Well I have recently acquired my first Mil Dot reticled scope. I cannot tell you the spacings nor the size of the mildots but the reticle is less cluttered than I thought they were, at least this one is, it's a fixed magnification scope with 7.5x magnification.
I plonked it on a .22LR bolt action BSA Supersport Five to try out and sighted it in. The mounts were on the scope and are too high but they will do for a quick test I suppose. Around 8:40PM last night I spotted a big wabbit with two half grown ones on the field edge and they were a long way out. I have a post in the ground at 95 paces and they were beyond that quite a ways. Now I sighted in at 50 yards so I tried using the 3rd dot down and overshot and all three ducked into cover
. One of the half growns popped out again a short time later with my left hand gripping a post and the rifles forestock rested across my forearm I placed the 2nd dot down on said Wabbits noggin and squeezed. There was a whack and the wabbit did the head flip thing.
Waited a while but the others were not going to play so I paced out the distance. 122 paces and the RWS Sub sonic entered just behind the eye. Now just one shot may be a fluke
but we will see over the coming days/weeks as they often appear around that spot and even have worn a run coming across the dyke in that spot.
Now I will try looking up the scope, it's a Falcon Menace CSS 7.5x50 with side focus, and see what the dots are size wise and spacing is. Now the problem as I see it unless one runs out and mearures the size of said wabbit
one cannot judge the range accurately even with a Mildot reticle and Wabbits especially at this time of year vary an awful lot in size. Oh and before someone asks we don't have seasons on Wabbits you can shoot them all year round
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