When I first started shooting, thinking I knew a whole lot, I liked the fact that MOA had a finer adjustment then mils therefore I’ve done MOA. It just doesn’t matter but I say shoot what your friends shoot. Doesn’t hurt to be Bi lingual.
I’ve been going back and forth on this. I’ve always had MRAD on military style rifles and MOA on hunting style rifles. As of late, I’ve been contemplating sticking to one format. I have a mix of both currently and can figure it out with either but many high end scope companies only offer certain reticle style in one or the other. I’ve been considering S&B, ZCO, or maybe a TT on some custom builds but some are MRAD mostly and FFP and others are MOA and SFP. In most cases I’ve come to actually prefer SFP and just dial… in other cases I don’t mind FFP assuming the reticle is usable at lower powers. If it’s so fine that I can’t make it out then it’s largely is useless to me in situations when I’d like to be on lower powers.
I agree though that familiarization with both is useful though.
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Always been a MOA SFP guy my self. I can see the benefits in both just don’t want to change at this point of my life. Range find dial and shoot! Or just SWAG it and shoot anyway! Lol
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I picked what the scope I was looking at had. For my gun, I wanted a Leupold VX3 with a particular reticle. It came in MOA so that’s what I got. For my daughter’s gun (she’s only 8 years old, but I wanted to buy another gun so I bought her a Vanguard Camilla) I happened across a Backfire talk and heard Jim mention Element Helix Raptr and bought it site unseen. It is in MilRadian, and I’d trade my VX3 for another one of these scopes in a heartbeat. I think this is one of those topics where you look at the features that are important to you and then learn the math (of course I’m a math teacher so I can say that with confidence).