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MRAD vs MOA. Which one?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheBoctor" data-source="post: 1937343" data-attributes="member: 107356"><p>Definitely not disagreeing with you on them both working equally well. They're two measurements of the exact same thing. It hurts my brain when someone asserts one is better than the other, they're literally the same (unless you forced everyone to switch to ranging in meters which would seriously simplify everything, but I prefer using good ole 1/2 bald eagle wingspans). </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh come on! You can't say a degree (1/360th of a circle) has Pi tied up in it and then gloss over the fact that the radian is also directly defined by it <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /> There are <em>roughly</em> 6283.18530718 milliradians in a circle, more precisely 2000*Pi milliradians. The .047 in 1.047"/100yds comes from a degree being dimensionless and the arbitrary assignment (which i'm sure wasn't actually arbitrary but i don't know why they chose it) of 360 degrees in a circle. And it just so happened that 1MOA is roughly 1" at 100yds. Pretty sweet coincidence for being a system based off of some dead kings foot <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" />. The mrad to cm/meters conversions are so much easier because the metric system is much better thought out and co-defines itself.</p><p></p><p>All around we're definitely thinking the same thing. I thought I'd seen the end of radians after school... right up until I got more into shooting. I wish I'd started with mils because the only reason I'm holding out now is that I'm in too deep with thousands and thousands of dollars of MOA scopes and know i'd lose my *** swapping them out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheBoctor, post: 1937343, member: 107356"] Definitely not disagreeing with you on them both working equally well. They're two measurements of the exact same thing. It hurts my brain when someone asserts one is better than the other, they're literally the same (unless you forced everyone to switch to ranging in meters which would seriously simplify everything, but I prefer using good ole 1/2 bald eagle wingspans). Oh come on! You can't say a degree (1/360th of a circle) has Pi tied up in it and then gloss over the fact that the radian is also directly defined by it 😂 There are [I]roughly[/I] 6283.18530718 milliradians in a circle, more precisely 2000*Pi milliradians. The .047 in 1.047"/100yds comes from a degree being dimensionless and the arbitrary assignment (which i'm sure wasn't actually arbitrary but i don't know why they chose it) of 360 degrees in a circle. And it just so happened that 1MOA is roughly 1" at 100yds. Pretty sweet coincidence for being a system based off of some dead kings foot 😂. The mrad to cm/meters conversions are so much easier because the metric system is much better thought out and co-defines itself. All around we're definitely thinking the same thing. I thought I'd seen the end of radians after school... right up until I got more into shooting. I wish I'd started with mils because the only reason I'm holding out now is that I'm in too deep with thousands and thousands of dollars of MOA scopes and know i'd lose my *** swapping them out. [/QUOTE]
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