Mil-Dot or Standard cross hairs for hunting?

[IanS 3]

I have a TX200HC which I use for HFT and it came fitted with a Hawke Sport HD 3-9X40 scope with the standard crosshair which I find good but it seems most people doing hunting and at the club go for Mil-Dot scopes. Does anyone use a standard scope for hunting or do I need to invest in a better Mil-dot scope for hunting?

[leey 26]

I use to have the exact same scope as that and It was the best scope iv had I think I use a mill dot scope now a ags 3x9x50 and I think mill dot does help a lot in stead of guessing and resulting in a miss or badly placed shot but if you can estimate shots fine with what you have then thers no reason to change. Atb

[Lewis Ste 245]

I think piano man in his last write up said he uses a 30x30 crosshairs on his tx200

 

Lewis

[Mawders 595]

I use the mill dot reticle and find it useful if you know what your mill dots mean range wise and you definately know your target is at that range.

 

However, that said when I was alot younger before the invention and readily available mill dot system I did just fine with a standard cross hair because I learnt how much to hold over and under.

 

Amazing these days people rely on technology resulting in pulling a trigger being the only human input ha ha.

 

If you are hitting stuff with your current scope why change?

ATB Mawders

[matt_hooks 188]

It all depends on how good you are.

 

The mildot isn't inherently "better" than the standard crosshairs. All it does is provide an easy and consistent reference point for range correction. It's easier to say, and judge visually "one mildot holdover" than "about an inch over his head"

 

If you spend enough time practicing then you can achieve great results from a standard crosshair, but the mildot makes it easier. If you really get in to it you can practice and set up range tables for your rifle, so you know that if you are shooting at 40 yards you need 2 mildots of holdover for example. Not so easy to do that with a standard reticule.

[kanny 20,724]

i only use a 30/30 i tried the mildots when i came back to shooting but soon went back to a 30/30 i find it a more instinctive way of shooting thats suits my style of hunting as i like to be on the move i try not to think of range in terms of numbers ie yards/meters but just from here to there if you catch my drift..... im not knocking the mildots i see some lads n lasses are getting great results just not for me for hunting.

[Flow 18]

It depends what calibre you're using, I wouldn't be without some kind of mill dot reticle with a .22.

[milegajo 595]

It depends what calibre you're using, I wouldn't be without some kind of mill dot reticle with a .22.

 

I'm the same. 30/30 Simmons 3-9x50 for my .177 tx200 and rangefinder reticle Bushnell Banner 3-9x56 on my .22 S200. The bushnell is calibrated using chairgun so my increments are 10 yards. so zero 30 one bar 40 two bar 50 etc. Spot on and deadly. Personal preference really.

[analyticalman 4]

I changed from a standard crosshar to a Hawke Airmax with the MAP6 reticle which appears to be easier to calibrate for distance than the Mill-dot. Seems to work well for me. Zero it at say 30yds and the lines agree for the ranges that the Hawke software calculates them to be for your calibre and pellet weight.

[Daz 7 563]

i Always shot with iron sights, Never touched a scope till in the Army and then the first 3 years it was still iron sights on the SLR, GPMG, LMG,.50 Cal,

The only exception was when you put a night scope on, Then they brought out the MK 1 SA80 and more scopes were introduced from that point onward.

First Air Rifle i bought with scope was a second hand webley vulcan with a Simmons WTC 1- 5 x mag brilliant little scope 30/30.

 

atvb Daz 7

[AR177 588]

For some reason all the FAC shooters i know go for center point rifles, and the airgunners go mil dot

 

I think it might have to do with the larger variation in trajectorys .17hmr rounds hit in the center of the cross hairs no matter what you point it at (i know thats not 100% true but it does seem that way) and for air rifles you would constantly be clicking up and down with a center point so mil dot saves all that by giving you aiming markers

 

at the end of the day i think its personal preference, i will always go mil dot as i prefer the way it looks and i find it more useful, each to there own

 

ATB

 

Adam

[silentshot1 206]

Mil-dot on my .22's and 30 - 30 on my .177. Both as good as each other but find the extra reference and range finding ability of the mil-dot ret. with .22 useful.