Military style scopes?

Does anybody know of some good quality military style scopes on the market? I call them 'military style scopes' because I have seen them only on some military sniper rifles. There might be a better term for describing these kinds of scopes. I am asking about the kind of scopes that have tick marks along the crosshairs and used as reference marks for holding over or under to compensate for range and for holding right or left to compensate for wind and ballistic drift. I have not ever seen any newly manufactured scopes of this type for sale in gun shops or at gun shows. The few scopes of this type that I do see are military collector items and they are priced very high accordingly. I would suppose that the reason why I don't see any newly manufactured scopes of this type is that they aren't very much in demand. I don't know why scopes of that type would not be very popular good sellers unless they might be too expensive to manufacture. IMHO, having tick-marks along the crosshairs would be a very nice feature to have in a scope.

Sam Heywood

Over the years numerous manufacturers have offered scopes with various types of range estimating systems inlcuded in the optical field. check the various manufacturers such as Leupold under the listings for 'Tactical' scopes. Unertl is also currently offering a civilion version of ther scope it first uilt for the marine crops but its very expensive ($2500.).

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These are called mil-dot scopes. A search for 'mil-dot' on natchezss.com will turn up scopes from under $60 (a Tasco) to $500+ (Leupold, etc.). There are even some with Bullet Drop compensators though maybe not at Natchez.

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Many thanks to all of you who replied to the newsgroup and by email to my questions on this subject. I received some very good and informative feedback from all of you who replied.

All the best,

Sam Heywood

# # # # Does anybody know of some good quality military style scopes # on the market? I call them 'military style scopes' because I # have seen them only on some military sniper rifles. There # might be a better term for describing these kinds of scopes. # I am asking about the kind of scopes that have tick marks along # the crosshairs and used as reference marks for holding over or # under to compensate for range and for holding right or left to # compensate for wind and ballistic drift. I have not ever seen # any newly manufactured scopes of this type for sale in gun # shops or at gun shows. The few scopes of this type that I do # see are military collector items and they are priced very high # accordingly. I would suppose that the reason why I don't see # any newly manufactured scopes of this type is that they aren't # very much in demand. I don't know why scopes of that type # would not be very popular good sellers unless they might be too # expensive to manufacture. IMHO, having tick-marks along the # crosshairs would be a very nice feature to have in a scope. # # Sam Heywood

The tick marks as you call them are actually a vertical and horizional mil scale. A mil is generaly defined as a 1000th part of the distance at the distance

In the Military there are 6400 mils in a circle. A minute of angel would result in a scale of 360 degrees X 60 minutes or 2100 minutes in a circle So then mil scale is really a 20 second of angel scale.

The Independent

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