How to use the MRAD reticle and Turret.
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Published 2023-07-12
Learn the basic fundamentals of the Mil-Dot riflescope reticle and turret. You may have heard this before but "everything begins with a strong solid foundation". In this video you'll receive a solid foundation on the key elements of the Mil-Dot riflescope system. Using graphics that are easy to understand you'll be able to absorb the ideas and principles behind each key element in the Mil-Dot scope system quickly. The difference of this video, as opposed to others, is that I take an approach which both defines and shows the application of the key elements (reticle, turret, and distance to target) all at once.
I take a slightly unorthodox approach when teaching others about the Mil-dot reticle system as I define and integrate all the key elements of the Mil-Dot scope together. By using this approach - defining what a milliradian is, how we arrive at it, and how it's applied by the shooter when using the reticle and the scope turrets to range a target - any learner can quickly understand the interrelated elements of the Mil-Dot scope system.
@1:36 Overview of the main concepts of the Mil-Dot scope and it's application at the range.
@2:36 Definition of Milliradian - textbook.
@2:53 Breaking down what and how we get a Radian (To better understand the Milliradian. )
@4:03 How we get 1 MIlliradian ( mIl or mrad ) from 1 Radian.
@4:50 What does Milli mean in the word "MIlliradian"?
@6:30 Putting it all together.
All Comments (19)
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thanks for an actual thorough explanation, drives me nuts when people talk only mils and don't stress the unit is radians
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Finally someone simplified this. Thank you.
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Very good, informative video. Well explained!! Thanks
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This is the video iv been searching for. This is perhaps the one tutorial that, not only explains the conversion’s, but addresses the turret adjustment. I know I will have to verify those adjustments myself, but I feel I’m closer to that than I have been. Thank you and well done👏🏽👏🏽
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Thank You !! Now I finally get it ! I'm about to go buy a new scope, and been seeing a lot of longer range shooters use MRAD, but I cut my teeth on MOA. My biggest problem as a Canadian shooter is that when I was in school, we did the switch from imperial measure to the metric system, and I never had really gotten my lil pea brain wrapped around EITHER system particularly well !! Now at 60, and recently taken up shooting as a hobby, I was given an MOA scope and I figured that out ok, but have been having trouble trying wrap my brain around going to MRAD. Now I know, and can work with it ! Thank you SO much !! You put things in a clear concise manner that I can now figure out. Now to go blow some ca$h on that new scope !! hahaha
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Great job explaining what radians are…why did you have to muck it up by taking a metric measurement and relate it to imperial measurements? That’s where everyone gets confused. As a shooter or hunter, just stick with either system (MOA or Mils) and don’t worry about conversions unless you’re ranging with your reticle and need to convert mils to yds for bullet drop. If you’re a hardcore Mils shooter, all your bullet drops should already be calculated in Mils and not require ANY conversion to imperial units or MOA equivalents. BTW, I’m American and quite familiar with MOA and yds…but Mils is a clearly superior system when ranging using your reticle. You can use ANY unit for target size and calculate range in the same units by direct measurement of the target in Mils using a ranging reticle…then convert the resultant range to whatever units you want.
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Great video. Thank you
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That was great
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One of the best videos about this topic, thank you very much sir, I have one question, a elevation with 1 click = 1 min, what this mean?
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Great video and very helpful to me as I have a couple of mil scopes, thankfully that have BOTH mil reticles and mil turrets. (folks, beware of scopes that have mil reticles and moa turrets or vice versa) But to me MOA is so much easier to use. I MOA is 1" at 100 yards, 5" at 500 yards, 10" at 1000 yards. What could be easier?
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Great Stuff!!... i am so confused on what is called Inches... that seem complicated and have not found anyone explaining how to calculate the Bullet drop inches into turret turns
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I also find it that some people understand the tenths in decimal explanation. 0.8mils is 8/10ths. For some reason it clicks with some people to use corelate the decimal places with the tenths.
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Can you show all in mm. centimetres. For 6.5 creedmoore. 140 gr. bullet
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Would love to see mrad covered in metres rather than yards.
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Im still confused if I zero my scope @ 100 yards , for 200 yards target home many click I should go up ??
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I'm a little confused sorry , if one mil at a hundred yards is 3.6 inches is the same one mil at 200 yards 7.2 inches ? Basically double ? Or if I need elevation to lift say for 500 yards I would adjust the turret settings per BC so if I need say 36 inch lift I would adjust 36 clicks ? Cheers Gareth
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If 1mil is 3.6 in at 100 yds is mil vale 1.8 at 50 yds
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for mrad/mil, may be easier to measure in metrics. e.g. 1mrad = 10cm @100m, 1click(0.1mrad) = 1cm @100m. if you have to measure in yards, stick with MOA.
