At the Trafalgar meeting last weekend I was lucky enough to sell a L42A1 to a regular customer of mine. During the transaction a chap came up to us & started extolling the use of the grat as a means of estimating range. I know this can be done with some scopes but have not heard this referred to with the No32/L1A1 before. He claimed to be an ex serving sniper, but who knows?!? He was quoting 'facts' like if the target's head represents the same distance as the top of the vertical pointer above the horizontal hair, then that corresponds to a range of X hundred yds/meters; if the torso represents the same distance then this corresponds to y hundred yds/meters. I appreciate a lot of scopes have been through Peter's as well as other scope repairers' hands, but anyway there seems to be quite a variation in this height from scope to scope which would surely render accurate range estimation impossible? Or have I missed something?

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