MOA adjustments

Dakota1 · Post by **Dakota1** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:35 pm

How important is 1/8 MOA adjustments vs 1/4 MOA. I understand the difference, but being unfamiliar with sb silhouette, I do not know if this is a big factor in during a competion.

Since I am buying my first silhouette scope, opinions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

genphideaux · Post by **genphideaux** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:17 am

Dakota1,

Welcome, with 1/8 you may have to make more than one rotation of the target knob out to the rams. In the hectic pace of a match some people forget to reset there knobs to zero and then pick up the gun and have their settings one or more full rotation off. With 1/4 this is less likely. I have used both and perfer the 1/4 MOA, but then again I like to keep it simple. Many on this forum use the 1/8 and swear by them so the choice is pretty much a personnal thing, me I swear at anything.

papabear · Post by **papabear** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:53 am

With a wobble like mine , a 1/4 moa or 1/8 moa does not make a whole lot of difference when adjusting my sight adjustment. Sometimes it even helps me, If I miss just right the wobble will bring it back to the animal,

But I agree with the Dawg, keep it as simple as posible. I even have little markers on my scope knob to let me know where to set it.

slowstdy · Post by **slowstdy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:45 am

papabear wrote:But I agree with the Dawg, keep it as simple as posible. I even have little markers on my scope knob to let me know where to set it.

Now that is a good idea. I have little animals that i stick on the focus ring, so now i will stick little animals on the elevation knob. Now why did i not think of that....LOL

Quonset Hut · Post by **Quonset Hut** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:49 am

slowstdy wrote:
papabear wrote:But I agree with the Dawg, keep it as simple as posible. I even have little markers on my scope knob to let me know where to set it.
Now that is a good idea. I have little animals that i stick on the focus ring, so now i will stick little animals on the elevation knob. Now why did i not think of that....LOL

THe guy who got me into the sport would put a drop of different colored model airplane paint on the turret for the normal settings of each animal.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:52 am

I just write my settings down on my notebook or on a sticker that I stick to the gun somewhere. I've had settings with same rifle and lot of ammo differ with different temperatures/conditions so I am hesitant to stick anything permanent to my scope turret. For instance, I've had to go up 9 1/4 minutes from chickens to rams with Wolf Match Target when it was very cold, but only 8 1/2 minutes when it was hot.

eeleater · Post by **eeleater** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:16 pm

As has been said, the primary disadvantage is having to make more than one revolution to go from chickens to rams. This means you should have your settings recorded in a way that you can easily check them- something you should actually do with either MOA click value...

The settings required WILL vary with changes in environmental conditions- as well as with changes in ammunition used. I suspect hose who use a permanent mark are doing that knowing they (1) have a case or two of that lot of ammunition and (2) will ocassionally have to remember that tody they need to be 1 click high or low on the X animal and then 2 or 3 on the y animal etc.

It gets more interesting if you have and use scopes with both click values and adjust for windage in a match using them. Its a lot easier to get 1.5 MOA with 6 clicks than having to count out 12- and its really a problem if you put in the adjustment for the "other" scope.

From the above it sounds like I prefer the 1/4 MOA- and I do- but not enough to consider not using a Bushnell 4200 8X32 as one of my scopes...