What is the difference? Does it mean that it magnifies? I am looking at an Aimpoint Comp M/XD and it says 3MOA. I am not sure what the "3MOA" stands for. Please help a red-dot scope newbie out. Thanks!!!
Posted: 12/24/2001 11:15:28 AM EDT
[#1]
It tells you how big the dot appears to be on target. 3 MOA covers about 3 inches at 100 yards, 4 MOA 4 inches at 100 yards. 3 MOA would be about .3 inches at ten yards and 1.5 inches at 50 yards. Watch-Six
Posted: 12/24/2001 11:15:36 AM EDT
[#2]
3 MOA means that dot is three inches wide at 100 yards. it covers 3" of your target at that distance. extrapolated, means 6" of coverage at 200...etc....
Posted: 12/24/2001 11:18:25 AM EDT
[#3]
3 MOA is the size of the dot. One MOA being appx. 1" at 100 yards, a 3 MOA dot will cover 3" at 100 yards, 6" at 200 yards, 1.5" at 50 yards, etc.
Posted: 12/24/2001 1:48:54 PM EDT
[#4]
There was a thread a little while back in the optics section kinda along this lines. Someone had been having a problem with the 3moa Aimpoint. Come to find out, it was his Stigmatism in his eyes that caused the dot to become oval. He got a 4 MOA model and has no problem. He had found out from Aimpoint that this is kinda why the went to a 4 MOA model.