NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Marvin Sebourn
Date: 2003 Mar 11, 19:44 EST
From: Marvin Sebourn
Date: 2003 Mar 11, 19:44 EST
Hello to George and the group, re: Mil.
Mil in this case is a milli-radian, where a radian is 180 degrees/Pi, or a little over 57 degrees. Rather than personally wander around, I recommend theses URL's as starters:
http://www.boomershoot.org/general/mils.htm
http://www.snipercountry.com/mil-moa.html
Besides the unfamiliarity for many people of the use of the mil, there are slightly different mil values at work, as I found out after recently after purchasing a peep-sight alidade on EBAY. (Checking whether the graduations are in standard or military mils) Hope the websites are a step towards clarification; they helped me. But I'm still looking & learning when I have time.
Marvin
Marvin Sebourn
osugeography@aol.com
Mil in this case is a milli-radian, where a radian is 180 degrees/Pi, or a little over 57 degrees. Rather than personally wander around, I recommend theses URL's as starters:
http://www.boomershoot.org/general/mils.htm
http://www.snipercountry.com/mil-moa.html
Besides the unfamiliarity for many people of the use of the mil, there are slightly different mil values at work, as I found out after recently after purchasing a peep-sight alidade on EBAY. (Checking whether the graduations are in standard or military mils) Hope the websites are a step towards clarification; they helped me. But I'm still looking & learning when I have time.
Marvin
Marvin Sebourn
osugeography@aol.com
