Understanding Mils (Milliradians) | Long-Range Rifle Shooting with Ryan Cleckner
NSSF's Ryan Cleckner explains the measurement term "milliradian" (mil) and how to use a mil-dot scope to measure the distance to your target at the range and in the field.
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I'm watching this 11 years later, in 2022 and I'm loving it. Really great explanation with nice examples!
get his book, long range shooting handbook. best $25 buck you can spend.
@@bokchow2594 Thanks for the tip 👍🙂
Very refreshing, a person on youtube who knows what he is talking about. A rare commodity. Thanks for your efforts.
LOL! You wouldn't be insulting all of the KZhead "Experts", would you? 😉 There's a lot of them... You're outnumbered... Soooo... Be careful..!
I love this guy. He makes this confusing bullshit so simple and easy to understand. Please keep these coming!
Great job Ryan!
Thanks. Informative and understandable!
just buy a scope witht a lazer :)
he's actually making it more confusing and mixing up mils and moa.
@@ipanzerschrecku4732 not really. range with mils or moa and if you need to convert. 1mil~3.5moa = 3.5moa~1mil
Are we just going to ignore that perfect circle he drew?
No joke!!!
@@1lostinspace wrong
@@1lostinspace arent doctors supposed to be smart? 😂
@@esolo114 You guys are arguing basic math that is taught through every sniper school 1 mrad is 3.438” that’s a fact you idiots look it up
@@1lostinspace No dumbshit, nobody is arguing what an MRAD is. Seeing as how you have reading comprehension issues let me explain. You said his calculations are off. He said he is rounding to simplify his calculations, and he even acknowledges this. Do you know what rounding a number is? Because that's grade school math. Go back to elementary school doc.
Thank you Ryan for making all these awesome videos... you're a great teacher and your videos helped me so much I can't even begin to describe it.
Amazing series of video, I have always attempted to pick up some of this knowledge in passing from those who have attended sniper school, this video really helped! Thanks for you post
Using my Khales ZF95 10x42 millradian scope, I walked our valley and checked known target heights and ranges, then noted my mils for each target and wrote these in my data book. I wanted to do this exercise to see how your formula worked, so when I got back home i ran the numbers through my calculator and using your inches x 27.77 divided by mils calculated each target and I can see just how accurate this formula is as each target converted to yards and all were correct. I will now have this this formula written down in my data book and will use it from now on. I watch a number of videos on KZhead and whilst many leave me in despair for lack of information, your video did exactly what it said on the tin.
Pretty cool to hear. I heard in school that you can only use multiplication when angles are small relative to distance, which we have here no doubt. But still thanks for the confirmation that it works.
Good luck with your data book when you're out in the field and it's raining and your fingers are frozen.
this is amazing . everything right on, i wrote this down and with out any prior scope training went out and zero my scope and calculated distances and figured out how to raise and lower the scope to hit dead on
This series is great. Ryan is great. Thanks for posting.
Amazing amount of knowledge stored in that man's head! Good job 'splainin' it too... Thank you Ryan!!!
This series of videos is the most informative that I have ever watched, period. Thank you for taking the time to explain this in Lehman's terms. This info is going to be extremely helpful for coyote hunting this year :)
Ryan you are a GREAT teacher! Thank you for making this simple concise and easy!
Second time I watched this video and I picked up even more pointers. Great job NSSF and Ryan!
Ryan, thanks again for another well explained, informative video! You make the difficult easier to understand. Thank you
Thanks for making this so simple. I understand a lot more now about ranging with mils.
The explanation of the relationship of mils and MOA helped me understand so much.
Watched this ages ago - this reaffirmed my understanding and Ryams demonstrations are well thought out - he is an excellent orator and presenter. Well done.
Ryan, you do such a great job of explaining this subject. I needed this simple break down years ago when down range.
I absolutely love this video. Incredible explanation of MRAD. Exactly what I needed!! Thank you!
Hands down the best video on the subject on the internet! Outstanding.
When I first started to get into this I would get so pissed off I would say the hell with it, then I'd go back to figure it out again and I would think to my self that I stayed away just long enough to forget why I left the first time and then you came along and it all started to make sense. Mr Cleckner your a genius and a special kind of instructor. Thanks so much for making my love of this sport so much more enjoyable. I can't thank you enough. I grew up using a M14 when I was just 17 years old I joined the Marines and as long as we could shoot out to 500 yards and become a sharpshooter it was all we could ask for. Now I looking down range to 1000 yards and I even suprise myself sometimes.
EXCELLENT Series! Please keep Ryan Cleckner sharing his knowledge in his great, easy-to-understand way! I love these videos. Many thanks, Rob
videos like this are the reason why KZhead is awesome! thank you for sharing your experience!
Thanks Ryan, Making this Long range shooting video for this dummie. You are clear and concise with your explanations. You are the first in 4 years to be able to brighten this dim light on proper target acquisition with a scope using MOA and MILS. SUBSCRIBED!
