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What are the adjustment increments on Anschutz rear sights? If it matters, they are mid 70s vintage.

I am obviously familiar with the American system of minute of angle (or fractions thereof) click values, but not with that the European standard is.

Is it one click = 1 cm/100 meters?

Jose Rossy wrote:What are the adjustment increments on Anschutz rear sights? If it matters, they are mid 70s vintage.

I am obviously familiar with the American system of minute of angle (or fractions thereof) click values, but not with that the European standard is.

Is it one click = 1 cm/100 meters?

I'm not the expert here, but I know that Anschutz offers at least 2 different adjustment increments on current sights.

I was told 5 min and 10 min are the choices, and that it is possible to change one to the other.


Jay V

Jay V wrote:I know that Anschutz offers at least 2 different adjustment increments on current sights.

I was told 5 min and 10 min are the choices, and that it is possible to change one to the other.


Jay V

I'm sorry, but your answer makes no sense. Are you telling me that the smallest change increment in elevation or windage for an Anschutz sight is 5 minutes of angle?

Not even a military rifle has sights that rough.

Old Anshutz sights of the vintage you mention are approximately 1/6 minute per click (or 6 clicks per inch at 100 yds; 12 clicks per inch at 50 yds)

Thanks Paul. That's more like what I expected.

Jose Rossy wrote:

Jay V wrote:I know that Anschutz offers at least 2 different adjustment increments on current sights.

I was told 5 min and 10 min are the choices, and that it is possible to change one to the other.


Jay V

I'm sorry, but your answer makes no sense. Are you telling me that the smallest change increment in elevation or windage for an Anschutz sight is 5 minutes of angle?

Not even a military rifle has sights that rough.

It's possible that I recall the part numbers ending in "5" or "10", in which case it may be 1/5 min and 1/10 min.

Sorry I piped-in without knowing exactly what I was talking about...


Jay

The newer sights have a /10 or /20 after their part number refering to the number of clicks in a full turn.

Did the older sights part numbers have a similar meaning?

TWP wrote:The newer sights have a /10 or /20 after their part number refering to the number of clicks in a full turn.

Did the older sights part numbers have a similar meaning?

Don't know, but I know those on my rifle have 10 clicks per turn. COuld they be 1 mm per click @50 meters?

Anschutz sights are graded in Miliradians, (1 mil is the angle subtended by 1m at 1000m, so 10cm at 100m). Older Anschutz sights had each click worth 1/20 mil, handily this equates near as dammit, to 1/6 moa. These older sights are also called 10 clicks, as each rotation of the turret was 10 clicks. We shooters do come up with great names don't we!

Newer Anschutz sights have 1/40 mil clicks, each turret rotation taking 20 clicks.

10 click sights; 1 click = 2.5mm @ 50m

20 click sights; 1 click = 1.25mm @ 50m

These are of course nominal and will differ depending upon the sight radius.

Tim S

Exeter UK

Tim, thanks a lot for the clarification.

I am very familiar with the miliradian system, as some of my scopes use the mil-dot system for distance and windage estimation.