Thread: Mildot help

As others have stated 1 mil is 10cm at 100m. If you’re like me and your brain works in inches & moa, the 10cm @ 100m converts to 3.6in at 100yds. This equates near enough to 3.6moa, (near enough for distances out to 600 yds or so)
2mildot = 7.2moa, 3rd mildot 10.8moa and so on. Input your bullet, speed, etc into any ballistic calculator and look at the chart to find the range which matches up to 3.6 moa, 7.2moa and so on. From my experience with non magnum caliber 708, 308, 260, 6506ai with a pill with decent BC and a 200yd zero you will end up around 340-350 yds for 1st mildot, 450-460 for 2nd, 550-560 for 3rd & 650-660yd for 4th. You need to check what magnification your scope uses for the mildot settings. Typically this is at max magnification but there are some scopes (eg Bushnell 6500 2.5-16x42) where mildot is set to work at 10x magnification.

Originally Posted by chainsaw

As others have stated 1 mil is 10cm at 100m. If you’re like me and your brain works in inches & moa, the 10cm @ 100m converts to 3.6in at 100yds. This equates near enough to 3.6moa, (near enough for distances out to 600 yds or so)
2mildot = 7.2moa, 3rd mildot 10.8moa and so on. Input your bullet, speed, etc into any ballistic calculator and look at the chart to find the range which matches up to 3.6 moa, 7.2moa and so on. From my experience with non magnum caliber 708, 308, 260, 6506ai with a pill with decent BC and a 200yd zero you will end up around 340-350 yds for 1st mildot, 450-460 for 2nd, 550-560 for 3rd & 650-660yd for 4th. You need to check what magnification your scope uses for the mildot settings. Typically this is at max magnification but there are some scopes (eg Bushnell 6500 2.5-16x42) where mildot is set to work at 10x magnification.

You can, and should, cut the middleman and just get the output from a calculator directly in MIL, and forget that MOA exists.


Holdovers with mil reticles are ok but without finer graduations (e.g .2 or .5mil) and accurate data you will have imprecise shot placement at ranges past 400 or so (or less on small animals). It's ok for "somewhere in the front end" of big animals. Holding over is also suboptimal if you have wind, and need to hold off for that - you rapidly lose precise shot placement.