Absolutely superb. I’m just doing my licence in the UK and this has dispelled some of the ‘voodoo’ of mils and MOA. Thanks!
Thank you for taking the voodoo out of range estimation with mil dots. I got 8 pages of notes from your video and plan to implement them soon. Great work, really simple explanations, and very good quality video and instruction from Ryan Cleckner. The most informative 21 minutes I've had in a long time, Sir. Thanks again!
Thank you! I've been putting off learning this stuff because it can get pretty confusing. Nice to have a real authority break it down for a layman.
Outstanding video. So many videos out there that explain how to use mil dots are hard to understand, but you made this really easy to understand the equations and how you got the numbers in the equations. Thanks for the hard work.
Another brilliant vid...and well explained! Looking forward to the windage one as well. Thanks for sharing!
I watched both the MOA video and this one...outstanding! It made everything about which I was confused simple , easy to understand and just plain logical. PS...Thank you for your service, Sir.
Watching this guy explain math makes me understand it. Wish my math teachers in school could of made math this fun and easy to understand.
Isn't it funny that someone that makes a video for youtube does the job of explaining far better than someone you're in person and can even ask questions directly to?
@@Zegger r
Military instructors make sure you learn because it can equate to life on the battlefield, majority of teachers at school don’t give a damn if you pass or not.
because math teachers dont teach you how to solve math problems they teach you how to pass math tests sadly
Passion can make you a better student too
Ryan Cleckner is a rare find and a true Gem. Simple and easy to follow along. Unlike some on KZhead that just ramble on and on, as self professed experts. Many of which leave you scratching your head asking WHAT? True pro thank you. CWO retired USCG
Well presented, easy to understand and very informative. Thank you.
This information will help me out greatly. I've always went on gut instinct, experience, and good old Kentucky windage. Rarely have I ever missed out to 600 yards. With this tutorial I am confident my skills will be ever keener.
The best and easiest to understand sighting vid I have seen yet. Thanks!
Just getting started. Thank you for the lesson. You have really good teaching skills. Look forward to more of your videos.
This was my first saved "favorites" videos 8 years ago and I keep going back to this and his MOA video to brush up when I havent shot for a while. Please dont ever delete these!
Download it to your device. Put ss before the y in the address bar of the video you're watching. Like this www.sskzhead.info/sun/hpl6d9eAinupiac/bejne.html Then look for it in small print and choose "download in browser." It's free. Choose the size you want MP4 740 or MP4 360. It will open a new window playing the video. Click the dots and choose download.
Terrific video; a family member just purchased a 3x15 scope for the first time and I was thinking about mil dots, ranging, etc. This was an enjoyable exercise. Thanks for the time it took to make it.
He makes it a lot easier to understand than some other video's I've seen
Excellent presentations and explanations!
Excellent information and very helpful. Very well explained also. Have subscribed and liked, thank you for putting in the effort! Cheers.
Great video. One of the most concise explanations I have heard.
This is by far the best informational video for explaining how to range find using a mil dot scope
as before a learned more in the first minutes than I did with all other videos combined. this is now my go to channel for questions. thank you sir
I would love to spend a day or two on the range with this guy , I could learn a lot from this guy
Thumbs up after two minutes! Thanks for this video. Great information, well explained.
wow, I would take this guy's class in a second. excellent instructor. Easy to listen to and follow. Thank you for sharing.
Ryan is brilliant and his teaching style is wonderful. Fantastic instructor
Brilliant information. Looking forward to the wind calculation video. Keep them coming.
this was extraordinarily helpful thank u so much!
Good job, Ryan, I've seen this particular video at least 6 times and I learn something everytime. Thank you NSSF and Ryan!
Jim Fleming Thanks, Jim.
Prob one of the best explanations Ive ever heard👏💯
Thanks man👍 I've always wanted to know how to use mildots, and you just made this super easy for a simple mind like mine to understand! Great video.
Excellent Video, Many Thanks. Look forward to more done by Ryan
Very informative. The best explanation I've seen.
That is pure gold you are giving out. Great video.
Pure pure gold
[Target Size in Centimeters ÷ Image Size Measured in Mils in Reticle x 10 = Distance in Meters] is a great formula for fellow euros out there using the metric system. Example: 180cm(average human male height) / 2(mils that is seen in scope) x 10 = 900 meters. If you want to make it complicated, here's a few more formulas for inches/yards: Target Size in Inches ÷ Image Size Measured in Mils in Reticle x 27.77 = Distance in Yards Target Size in Inches ÷ Image Size Measured in Mils in Reticle x 25.4 = Distance in Meters Target Size in Centimeters ÷ Image Size Measured in Mils in Reticle x 10.93 = Distance in Yards
+pialiamail oh thank you ! Ive been trying to get my head round these exact calculations these past days !!! :)
Hmmmm... jagar du människor ofta? 😅
Pia Nordquist Pia Thanks for making me feel dumber than I already am,there’s no way in the world I could do something with that?maybe someone else can thanks for trying
Kära Pia. Mannen har ingen kunskap i matematik. Han härmar något han inte förstår.
