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MOA vs MIL

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Just hold the reticle over. Make said adjustment. No need to over-complicate things. Mil or moa.
I never used MILs (except in Field Artillery, and that MILs is different than MRAD) until a friend asked me to help him understand how to use his new MRAD scope with a 6.5 Cre. I read up on the topic and mounted a Trijicon optic with reticule in MRAD on a .308 rifle and it really wasn't as complicated as I'd thought. I use both but prefer MRAD now because of the reasons mentioned above. It's more common now to see shooters using MRAD optics on the line when shooting at distances greater than 500 yards and you need to "speak" the same language that they are using.

The ridiculousness of the whole thing hit home when I was helping a member at the club zero a rifle scoped with an older Leupold (If memory serves) scope whose turret adjustments were graduated in MOA but the reticule pattern in the glass was MRAD.
 
A pro shooter can’t hold the difference. It’s 0.11 of an inch difference.
And that's a worst case scenario with your rifle that shoots literal 0 moa groups and is closer to the zero of an moa reticle vs. a mil reticle. .11" will be the worst you could ever expect.

The tiny center dot of the reticle I use the most is .16 moa.
 
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