According to chairgun it's about 1.7 mils per dot for the 'standard' mildot reticle which is about what I am seeing. A shame there are so few fixed power scopes with mildot in this price range and I doubt any have an accurate reticle. I guess I should save for the SWFA....
Regardless of magnification a mildot is 1 yrd tall at 1000 yrds and 3.6 inches at 100 yrds. The hawke works out to 6 inches at 100 yrds. After thinking about it for a while I think 6 inches per dot is going to be easier to do mental math with @ 100 to 150 yrds than 3.6 so I don't think it will be an issue... plus it gives me 30 inches of rise to work with.
nmair - - - since we both own that Hawke scope, it would probably be a good idea for us to call/contact Hawke to see what the mildot set up is on it. (IMO its better for more than one to call since sometimes different people in the same company give you different answers.)I just laser ranged a steel fence post out at 98 yards. It shows about 5 'mildots' height for the post (equivalent to 18") while the post is at least double that, probably more.On this Hawke 4x fixed power scope, the spacing between the center of one dot and the center of the next, is not equal to 3.6" at 100 yards at 4x. I'll go out later and measure the fence post. Many mildot tac scopes that I've run across range at 10x or at the highest magnification if less than a 10 power scope.