I started to write a complete dissertation on this but I think it will just confuse you at this point. When they started putting Mil Reticles in scopes I already knew the ballistics of a .30-06 so well you could holler out a distance and wind speed and I could just tell you the dope close enough to hit a man sized target out to 1k yards. The mil reticle was put into the scope for range estimation. Converting mils was easy for me because at that point we were talking about nothing but Kentucky Windage. That's all. When you cut through the crap that's really what we are talking about here. None of that is going to make much difference to you at known distances. Nobody is shooting at you... you have plenty of time to figure it out. A Mil/MOA scope just adds 1 step. Not hard, but also I would agree not necessary either and something like a hangover that can't seem to go away.


That being said you have received good advise.... Get a Mil/Mil reticle and if you get a fixed 10x or 12x SWFA SS the focal plane business is not an issue. That's plenty of magnification for 600 yards.

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