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  • Mill

    23 25.84%

  • MOA

    46 51.69%

  • Both

    12 13.48%

  • kentucky windage

    9 10.11%

  • other

    1 1.12%
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  1. 26-05-2015, 10:02 PM #1
    veitnamcam
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    Poll metric or imperial

    What do you use for correction.
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  2. 26-05-2015, 10:04 PM #2
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    Metric for anyone not living in the past. Nothing worse than working with imperial
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  3. 27-05-2015, 11:41 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toby View Post
    Metric for anyone not living in the past. Nothing worse than working with imperial
    Even the Americans gave up on using imperial to get man into space because the calculations were nigh on impossible. In the end they converted everything to SI for the calculations, ... then converted the results back to imperial.

    Me? I'm happy with anything, a measurement is a measurement and it is the same distance whatever measuring system you use and converting between them is easy. I tend to use metrics to measure distances and error at target and just to a quick mental calculation, only takes a second, to convert to my MOA scope.
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  4. 27-05-2015, 12:15 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by gadgetman View Post
    Even the Americans gave up on using imperial to get man into space because the calculations were nigh on impossible. In the end they converted everything to SI for the calculations, ... then converted the results back to imperial.
    Except I think for their first Mars (if I remember correctly) shot where they mistakenly used a mixture of Imperial and Metric in their calcs and totally missed their target and blew several billion dollars
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  5. 26-05-2015, 10:04 PM #5
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    both just to make it hard
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    The old moa way is the only way!
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  7. 26-05-2015, 10:19 PM #7
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  8. 26-05-2015, 10:41 PM #8
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    Moa all the way for this old coot.
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  9. 26-05-2015, 10:56 PM #9
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    I have four MOA scopes but now moving to Mil...
    Though my brain was 20 minutes behind my actions at a service rifle shoot a number of weeks ago, when I was thinking MOA on my new Mil scope... I got 0,0,0,0 for that particular match...
    next round was a lot better
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  10. 26-05-2015, 11:09 PM #10
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    Difficult
    I'm old enough not to have been taught metrics at school, but can see the merits in a system that is far simpler to use.
    I'm in the process of going fully metric for dialling.
    Have one mil scope, have updated my rangefinder from yards and am in the process of selling the last moa turret scope and getting another mil one.
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  11. 26-05-2015, 11:18 PM #11
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  12. 26-05-2015, 11:20 PM #12
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    brb buying a car with a speedo in mph
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  13. 26-05-2015, 11:48 PM #13
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    Yep mph speedo is perfect, I'm happy with 100 being the limit
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  14. 26-05-2015, 11:50 PM #14
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    I ticked "other" for iron sights btw
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    You'd expect a poll regarding measuring distance based on the thread title, no?
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