buckhorn_cortez
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100% WRONG. A radian is neither metric nor standard measurement.
No it's 100% correct the radian is the SI accepted mesurement of angles.
No. Associating MILS or MOA with a unit length measurement system - metric or Imperial is NOT CORRECT. My fault for being unclear. The use of the word "standard" is a reference to the Imperial measurement system as that is often referred to as a "standard measurement."
The meaning of standard measurement, within this context, was a reference to the Imperial measurement system. Does that clarify it for you?
While both a MIL and MOA is an accepted measurement of an angle, neither angular measurement (MIL / MOA) is associated with the METRIC OR AN IMPERIAL MEASUREMENT systems.
They are simply angular measurements. 57.3 degrees isn't metric and it isn't an Imperial measurement.
100% WRONG AGAIN. Minute-of-angle (MOA) is simply a different description of an angle subtended at the center of the circle.
While MOA isn't "inches and yards" it is not the SI accepted unit.
"SI" is simply the Institute of Standards. While MOA is not an SI unit, there is a table of units accepted for use with the SI.
Guess what? Degrees, minutes, and seconds descriptions of an angle are listed on that table. Sorry - you don't get to claim special points because of listing on Institute of Standards.
MOA is simply a different type of angular measurement. It is accepted by surveyors, map makers, etc. as a legitimate measurement. Degrees, minutes, seconds area all used in surveying - hence the acceptance and use by SI.
Adjustments on a scope, whether MOA or MIL are UNITLESS.
Yes they are they are MOA and MIL are in fact units.
They are units of an angle. They are not units of linear measurement. You're parsing what I've written and taken things out of context. Stop it.
The nice thing? You can use EITHER UNIT SYSTEM with an MOA reticle or a MIL reticle.
It's just easy to use MIL with the metric system
1 MIL = 1 meter at 1 kilometer
And likewise MOA is much easier in inches since 1 MOA is very close to 1 inch per 100.
What's "easier" for you personally is not what's being discussed. It's just as "easy" to use MILS with feet, yards, etc.
One MIL is one yard at 1,000 yards.
Three MIL clicks on a scope is (0.1 MIL units) is one inch at 100 yards.
I think what works is what you're used to using - isn't that really what you're saying?
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