V2--i'm assuming your optic is 1 of the VX-III models. I always get the optics companies catalogs every year since many of them have a tech. spec. pg. that lists the subtensions of their reticles. If it's a VX-III chances r it has the Range Estimating System in it designed for a 16" deer back to brisket. You're supposed to bracket the deer between plex post tips or X-PPT, and then read off the range on the power ring...but there's a better way that will allow u to use it with many different tgt. sizes, and can be used with any reticle in any scope. It's a simple modification of the mil-ranging formula.
Whenever i see a plex reticle now i think of it as sort of like a 3 stadia mil-dot for rangefinding purposes. Here's the mil-ranging formula in it's simplest form (inches to yds.)--
tgt. size (") x range of reticle measurement (usually 100 yds.) / reticle measurement (") / quantity of gap tgt. occupies (decimal equivalent) = range (yds.)
...looks complicated, super simple to apply. If that's the VX-III with RES then chances r the subtension between PPTs is 5.4 inch per 100 yds. Suppose u wanted to range a 15" tgt., and it occupies exactly .5 of the distance between PPTs (PPT to x-hair). Just punch all the variables into the above equation and here's that range--
15 x 100 / 5.4 / 0.5 = 555 yds.
Usually we can get within 3% of lasered distance with most reticles. Try it sometime it'll blow your mind just how well it works on hard tgts. (steel, etc.).
Whenever i see a plex reticle now i think of it as sort of like a 3 stadia mil-dot for rangefinding purposes. Here's the mil-ranging formula in it's simplest form (inches to yds.)--
tgt. size (") x range of reticle measurement (usually 100 yds.) / reticle measurement (") / quantity of gap tgt. occupies (decimal equivalent) = range (yds.)
...looks complicated, super simple to apply. If that's the VX-III with RES then chances r the subtension between PPTs is 5.4 inch per 100 yds. Suppose u wanted to range a 15" tgt., and it occupies exactly .5 of the distance between PPTs (PPT to x-hair). Just punch all the variables into the above equation and here's that range--
15 x 100 / 5.4 / 0.5 = 555 yds.
Usually we can get within 3% of lasered distance with most reticles. Try it sometime it'll blow your mind just how well it works on hard tgts. (steel, etc.).
