How do mildots work?

[Guest]

How do you calculate the distance of your target on an as50 or similar quickly and accurately without a rangefinder, or crosshairs. I know that you can calculate the exact distance with the formula;

Standing: 1800 / height in mildots

Crouching: 900 / height in mildots

Prone: 450 / height in mildots

However this takes a few seconds to get out a calculator and do this especially on a moving target or a vehicle where the number is going to change quickly. Does anyone have a much simpler method?

[Psst 0]

make a table, put it near the keyboard, something like this:

0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5...(mili)

Standing 1800 1200 900 720

Crouching 1800 900 600 450 360

Prone 900 450 300 225 180

Edited November 28, 2012 by Psst

[Bludy 324]

or table in real life or you can spot the target near some reference point on the map,like a tree line or a shack/building, knowing that a square on map is 100m and knowing your exact position you can set up a decent firing range, this works really good(personal experience) when you guard a location for more than 2 minutes. then if you are caughtor you do not have time you must trust your belly

[Epic Dragon 0]

Google It.

[Azrail (DayZ) 211]

or...

...use the svd

...like a bouws

B)

[Mandalore (DayZ) 76]

Make a table at Excel or something similar for every 50 meters of distance in all 3 stances and print it/take a pic with your cellphone and keep it nearby.

For instance I did exactly that back when I had a DMR, excel table picture on my cellphone (http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1880/dsc0032rz.jpg)

I have never missed a shot while sniping and I have shot running targets at roughly 700 meters (zombie running *not* towards me or away from me)

[Rage VG 4033]

then if you are caughtor you do not have time you must trust your belly

But I ate Deceit and Lies for breakfast this morning D:

[gray-z@hotmail.co.uk 84]

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Edited November 29, 2012 by G24HAM

[bigdogsco 143]

^^^^^^ Erm........ Spam much?? ^^^^^^^

Pot, kettle? How ironic. Spam as a response to spam. I'm sure one of the moderators will delete the robots account.

[gray-z@hotmail.co.uk 84]

Pot, kettle? How ironic. Spam as a response to spam. I'm sure one of the moderators will delete the robots account.

Haha, true story bud.

Was reading the thread with interest then saw that and thought WTF!!! Couldn't help myself.

Back on topic... do different rifles have different characteristics such as accuracy and ranging?

[bigdogsco 143]

Yeah they do. Eg dmr has two levels of zoom. The mil dots represent different ranges/bullet drop at different zooms. Dayz wiki has more detail.

http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/DMR

[bishopdaenforcer 0]

THis is all good to know. thank you

Edited November 28, 2012 by BishopDaGreat

[Guest]

Make a table at Excel or something similar for every 50 meters of distance in all 3 stances and print it/take a pic with your cellphone and keep it nearby.

For instance I did exactly that back when I had a DMR, excel table picture on my cellphone (http://img651.images...0/dsc0032rz.jpg)

I have never missed a shot while sniping and I have shot running targets at roughly 700 meters (zombie running *not* towards me or away from me)

Thanks for that, although I don't understand why you have Mil dot range there, when the distance is meters has already been calculated? What is mil dot range for?

Yeah they do. Eg dmr has two levels of zoom. The mil dots represent different ranges/bullet drop at different zooms. Dayz wiki has more detail.

http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/DMR

These calculations are for when the sniper rifle is zoomed in, and also doesn't the DMR have a default range at 400? Since it doesn't have zeroing.

Edited November 29, 2012 by Guest

[Mandalore (DayZ) 76]

Thanks for that, although I don't understand why you have Mil dot range there, when the distance is meters has already been calculated? What is mil dot range for?

These calculations are for when the sniper rifle is zoomed in, and also doesn't the DMR have a default range at 400? Since it doesn't have zeroing.

Mil dot range is there to remind me the actual range for every mildot right above the cross, so if I find a guy crouching who is two mildots high for instance I know I have to aim half a mildot lower than the cross. The whole table is there so I don't have to bother calculating at all while tracking a target really.

Edited November 29, 2012 by Mandalore

[bigdogsco 143]

Just to clarify, mildots can be used to calculate range based on tatget height AND to set an aim point on rifles that cannot be zeroed (dmr) once you have calculated range.