GRATICULE

Various material on Graticule design. This is all specifically aimed at F class Shooting.

1/ GRATICULE PROGRAM

In the beginning, I started making Complex Graticules via Lithography, Etching and Filling. Before that I had made many simple crosses - some with dots. The simple X is very good if that is what you want and making one is described on this site from fibres which is quite doable. GRATICULE.EXE is downloadable as a Zipped file.- see below. Unzip. place in a Directory under Documents and run it. No installation is needed. The program allows one to create many weird and wonderful possible Graticule Patterns. Unfortunately, the output is a negative. This was intended to be displayed on a second large screen and used to expose Litho Film which explains the inverted Black and White. Once upon a time, one could purchase Litho Emulsions of exceptional resolution in Plate form - ie on a glass base. These now seem unobtainable. The whole system was intended to produce Graticules for experimental use under actual shooting conditions on a rifle range. Later I moved on to a Program that produced G codes for a dedicated Scribing Machine which could also add in lettering as well because I was not very satisfied by the results I was achieving.

This may not be of much use - but it could help people fill in time - almost like a different type of computer game. The program is a bit rough around the edges but quite usable. Just remember that I abandoned this approach and moved to another method of producing Graticules.

2/ SUMMARY OF DESIRABLE FEATURES

3/ FINAL CHOICE