My issue is on principle, but I'll will concede math is easy for me. I will also argue you don't need to be good with math to use a mil dot or MOA scope either. Math will certainly help speed things up but isn't really required.I would ditch the BDC if I could math it easier, if I had been doing it awhile, if I wasn't just starting out.
Vortex technically calls this a BDC too, are you against the BDC in principle, or just the circles? This is Vortex's version of the BDC:
Technically, the Prostaff only comes in BDC, or nikoplex, but that has nothing to gauge elevation, nothing to hold on.
Ok what I find wrong with the BDC system, is that the reticle is basically a calibrated scale. Calibrated scales are very useful for their designed system. They are fast and easy. The problem inherently lies in the what is the system that the reticle is calibrated to. There is no way to duplicate the same system that the scope was made for. If you change caliber, barrel length, make/model, barrel profile, ammo type, ammo weight, powder charge all will change system you are trying to measure. I'm neglecting atmospheric conditions because unless your doing real long range it shouldn't be too much of a factor. Now the app they have developed tries to remedy that by changing what yardage each hash represents. That's great and all but are you going to put your target 137yds(made up number for discussion) to test to see if your fist hash is on the mark? Some people won't have a problem with that, me I think it's silly to say the least.
Now let's say you decide on a mildot scope. You take it to the range and zero it at 100 yds with cheap ball ammo. Now you take out the ammo you want to test out. Because your rifle is a 308 lets say you choose a 150gr load, 165gr, and 178gr to see what your rifle likes. You shoot each ammo to see which one groups better neglecting POI(point of impact). You choose which ever ammo groups best, for discussion sake lets say the 150gr was the best. Now you can calibrate your scope to your particular system. You adjust your scope turrets so you 150gr ammo hits dead center at 100 yds. Most scopes allow you now adjust the scales on the turrets to zero on your scope, so that you can always go back to your baseline. Now if you want to do math you can to get a rough guess at where you will hit at all yards, but isn't required. Now you can put your target out to a known distance, lets say 200 yds. Because you don't like math don't do it, just pull the trigger and see where you hit. Let's say you hit 6" low, well damn you don't want to do math so you click your turret up 6" clicks and try again. Now you shoot and you hit 3" low, ok well you came up half way so lets do another 6 clicks. Now your on at 200 yds also so you write down home many clicks at 200yds. Now you know whenever you take the rifle and ammo and try to hit a target your going to be really close to the bullseye at 100yds or 200yds by just having the turret at zero or 12 clicks. There is more you can do with the dots in the reticle and I can add that but I want to make sure you understand the basics first.
I hope this made sense and seemed easy, because it really is. If you have and ammo picked out you want to use you can justify it out to 400 yds in a day pretty easily and you will have all the data you need to hunt with from one days worth of work.
