The numbers
- Manufacturer
- Schmidt & Bender
- Reticle
- P4FL
- Focal plane
- first focal plane
- Units
- MRAD
- Magnification
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In the first focal plane the subtensions hold true at every magnification, so a hold is a hold wherever the zoom ring sits.
Reticle library · Schmidt & Bender
Schmidt & Bender P4FL
Drawn to scale from Schmidt & Bender’s own specification sheet, and checked mark by mark by a person. This is the same geometry Harson Ballistics draws your holdover on.
Framed to about 12 MRAD — the part of the reticle you aim with. This reticle carries marks out to 38.27 MRAD; the rest sits beyond the edge of this drawing.
Drawn from Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co. KG’s published specification.
Scopes with this reticle
- PM II 4-16x42
- PM II 4-16x50
Other Schmidt & Bender reticles
Subtensions
First focal plane, mrad, from S&B's dimensioned reticle data sheet for this scope (page 2 drawing + lettered coverage table, page 3 views of the field at lowest and highest magnification). Illuminated centre cross, then clear glass to the 1 mrad mark. Windage and upper stadia: 0.4 mrad marks every mrad, 0.2 mrad marks at the half, and from 4.2 to 4.8 a 0.2 mrad fine scale of one-sided 0.1 mrad marks above the horizontal line and right of the vertical. Heavy 0.4 mrad posts with tips 10 mrad apart. Lower stadia marked every 0.5 mrad. Ranging: a 16 mrad bar and four 3 mrad bars above it bracketing a 50 cm target at 500/400/300/200 m. Sheet letters (cm/100 m / 10 = mrad): A 10 post opening, B 0.4 post, C 0.035 line, D 1 and E 0.5 mark spacing, F 0.2, G 5 to the first wide mark, N 10 to the long bar, P 16 long bar, H/K/L/M ranging. One sheet covers both objectives. Not lettered on this sheet, so measured from the vector drawing: red cross 1.72 across (0.035 line), full mark 0.4, wide mark 0.8, fine 0.1, bars 0.1. Posts and the lower stadia run to the edge of the field in the lowest-magnification view (38.27 mrad).
How this one was checked
Verified 8 Oct 2026 against Schmidt-Bender-Datasheet-P4FL-FFP-4-16x42_50-PMII.pdf (P4FL.zip), pages 2 and 3. Vector drawing, measured on FILL geometry only (outline strokes dropped, dimension arrows excluded). The record was rasterised the way the app draws it and XOR-compared with page 2 and with page 3's lowest-magnification view; page 2 centre from the red cross (311.85, 372.035), scale from A: post tips 177.97 pt apart -> 17.797 pt/mrad; B post 0.40, C line 0.035, D/E spacing 1/0.5, F 0.2, G wide mark at 5.02, N long bar 10.02, P 16.01, ranging 1.00/1.25/1.67/2.50 above the long bar. Like the 3-12x50 sheet it places marks by their outer edge (about +0.02 mrad); at 3 px tolerance (148 px/mrad) nothing else disagrees inside the page-2 frame. Not lettered, measured: red cross 1.72, full mark 0.40, wide mark 0.80, fine 0.10. Page 3 (scale refined on P to 3.930 pt/mrad): no disagreement, field edge 38.27, last full mark -38, last half -37.5, wide marks every 5 to -35. Fine scale one-sided; no numerals.
Use it on your own rifle
Harson Ballistics draws this reticle at your magnification with your holdover marked on it, from your rifle, load and conditions. Works with no signal and no account.
Subtensions are published by the manufacturer and reproduced here for reference. Confirm your own dope on a range before you rely on any of it. Harson.ai is not affiliated with Schmidt & Bender.