shotgun sam Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 Can someone explain in simple terms what M.O.A and MIL are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 Minutes Of Angle, as in maths and 360degrees circles. Mil dot, usually equated to MOA most commonly when mag is at 10X on a scope. I'm sure someone can do better, I'm well down my second bottle of wine...well it is Sunday lunch.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casts_by_fly Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 MOA = minute of angle. Each circle has 360 degrees. One degree can be broken down into minutes and seconds (60 minutes to a degree). So 60 minutes = 1 degree. One minute = 1/60 derees or about .0167 degrees. Mil = milliradian. An angle can also be expressed in radian measure where 360 degrees = 2 pi radians. One miliradian (mil) is ~0.057 degrees In shooting terms, one MOA is effectively 1" at 100 yards, 2" at 200 yards, etc. At 100 yards, 1 mil is about 3.4 times that amount. Why the difference? Mils are very easy to work with. When used for range estimation (what mils and MOA were initially adopted for) you can do mil-math if your head pretty easily. MOA are harder to work with. Look at it like the difference between imperial and metric. In metric, you move the decimal place left or right. In imperial, you have to convert with 2's, 3's, and 4's for volume, 3's and 12's for short distance, 5280 or 1760 for long distance, and 14, 16, or 2000 for weight. Thanks Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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