FFP against SFP Scopes.?

[Antoni]

For the benefit of amateurs like me, I wish people would elucidate at least once what those TLAs mean.

[Three Letter Acronyms]

[angrybear]

For the benefit of amateurs like me, I wish people would elucidate at least once what those TLAs mean.

[Three Letter Acronyms]

FFP - First Focal plain
SFP - Second Focal Plain
POA - Point of Aim
POI - Point of Impact
MOA - Minute of Angle, imperial aiming system, 1 MOA = 1" @ 100yds, 10" @ 1000yds (near as damn it)
MRAD - Milliradian, Metric aiming system, 1 MRAD = 10cm @ 100m - 1m @ 1000m
Mil-dot - Milliradian dot, 1 Mil-dot = 3.6" at 100yds / 10cm at 100m.

MOA, MRAD & Mil-Dot are all measurements of angle, therefore they increase with range, and in SFP a Mil-Dot will only be "true" at 1 stated mag level.

[Jesim1]

My views on these are well known, for air rifle distances I find little value in a FFP scope, it's different using a full bore rifle at 6oom for dear with a 3-9x40 scope, but for an air rifle zeroed at say 35m, your known holdover/under between 12m and 38m is only about 1cm up/down, which is just too small to me trying to mess around with the tiny ret increments on a FFP scope if zoomed out. So you then just use the FFP scope zoomed in - and therefor waste the point of a FFP scope

Your local to me and I have both types, if you want to drop in for a coffee and a chat then you can try them both out and make up your own mind if they suit you

James