mil-dot reticle

[mushroom 14,216]

i've just bought a new scope that has a mil-dot ret' and as sad as this sounds i'm not totaly sure i'm using it right. anybody help??? p.s. the scope is zeroed at 35yards

[aaronpigeonplucker 32]

well the purpose of a mildot is that hevier pellets tend to drop at range, so if your scope is zeroed for 20 yards and theres a bunny at 40 yards then you put the mil dot juts below the place where the cosshairs meet on the bunnys head and theoreticly the pellet should hit the bunnys head. sound complicated? it dose to me. it all depends on how you've zeroed youre scope. some pepole for example put rocks out on the arear they are gunna shoot at 10 yard, 15 yard, 20 yard, 25 yard, 30 yard and 35 yard so that when the bunny (for example) comes say in between 20 yard and 25 yard then that rabbit is roughly 22-23 yards away so the hunter knows how high to aim to account for the pellet dropping as it is in flight and thats where the mildots come in! they help the hunter. im only 13 so if this sounds complicated then ask somoen else!

[ghillies 209]

try chairgun, www.chairgun.com

 

theres a poi chart (the main program) and a ret one called MDRF or sumut similar... hopefully with your new scope it'll tell you what the mildot spacing is on your ret (and if its a variable mag at what mag the spacing is 'that gap').

 

some scopes change the spacing with the magnification, the higher the mag the smaller the dot space value is.. the lower the mag the bigger.

(some scopes dont change the gap.. easy to check it though, look at something in the distance and change your mag up and down and watch the spacing either move or not move.)

 

the other thing that trips people up is some will 'advice' ''oh dead easy, set up at 35 yards and at 40 its on one dot down at 50 its 2 dots'' or what ever blurb they come out with, IT AINT SO... depends on your scope height,pellet and power.... (hense use chairgun to have a look, it'll be close enough to save a lot of time.. the rest is go try it out.)

(scope height is from roughly the center of your scope to center of the bore... the rest is fine tuneing if you want to go that far, but a just measure it with a ruler or vernia scales or something to start with.)

 

 

 

 

side note, if its your first time with a gun, sometimes teething problems hinder the proces untill your a bit more fluent and settle down a bit with the gun).

[mushroom 14,216]

it ain't my first time with a gun just a mil-dot! i just want to use my new scope correctly :search:

[ghillies 209]

yup check out the chairgun program ... it shows it nicely. the BC (untill you check yours) you can use an average sort of 0.023 or 24... the scope height, any old measurer.. the pellet weight, theres some in chaiurgun but try the list here

http://www.airgunforum.net/articles/pelletweight.htm

 

basicaly mildots 'aim points' for reference. (or points to measure against).

the further away you look the bigger the actual distance is between two, and the bigger the distance the actual dot covers.

so say your looking at the preverbial one inch disc at 5 yards, it may span two dot spaces, then at say 50 yards one acrual dot will cover it... it's one way to gues a range when you know the size of the target.

 

another way to use them is to make out a list, set out a range with targets every 5 yards and see where the pellet lands on your ret, e.g. zero'd at 35 yards and shooting at 45 yards on 10 mag it'll probably drop to one dot down.. etcetc..

 

heres the fun bit, you can go out for a few days testing and guesing, or spend 5-10 mins on chairgun to get the zero and magnification that will put you on a mil dot at a specific range..then just try it out to make sure they do actualy go there.

 

as simple as i can say it.... theyre just marks on your ret.. use them as you wish.(i got a st up that puts me on a dot or center of a space at 5 yard steps..all i need to know is how far.. hold over to that dot (or under)..its lazy but efective... better to know how many inch's and how far above/below... but hey hoe.. i'm hitting stuff lol.)

Edited February 17, 2009 by ghillies

[mushroom 14,216]

i'm hitting stuff to lol. just wanna take away the guess work