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#11 Post by **ovenpaa** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:16 am

I must admit I have a strong need for one.... tongueout

What impressed me most was just how steadily I could hold it versus my Steiner range finder binoculars which are the same magnification. The monocular is ideal for keeping in my pocket and the glass was every bit as crisp as my Leica LRF1200.

#12 Post by **dromia** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:24 am

Is it in MOA or those infernal milrads?

tackb · #13 Post by **tackb** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:32 am

it was mine you were looking through 702

and yes dromia they are in the altogether better system of mils

#14 Post by **dromia** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:39 am

No good for me then!

tackb · #15 Post by **tackb** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:28 am

whys that then? can't you work in tens?

#16 Post by **dromia** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:56 am

I think that you know the answer to that question.

I have no feeling for metric lengths I can estimate yards, feet, inches, chains, furlongs, poles, miles etc but mms, cms, ms, kms leave no pictures of distance in my head.

Metric is like decimal coinage, I need to convert it to pounds, shillings and pence for it to make any sense and have practical meaning.

So for me metric is very clumsy and not really worth the effort when I have a perfectly good Imperial system that works.

whoowhoop · #17 Post by **whoowhoop** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:59 am

+1 for that

User702 · #18 Post by **User702** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:21 am

Fair points all, but sometimes you just have a need for something that other people can understand. People like MFCs, or our light blue brethren. One of those would also be perfect for me for mil range work, maybe not so much for civ range work, but Tackb's use case is pretty much perfect for what they are.

#19 Post by **ovenpaa** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:47 am

I try to work in Mils as much as possible as it seems more intuitive to me however with so many people using MOA and many 'scopes using the same system it is hard to avoid the 'other' system. Sadly I have ended up like Dromia doing math at the firing point mostly because everyone around me talks in MOA, when did you last see a 10 Mil scope rail for sale? I blame the Americans.

Another thing, what are these Frankenstein 'scopes with drums in MOA and stadia in Mils, WTF??

#20 Post by **dromia** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:53 am

ovenpaa wrote: Another thing, what are these Frankenstein 'scopes with drums in MOA and stadia in Mils, WTF??

Scopes like that have profound psychological problems.

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