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**Peregrino** · 12-18-2008, 10:44

FF - LR1947 and GE have more experience with MILDOT than I do. LR's last post will save me a lot of typing. I agree with GE about the TMR (and similar) but my reasoning is tangental. It's a training issue - as LR says MD is a back-up ranging device. It requires training and practice to maintain proficiency. I'm barely competent, even with a MILDOT Master (thanks for the suggestion/confirmation LR) because I don't spend enough time ranging unknown distance to maintain my skills (and my eyes are getting older

). (That's why I like LRFs.) IMHO the TMRs are easier to use for holdovers while still having a ranging capability. Most people never use the MILDOT feature for it's intended function anyway. WHAT FOLLOWS IS PERSONAL OPINION! I think holdover is easier to train on the TMR and requires less practice to maintain. If I need to explain longer range shooting to a novice, I rarely bother to discuss MILDOT ranging. Think of it as an "economy of effort" measure. It means less experienced or less "practiced" shooters can function at a DMR level with less resource investment.

I'm getting ready to demote my Super Sniper to one of my M1As. It's perfectly adequate on that platform; certainly one of the best "values" I've gotten in optics, but it's not on par with Leupold and competitors. FWIW.

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Peregrino Quiet Professional Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Occupied Pineland Posts: 4,701	FF - LR1947 and GE have more experience with MILDOT than I do. LR's last post will save me a lot of typing. I agree with GE about the TMR (and similar) but my reasoning is tangental. It's a training issue - as LR says MD is a back-up ranging device. It requires training and practice to maintain proficiency. I'm barely competent, even with a MILDOT Master (thanks for the suggestion/confirmation LR) because I don't spend enough time ranging unknown distance to maintain my skills (and my eyes are getting older ). (That's why I like LRFs.) IMHO the TMRs are easier to use for holdovers while still having a ranging capability. Most people never use the MILDOT feature for it's intended function anyway. WHAT FOLLOWS IS PERSONAL OPINION! I think holdover is easier to train on the TMR and requires less practice to maintain. If I need to explain longer range shooting to a novice, I rarely bother to discuss MILDOT ranging. Think of it as an "economy of effort" measure. It means less experienced or less "practiced" shooters can function at a DMR level with less resource investment. I'm getting ready to demote my Super Sniper to one of my M1As. It's perfectly adequate on that platform; certainly one of the best "values" I've gotten in optics, but it's not on par with Leupold and competitors. FWIW. __________________ A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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