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<blockquote data-quote="LouBoyd" data-source="post: 645304" data-attributes="member: 9253"><p>Read my post agian. At no point were yard mesurements compared to meter measurements. One mil is the portion of the circumference of a circle that is exactly 1/1000 of the radius of the circle. So when you see an object which subtends one mil in a scope you know that's it's 1000 times the distance of the linear dimension of that object. It makes no difference what units are used, so it works for meters, yards, cubits, or spans. You must use the same units for distance and target size, or include a conversion factor. People who think metric units find that easy. If you think in yards and decimal yards it's just as easy. If you think in yards of distance and inches of target size you'll have trouble in either the mil or MOA. However one mil at 1000 yards is exactly 36 inches. One MOA at 1000 yards is an irrational number of approximately 10.47" You'll never make things easy by mixing metric and english units. </p><p></p><p>The mils on a Horus scope are the same mils used in a mil dot scope. The Horus reticle instead of just haveing two lines each 10 mils long fills in a grid over the entire usable shooting space. Therefore you don't move the reticle with respect to the rifle to aim. You simply move the target to the correct drop and windage of the reticles markings. You determine what the drop and windage need to be by the same method you'd determine how many mils you'd need to click the reticle on a mil-dot scope. But it's a lot quicker (and typically less error prone) then keeping track of clicks or reading scope turrets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LouBoyd, post: 645304, member: 9253"] Read my post agian. At no point were yard mesurements compared to meter measurements. One mil is the portion of the circumference of a circle that is exactly 1/1000 of the radius of the circle. So when you see an object which subtends one mil in a scope you know that's it's 1000 times the distance of the linear dimension of that object. It makes no difference what units are used, so it works for meters, yards, cubits, or spans. You must use the same units for distance and target size, or include a conversion factor. People who think metric units find that easy. If you think in yards and decimal yards it's just as easy. If you think in yards of distance and inches of target size you'll have trouble in either the mil or MOA. However one mil at 1000 yards is exactly 36 inches. One MOA at 1000 yards is an irrational number of approximately 10.47" You'll never make things easy by mixing metric and english units. The mils on a Horus scope are the same mils used in a mil dot scope. The Horus reticle instead of just haveing two lines each 10 mils long fills in a grid over the entire usable shooting space. Therefore you don't move the reticle with respect to the rifle to aim. You simply move the target to the correct drop and windage of the reticles markings. You determine what the drop and windage need to be by the same method you'd determine how many mils you'd need to click the reticle on a mil-dot scope. But it's a lot quicker (and typically less error prone) then keeping track of clicks or reading scope turrets. [/QUOTE]
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