@@dannycoker6439 What she is saying is that the calculations will all get much easier if you learn to estimate distances/sizes in metric instead of imperial. Any time you hear or say inches, feet, yards, furlongs, chains, or rods something is dead wrong - do it over in metric. You'll thank yourself. Even our po-dunk shooting range here in the sticks is measured out in meters, no yard markers anywhere - don't convert that, use it.
This is by far the clearest I’ve ever heard this explained. He explains this to where it makes absolute sense and anyone could understand it. Let’s go shoot!
Great Video!! Thanks for the instruction!! Half of these calculations you can get rid of however if you just use a scope that has target knobs that match the reticle.. Mil Reticle/Mil Knobs... Moa Reticle/Moa knobs.. That will alleviate all the conversions. Mil/Mil for the win! Keep it up NSSF!
Your videos are excellent. Thanks for dumbing it down.
imperial is more precise than metric though.. I don't use metric even though in Canada we all do
this really helped thx a lot man! keep up da good work!
I have to thanks Ryan Cleckner for his outstanding teaching style!
Bar far the best video I have seen explaining the milradian system. Great info Ryan! I will definitely watch the associated videos.
Excellent Explanation👍👍👍 Loved it. Keep It Up. Thanks & Kind Regards
Fantastic videos, thank you for making this easier to understand.
Best video explaining the MoA & Mil! Big thank you!
I learned a lot with this video. It's well put together, and Ryan does a great job breaking things down.
Your videos have been very educational for me. I'm new to the long range shooting game, I enjoy shooting and I no longer can play sports so I'm picking this up. I've watched all your videos and have learned a lot, I look forward to trying the techniques this spring. Also, thank you for your service.
Fascinating, and well explained. Thanks ;-)
i never thought anyone can explain math so clearly like you do. you're amazing at this.
The best explanation for mil and ranging.
Ryan is a very professional instructor. Great job.
This is a fantastically clear way of explaining this! Thanks.
I've seen and read dozens of videos and articles on MRAD/mil utilization for range calculation and how to translate sight picture into meaningful numbers, and this is by leaps and bounds the best I've seen. I walked away with the simple phrase "known times 1000 over observed = range"..."known" being the known (or best-guessed) target height, and "observed" being the Mil-height observed in the sight picture. Awesome job of explaining a seemingly complicated concept. Thanks for the insight and very practical examples!
Thank you for your service brother
Waiting for the new book…!!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!👍🏻
Thank you for the knowledge
Very enjoyable video that broke it down simply and made it easy to understand. Very very good instruction.
Perfect, clear and appreciative. Thank you for your service (sincerely).
This was extremely helpful. You did a great job making a very complex subject seem very approachable
Such a great explanation !!!👍👍👍
Excellent training piece. Thank you very much.
This was VERY clear and palatable.
This gentleman is very knowledgeable and basic in his language so anyone can understand ! It wonderful to find people trying to help and not just show off.
Excellent review of the Mil Dot!! Thanks!!
I never thought trigonometry was going to pay of in my personal life!
Yeah, huh. I told my math teacher “I’ll NEVER use this shit in real life”. Now, I’m a medic and have do math for my drip rates and drug dose conversions, and being a shooter, and always trying to improve, I need it apparently. Sorry Mr Stevens. That’s as close as you get to a formal apology 🤓😁
Maybe if they had taught it in this context back then, we would've cared more! Lol
Triggernometry... Haha
@@ItchesIt i see what you did there
My math teacher was right and that bothers me on a personal level
I’ve watched this multiple times. A+
Wow this was incredibly well-presented!
This and the moa videos is what I have been looking for... thank you very much sir. And I have your book and reading through it as well.
New long range shooter here, thanks for the simple explanations. Learning MOA and MIL from your videos. I'm working with a Stagg Arms Stagg15 chambered in .224 Valkyrie and shooting Federal 90 gr sierra match king with a Vortex optics 6-24x50 Diamondback Tactical First focal plain optic set up for MOA with 1/4 MOA adjustments.
Great videos straight to the point no BS or rambling!!
Great instructor Ryan. Thank you!
Really well done video. Thank you!
These vids are fantastic. Lots of great tips to be acquired.
Thanks for these videos
Ryan, thanks for the videos. You offer an expensive lesson for free through this medium. Keep up the good work.
That was awesome ! Thanks again
I've learned so much from Ryan's book and videos. He's the reason I chose MRAD for scope training. Great teacher. I'd definitely pay for the chance to attend a class with him.
Thanks for that great info. You make it all seem very easy
Agreed ! 3.5 minutes to a mil in a practical sense . A long time ago a Mark 4 scope with moa dials and mil dot reticle taught Me to to this . thanks Sir .