roval
Member
i'm getting confused. i'v always understood that mildots are representative of 1 milrad between the dots(center to center). but a gun shop employee who was supposedly ex army sniper glibly said milrads are not the same as the distance between mildots. i've read that the military rounded off a circle to 6400 mils instead of 6175 for ease of computation( plaster, ultimate sniper) but i don't think this was what he meant. when i asked him what he meant he just shrugged and said they were not the same. this was in the context of me looking at a scope with hash mark milrad reticle instead of mildots. (it was a mil mil scope(vortex pst) so he wasn't talking about the adjustments). i've brushed it off but then i asked another employee some other time if was truly ex sniper and he confirmed so I asked him the same question and he agreed that they were different but couldn't explain. were they just full of it or am i misunderstanding something.