OK, I just had this brought to my attention. I was wanting a MOA style reticle in my Leupold 6.5-20x50 scope - but that is not going to happen now (thanks premire :roll: ).
He had looked into it and Leupold can install a TMR that ranges on 10x but if you turn the power up to ~18x it becomes a MOA reticle with 2MOA between the hash marks.
Questions:
Anyone doing this?
Is it true?
Think it will work?
You know what, I had never thought about that.... but lets do the math.
We know that mil-dots are 3.6" at 100 yards. We also know that 1 MOA is 1.047" at 100 yards. 2 MOA would be 2.094" at 100 yards.
So, doing our word problems from 8th grade algebra we have:
1 dot = 3.6"
want that dot to equal 2.094", so what magnification do we need?
3.6*X = 2.094
X = 2.094 / 3.6
X = 0.5817
So, we know our 10x is 58.17% of the desired magnification. Therefore, devide 10 by .5817 gives us:
17.19 power.
So, not exactly 18x, in fact, if you can, make it 17x. Also, keep in mind that the TMR has half mil hash marks, which in this case would represent 1 MOA on each of those hash marks, even better.
This is great information, thank you for mentioning it and forcing me to do some math!
So, all you MOA reticule fans out there, buy a scope that goes up to 18x but has the mildots calibrated at 10x, and then crank it up to 17x, each mildot now represents 2 MOA.... great stuff!!
MEL
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