478836" data-attributes="member: 319"><p>With a good Mil reticle with 1/2 Mil marks I find it pretty easy to hold to the nearest 1/10th. Keep in mind, until relatively recently the NF R2 only had marks every 2 MOA for elevation which is farther apart than 1/2 Mil. And 5 MOA windage was really far apart. The R1 is finer for elevation but it's still 2 MOA for wind.</p><p></p><p>In short, either can work very well if the reticle is good and the user is practiced.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Especially with a regular mildot reticle in that scope, dialing will be more accurate (if the scope tracks reliably). Holding is a lot faster in competitions where you're against the clock and the targets aren't extremely small. If you do want to hold, I'd suggest forgetting about what the Nikon software says and print (and memorize for competition) simple drop charts in mils from JBM or similar showing the mil hold value for round distances. The odd yardages a dot happens to represent are not intuitive to use. Also, converting mils to inches to MOA and back to Mils is unnecessary and only makes things seem much more complicated than they really are--and also more error-prone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon A, post: 478836, member: 319"] With a good Mil reticle with 1/2 Mil marks I find it pretty easy to hold to the nearest 1/10th. Keep in mind, until relatively recently the NF R2 only had marks every 2 MOA for elevation which is farther apart than 1/2 Mil. And 5 MOA windage was really far apart. The R1 is finer for elevation but it's still 2 MOA for wind. In short, either can work very well if the reticle is good and the user is practiced. Especially with a regular mildot reticle in that scope, dialing will be more accurate (if the scope tracks reliably). Holding is a lot faster in competitions where you're against the clock and the targets aren't extremely small. If you do want to hold, I'd suggest forgetting about what the Nikon software says and print (and memorize for competition) simple drop charts in mils from JBM or similar showing the mil hold value for round distances. The odd yardages a dot happens to represent are not intuitive to use. Also, converting mils to inches to MOA and back to Mils is unnecessary and only makes things seem much more complicated than they really are--and also more error-prone. [/QUOTE]
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