wanting to know what is easier to learn, MOA or MIL?

[LRRPF52]

For ELR with a .50 BMG, I would lean to Mil.

MOA is easy to relate to inches, but the increments you use on the turrets get rather larger mathematically, with 2 whole numbers and decimals that can be either 1 or 2 places, which is more for the mind to process when it needs to be focusing on other things.

Mils gives you a whole number and one decimal place, until you start getting out beyond 1000yds, where you will have 2 whole number places and a decimal.

I would get a 30 MOA base, and a scope based on Mils.

Another reason why someone in your shoes should go with Mils is because you are going to be working with a spotter when you shoot those distances.

Pretty much every spotting scope with a reticle I know of, sans maybe one, will have a Mil reticle in, and it just makes life easier for giving you corrections.

You don't want to be doing math calculations to convert from MOA to Mil or Mil to MOA while the conditions change on you for your next shot, so Mil will make your shooter-spotter dialog go a lot quicker.

These are my takes on the matter, having done a bit of ELR shooting, including the big bores like .338 LM, 7mms, .300 Win Mag, and .50 BMG.

BTW, .50 BMG is fun with incendiary rounds on steel, for real estate that will allow it (fire concerns).

Oh, please tell me this isn't a Hesse/Vulcan/Blackthorne .50 BMG.




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