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Author Topic: MOA? Krustyklimber prefers the bunny hugger pronunciation: ky o tee Member # 72 posted February 02, 2003 06:45 PM                    Much like Leonards "What do you call 'em" thread what else does MOA stand for to you? I like Middle Of Animal. Or if I'm shootin' handguns I say I can't shoot My Own Ass. The little woman says it's Men Often Annoy. Let's hear yours. Jeff -------------------- Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that! Posts: 1912 | From: Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted February 02, 2003 07:56 PM                       I don't have one; but I am quite familiar with "MOC".....minute of coyote. Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32386 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Redrider Knows what it's all about Member # 79 posted February 03, 2003 09:14 AM                    I can think of a few: miss only animals = buck fever minute of ant = tackdriver miss on akayshun = me middle of Alabama = not a tackdriver i aint as smart as i thunk i r [ February 03, 2003, 09:15 AM: Message edited by: Redrider ] Posts: 27 | From: seattle | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Tusero PAKMAN Member # 111 posted February 23, 2003 12:01 AM                       Hi Ya'll! MOA means Minute Of Angle, and it is the term used to describe the clicks on a scope for adjustment for windage and elevation. I am a machinist by trade and it comes from the division of an angle. IE: there are 360 degrees in a circle. Each degree is divided by 60 minutes, hence minute of angle. Hope this helps with the explanation? But it could also mean "My Old Ass" aas I am an "old fart!" Posts: 2 | From: Albuquerque, NM, USA | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged varmit hunter Knows what it's all about Member # 37 posted February 23, 2003 02:17 PM                    Howdy Tusero. Glad to see another machinist on board. -------------------- Make them pay for the wind. Posts: 932 | From: Orange,TX | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Krustyklimber prefers the bunny hugger pronunciation: ky o tee Member # 72 posted February 23, 2003 04:18 PM                    Welcome Tusero! Thanks for the explaination, but I was joking! hahaha I was a chinist too but now I are not. Stupid CNCs! Stupid robots! Stupid NAFTA! But I digress... Actually I got to thinking and thought I'd read where, and how, they decided to divide the world into 360° (I asked a jr high school science teacher if they had to add 120° when Colombus discorvered America?!? lol), so I hit Google and did a search, here's some of the stuff I found. The use of degrees to measure angles harks back to the Babylonians, whose sexagesimal* number system was based on the number 60. 360° likely arises from the Babylonian year, which was composed of 360 days (12 months of 30 days each). The degree is further divided into 60 arc minutes, and an arc minute into 60 arc seconds. The transit and theodolite are used by the surveyor* to measure both horizontal and vertical angles. While the purpose of the two is similar, as a general rule a theodolite is more accurate than a transit. However, there is no specific rule as to when one definition ends and the other begins. Generally, these instruments have a minimum accuracy of one minute of angle and some very precise theodolites will measure angles to an accuracy of one-tenth of a second of angle. To put these accuracies into perspective, at a distance of one mile, one minute of angle covers about 1.5 feet. At a distance of one mile, one-tenth of a second of angle covers about 0.003 feet. This aiming technology was first applied to cannons and then to rifle scopes, when the accuracy of Vernier sights were surpassed by sturdy enough optics to be used on rifles. *notes *Sexagesimal: The base-60 notational system for representing real numbers. A base-60 number system was used by the Babylonians and is preserved in the modern measurement of time (hours, minutes, and seconds) and angles. *surveyor In this context the surveyor is a military term for the guy who helped to aim a cannon, or mortar fire. I hope this has further enlightened us on where MOA comes from... Now make up some more jokes guys! Mmmm old ammuntion = Leonards recent problem My ol'gun's accuracy = sellers remorse Jeff [ February 23, 2003, 04:34 PM: Message edited by: Krustyklimber ] -------------------- Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that! Posts: 1912 | From: Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged

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