Wat's Guns-N-Stuff Thread
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Good enough.
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You'll be better of for it.
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Wat believes that character building doesn't consist of ways to be a "character."
Scope arrived last night. Rings are delayed. Cats are playing in the scope box.
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They do, and the shipper added a lot to that, hence the cats' box. I fished out the instructions. Reading them seems like a good idea.
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Keeping them where you can find them again is an even better idea.
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I love the look and feel of a lever gun but they hurt the fingers of my shooting hand.
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And here I was planning to commit them to memory. Better I commit their location to memory.
I have pondered a lever gun. I'm kinda thinkin' a .357 to go with the couple of handguns in that caliber.
Not a priority as yet.
MOA or MilDot reticle?
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Holy shit. It reeks of regret, Depends, and cheap booze in this thread.
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Mil dot is Milli-Radian. 1/360th.
The difference per division is quite significant at 1000 yds. I think it's something like 69 inches for 1 mil and 16 inches for 1 MOA. I could be wrong (likely am) on that though, it's been awhile since I needed those numbers.
The difference per division is quite significant at 1000 yds. I think it's something like 69 inches for 1 mil and 16 inches for 1 MOA. I could be wrong (likely am) on that though, it's been awhile since I needed those numbers.
Close but no cigar. 1 mil-rad is 36" at 1000 yds, and 1 MOA is 10.4" at 1000 yds.
I went with mildot and front focal plane with the latest scope. The front focal plane works for range finding. I'm still working on getting the mil-rad math to translate into clicks but I'm getting there.
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I knew that the MOA was roughly 1" per 100 yards. I think that I'll be sticking with that for a bit longer.
For most practical shooting purposes MOA works just fine.
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I imagine that, one day, since I now will have ranges beyond my ability to guesstimate them, I may want/need to invest in a laser range finder.
And that will be your first step on the road to shooting hell. Once you get that range finder you'll have to start memorizing your range tables. Then you figure out that wind plays a role and by golly you need a pocket anemometer. But all that information just won't work with that crosshair scope so now you need an EBR style reticle for the scope. And once you've absorbed all that you now realize that temperature and barometric pressure all play a role too so soon enough you've got a portable weather station and all that is before you start figuring in coriolis effect and spin drift. In the end you end up with a scope that provides WAY too much information, a portable weather station, and a masters degree in ballistic mathematics. 
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