FFP
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kickinback
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Re: FFP
American driven fuckwittery. A lot of good scopes out there that are made useless by the ffp fad.
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kickinback
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Re: FFP
And yes, I like my tent too.
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Re: FFP
Simply, it is a very good sales pitch. Firstly it came from the deadshit that convinced the US military to step back a hundred years. Then secondly it was diverted to a civilian market for the deep psychologically rooted fantasy of wanting to hit small targets at longer and longer ranges with the view that one day we will all be at war and that these skills will be used to kill the enemy. Whatever that means.
The reality is that without the training these scopes are more likely to result in misses and missed opportunity. By the time the range was calculated using the reticle in some of these scopes, the shot was already a memory with someone skilled with a GPS or range finder, or dare i say it, a dinosaur like me skilled in the use of that forgotten art of using a map.
The object of all military is to remove human error. So why has human error been re-introduced? In a perfect world FFP scopes or a SFP scope and ranging reticle are maybe accurate to within 5%. Outside of that perfect world its not even close.
Picture this scenario in open terrain. One ranging target is 1.6 meters tall. The other is 1.9 meters tall. Both are at the exact same range but you have no way of knowing the two heights i just gave you. The mirage is boiling away at an easy MOA. Or for the educated, about 0.34 Mils. The subtension of both ranging targets calculates a range to both targets. They differ immensely but they are standing at the same range sharing a latte. You have no way of knowing the exact height of either ranging target as there is nothing else around that is of a known height or length, other than that one of the targets has a foot long schlong. One target is Adolf, the other is Osama. Without a datum, or a visual of that schlong fully erect, a FFP scope or even SFP scope with any reticle is fucking useless. But with a GPS, a range finder or a coffee stained moth eaten map it can be ranged for you in seconds.
Like i have said a million times, function over fashion.
The reality is that without the training these scopes are more likely to result in misses and missed opportunity. By the time the range was calculated using the reticle in some of these scopes, the shot was already a memory with someone skilled with a GPS or range finder, or dare i say it, a dinosaur like me skilled in the use of that forgotten art of using a map.
The object of all military is to remove human error. So why has human error been re-introduced? In a perfect world FFP scopes or a SFP scope and ranging reticle are maybe accurate to within 5%. Outside of that perfect world its not even close.
Picture this scenario in open terrain. One ranging target is 1.6 meters tall. The other is 1.9 meters tall. Both are at the exact same range but you have no way of knowing the two heights i just gave you. The mirage is boiling away at an easy MOA. Or for the educated, about 0.34 Mils. The subtension of both ranging targets calculates a range to both targets. They differ immensely but they are standing at the same range sharing a latte. You have no way of knowing the exact height of either ranging target as there is nothing else around that is of a known height or length, other than that one of the targets has a foot long schlong. One target is Adolf, the other is Osama. Without a datum, or a visual of that schlong fully erect, a FFP scope or even SFP scope with any reticle is fucking useless. But with a GPS, a range finder or a coffee stained moth eaten map it can be ranged for you in seconds.
Like i have said a million times, function over fashion.
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kickinback
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Re: FFP
FFP= Fashion Faux Pas
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