Lee Dot Saves the Day!

[fishnbob]

With my eyes getting worse every day, I finally got to where I couldn't hardly see the FINE crosshair in my old Weaver KT16. So I sent it off to T.K.Lee co. and got a
1/4 moa dot installed. Got it back yesterday, put it back on my Rem. 700 BDL in 22-250 cal. today and zeroed her in this afternoon. AWESOME is the word. What a job! Several shots cut the same hole. I can see great, except when the ol' floater drifts back across my right eye, dang it! Wonder if they have any remedy for that? Mighta known it would have to be in my shooting eye.:Fire:

[Freightman]

Remedy for the floater may be a session with a lazier, got where everything was fuzzy on my right eye, I had the lens replaced some years ago but it was impossible to see the sights. So I went back to the Dr that fixed it in the first place, he looked then took me into his office and had me look at a dot to the left, center and right each time a little clicking and I could see instantly. The treatment its self took less than a minute.

[rtracy2001]

I hate you all!!! When I wen't to the doctor (and a couple specialists) with blurry vision in my right eye, all they said was "buy a white cane" so now I am learning to shoot left handed... It ain't easy.

How much did the crosshair mod run you, if you don't mind me asking.

[patsher]

Hey guys -- what does "moa dot" mean? For that matter, what does "MOA" mean?

thanks for your patience with newby questions!

Pat

[swamp]

It stands for minute of angle. It is 1 inch at 100 yds, 2 at 200, etc.

[rtracy2001]

Hey guys -- what does "moa dot" mean? For that matter, what does "MOA" mean?


MOA = Minute Of Angle

I'm no expert, but as I understand it (and if I am wrong, please chime in) it is like this. . .

We know there are 360 degrees in a full circle. Each degree is subdivided into minutes and seconds, so if we wanted an angle of say 4.5 degrees, we could write that 4 degrees 30 minutes. It just so happens that if we stand at a fixed point (the center of our circle) and draw an immaginary line through that point and out into space, then we draw another line out into space such that it intersects the first line at our immaginary center point, and the angle between the two lines is one minute of one degree, then the angular distance between those lines is one MOA.

IIRC if we are shooting from a fixed point (say a bench) at 100 yards, 1 MOA (the distance between our two lines) is equal to about 1", so a 1 MOA dot in a scope covers a 1" circle at 100 yards. If we can get say 5 shots inside a 1" circle at 100 yards we have a 1 MOA 5 shot group etc. It is a measure of the spread of a pattern in space.

You do need to be careful because MOA is often missused. Some people say a sub MOA group is a group smaller than 1" at any range when actually the size of a 1 MOA group gets larger as the range increases. So a 1" group at 200 yards is much less than 1 MOA (closer to 1/2 MOA IIRC). On the same note a 1 MOA group at 1000 yards is pretty big.

Hope I didn't confuse anybody.