Scope Reticles Explained with Former USCG Precision Marksmanship Instructor Billy Leahy

They all sounded so similar.
What do the mil marks convert to at distance?

Ok, 1 Min in, whats a mil? Duplex? Is there a starter vid?

Please look into the camera...

I still like a standard mil for sure it’s not as accurate as my g2dmr or even my milGap ret but I just love it’s simplicity

Great video! Thank you!

Thanks for sharing

What the hell is a mil? Maybe you should start by explaining that first?

What is a "mil"?

Great info, but a little too technical for a beginning scope buyer.

I’m a fan of the Leupold duplex (didn’t even make the list). Where I hunt the shots are under 250 yards, most under 100, and often the deer are moving. I may only see the deer for four or five seconds. At dawn & dusk the FireDot is a huge plus.

Great explanation...I'm going to transition from MOA to MRAD just because of the numbering convention. Also, I really appreciated the explanation of the Horus reticle. To date i favor the Nightforce reticle but with your explanation of the Horus...I may rethink this a bit more.

The intent is to not use a high tech chassis firearm but use my 2012 Model 70 Super-Grade chambered in .270...should be tons of fun but also a steep learning curve.

Thanks again!

Way too confusing 😮😮

I'd wish you'd zoom in with the camera. No one needs to see the entire frame of the instructor drawing pixels!!!

Thanks for this. The president never stood a chance.



(NSA, calm down, I’m joking.)

Got a weaver scope on a hunting rifle with a thin horizontal line and thick vertical line cross the horizontal line then it stops like front site of the iron site so do i shoot my target at the tip of this vertical line or where it crosses vertical line normality do to the fat line its blocking target shot or kill shot never seen this before on a scope? Sorry the scope mounting ring are hiding the numbers or model.

If I was on a military development team I'd have, some adjustments to the optic, military arms specific- optical- caliber specific- indexes inside optical up to max range- specific, no real field adjust needed for range, just wind

I saw a hunting scope that kinda looked like the EBR-4 MOA, but it had different circles that got smaller and smaller in a rifleman mag. They advertised that at 100 yards you lined up the game to fill whatever circle and it was on. Anyone remember the type of scope that was?

What about a EBR-2D mrad ?

Bad explanation

Amazing CGI.
Thanks.
UK has to stop being the US’ bitch.

How about the Nikon Monarch 5 20x50 scope mounted on a 20moa rail?

Sadly, he is not able to articulate what he has in his head

Are we aiming for the pituitary here?

Hi. I have 4×40 tasco scope with no dots. How will i know how to aim when its zero on 100m and you want to shoot at target on 200m. Its my first scope are used to open iron...?

Excellent video, thank you. Huge help for me as a complete new guy.

Prefer the EBR-2C in mil.

Thx for the lesson. Very useful.

Good information thank you

What is a mil?

Guess the video description should have listed prerequisites for this class. This was like jumping into a sniper AP class without basic nomenclature studies.

Conclusion, basically buy a Termor3 recital cause that's what I use and it's the best compared to all of these... Roger That!

Am I wrong to see this as an "art" thats akin to polishing the brass on the titanic ...?
We're now seeing FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS ... which do all the aiming for us.
Using a langer to range it, a reticle you place on the target, press and hold the trigger to AUTHORIZE the system ... which then waits for our inability to hold the rifle stead ... to encounter the alignment to the target which initiates the hammer-drop and the projectile to find it's "mark." ......? No dope cards. No mathing the "earth's spin" ... the HEAT, the bump of our heartbeats ... as we hold our breath to control elevation .....?

In fact, there's no reason to think we'd need to be any closer to the rifle than the range of a remote control which is programmed to "release ordinance." We could sit transverse to the position the rifle was fired from, so as the hornets nest begins to charge the location of that "oh so evvvvil sniper was ... as mortars and even artillery is dropping on it's head ... we're just watching from a position that's opposite to the rifle's vantage. Then, when done, we could release a chemical attacking agent on the systems of the rifle that disintegrate it ... with a grenade (or better, a claymore) underneath it ... which is our last "message" we can share with our rifle and those lucky enough to have found it. Ooooopsie poopsie. MA bad!! :)

Granted, I LOVE understanding principle; but when you're in the field, isn't it hard to think about nothing else other than who you are to kill another person ...? Even in agreement with it, all things being equal..? I'm not looking for a fair fight. Heck. I'd prefer the M2 .50 cal did my dirty work for me from the max effective range. :)

super refined Kentucky windage.... great video

Okay, now if I sight my scope in at 100 yard zero do i then adjust my adjustment on the turrets to zero so I have an up and down and sideways left right to zero?

As someone new to scopes, this is clear as mud.

Good video!!

It would help if I knew if any of the words he said meant

Check out the Nightforce Mil-XT, He marked it as 2ml but it is actually 3ml. Right of the center

Really great presentation and explanation. Loved the Horus reticle with the speed calibration. Cheer.

You need to begin with a definition: a mil scaled reticle is a means to measure distance to target and can also be used for a bullet drop compensation function. For ranging just multiply target size in yards times 1000 equals X and then divide X by target size in mils equals yards to target. For bullet drop compensation function just zero scope to a placeholder distsnce and then transcribe bullet drop in mils to range card from zeroed distance to greater distances off a trajectory calculation for your bullet/velocity. That’s it.

Thank you

What are the functions of those gradation???? The accompanying leaflets or brochures to the scopes would explain the technical details which he gave!

Loo-Pold.

Awesome thanks!