Klem Wrote:Scope manufacturers who market Metric reticles with Imperial turrets need to be rounded-up. This normative pressure to stick to an antiquated measuring system is the bain of US shooters. The mental conversion needed between metric and Imperial when under stress is one less hassle you need, and can be eliminated so easily.
Metric reticles go with metric knobs. Imperial reticles (Nightforce do a Mildot equivalent reticle in MOA) go with Imperial knobs. Common sense I know but there are more US scope manufacturers offering Metric/Imperial than there are Metric/Metric or Imperial/Imperial and this thread wouldn't exist if Manufacturers paid more attention to how their products are used in the field.
My two cents for what it is worth, if you want to use a metric reticle get a scope with metric adjusters. Front focal plane allows you to use the reticle at any magnification (another hassle you don't have to worry about under pressure) however this comes at the expense of a reticle that expands as you dial up.
Klem:
How did we survive with the ART and Leupolds? Distances were in meters and increments in minutes! For how long? Sixty years? Just a joke.
BTW -- with the Leupold and the M-3 BDC's that were calibrated in hundreds of something with minute clicks between, guys would memorize how many 'clicks' between and divide into 100. This was normally started at 500 or 600 where there are enough clicks where one minute could mean a hit or miss. They may not even know what a minute was. Only that between say 600 and 700 there were six clicks for example so if t hey ranged something at 650 they would put on '6 plus 3'.
I do agree that if a fellow wants to use mils as an increment of elevation or windage, get a scope that has mils as increments.
LR1955