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Vortex Dead-Hold BDC

Drawn to scale from Vortex’s own specification sheet, and checked mark by mark by a person. This is the same geometry Harson Ballistics draws your holdover on.

Vortex Dead-Hold BDC — second focal plane, MOA subtensions

Drawn from Vortex Optics’s published specification.

The numbers

Manufacturer
Vortex
Reticle
Dead-Hold BDC
Focal plane
second focal plane
Units
MOA
Magnification
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In the second focal plane the subtensions are only true at one magnification — check your manual for which, and dial there before you hold.

Subtensions

Official per-scope sheet(s): VTX_VPR-M-03BDC_DEAD-HOLD-BDC_MOA_RS_I_RI_ST.pdf (3.5-10x50). Published, MOA at the highest magnification: windage hashes 2 MOA apart to 6, holdover hashes at 1.5 / 4.5 / 7.5 below centre, side and top posts start at 8, bottom post at 11, hash length 1.0, line 0.24, post 0.75. Drawn values, not published: the holdover hashes are the same length as the windage hashes, every hash is as thick as the line, and each post meets the line along a 45-degree shoulder 0.255 long. Posts drawn to 40 MOA. This per-scope sheet supersedes the generic Dead-Hold manual (VTX_M-00240-1) for these scopes: it publishes a hash length, line and post per scope that the manual does not. Class A/B/C yardage mappings in the manual are ballistic suggestions, not geometry. Not the Dead-Hold 2A BDC.

How this one was checked

Verified 8 Oct 2026 against specs/vortex/VTX_VPR-M-03BDC_DEAD-HOLD-BDC_MOA_RS_I_RI_ST.pdf (3.5-10x50), page 1. Text removed, dark ink rasterised at 0.04 pt and profiled along all four arms from the ring centre. Scale 15.54 pt/MOA, fitted to the windage hash CENTRES at 2 / 4 / 6 (the published 2 MOA spacing). Every other callout then lands: hash 0.998, line 0.239, post 0.748, side post 8.001, bottom post 11.005; holdover hashes centred at 1.50 / 4.50 / 7.50, each within 0.01. All marks centred on the line (no one-sided marks; offsets under 0.005). Post shoulders read from the ON-curve vertices: 45 degrees, 0.255 MOA run, on all four posts. The sheet's ring is 11.6 MOA in radius and clips the posts - it is a frame, not the field.

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 Vortex.