Chest

Height

Mil Dots Antelope

or Deer

Distance 5 100 yds 2.5 200 yds 1.66 300 yds 1.25 400 yds 1 500 yds 1 Mil Increment

100 yds - 3.6"

200 yds - 7.2"

300 yds -12"

400 yds - 14.4"

500 yds - 18"

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid... The idea is to read distance by simply looking thru your scope while aiming. No complicated calculations... Just look and know the distance. Explaining how it works makes it seem more complicated than it is, so please bear with me as we go thru the numbers.

Look at the "C" dimension in the chart and on the reticle above. 1 Mil at 100 yards is 3.6 inches or 1/10th of what it is at 1,000 yards (1/10th of 36 inches). At 200, 300, 400, etc... it is 2/10, 3/10, 4/10, etc. So, if you know the size in inches of a target, you can tell how far it is by the number of mildot increments it spans in your scope.

Looking through the scope at a target 100 yards away, the distance between centers of two mil dots is 3.6 inches. If you figure the chest of a deer or antelope to be 18 inches high, at 100 yards the number of Mil dots it spans is 18 ÷ 3.6 = 5 Mil Dots. So, if you look at a deer through the scope and the chest spans 5 Mil Dots, that deer is 100 yards away. If the chest spans 2.5 Mil Dots, then the deer is 200 yards away... and so forth. See the charts at left. You should make your own chart for the dimensions of your target. This is the easiest way to estimate distances with Mil dots.