04-01-2017, 03:51 AM
Mils and MOA represent the two seminal measuring systems in the world; Metric and Imperial.
While the rest of the world have changed over to the Metric system the USA, Myanmar and Liberia have stuck with Imperial (although since 1988 the Omnibus Act has encouraged the use of Metric in the US for trade and commerce). The reason for Metric's global popularity is that is uses the decimal system (subsets of 10). This makes it easy to calculate and more intuitive than Imperial. This is especially useful for shooters when stressed and under the pump. Imperial uses arbitrary numbers for all waypoints and this makes it more difficult to calculate.
If all you need to do is remember common elevation and windages then there is no difference. But as soon as you combine that with range and object estimation then Metric/Mils beats imperial/MOA hands down.
I have used both but all my scopes are Metric, 'Mils/Mils' (Mils reticles and Mils graduations).
Mils is just so easy to use. MOA is the dark ages.
While the rest of the world have changed over to the Metric system the USA, Myanmar and Liberia have stuck with Imperial (although since 1988 the Omnibus Act has encouraged the use of Metric in the US for trade and commerce). The reason for Metric's global popularity is that is uses the decimal system (subsets of 10). This makes it easy to calculate and more intuitive than Imperial. This is especially useful for shooters when stressed and under the pump. Imperial uses arbitrary numbers for all waypoints and this makes it more difficult to calculate.
If all you need to do is remember common elevation and windages then there is no difference. But as soon as you combine that with range and object estimation then Metric/Mils beats imperial/MOA hands down.
I have used both but all my scopes are Metric, 'Mils/Mils' (Mils reticles and Mils graduations).
Mils is just so easy to use. MOA is the dark ages.