BDC Scopes and PCP?

[IRBent]

Have any of you ever used a scope with a BDC reticle and been able to related your trajectory with the BDC markings inside the scope in a useful way? I can't help but think you'd just have to be lucky to find the right projectile and speed to make use of more than maybe 2 dots. Opinions and experience needed.

 

[Struckat]

Those gimmicks are what they are. Whatever the marks are on a scope, you need to shoot and see how they correlate with what you are shooting.
Learn the holdovers for various ranges.

Now for clickers, what the marks represent matters, but that’s a different conversation.

 

[Sqwirl57]

Don't even use them on firearms. A MIL or MOA reticle does the same basic thing and more.

 

[Ezana4CE]

I can’t stand that reticle.

 

[Chuck-in-Ohio]

I am usually able to use the first two marks on a Vortex Deadhold BDC reticle, but that is it.
Such reticles are usually geared to a certain firearm cartridge.
As stated above, a standard MOA or MIL graduated reticle is much more useful.

 

[c_m_shooter]

They will work. You just need to go out and shoot to see what distances they line up at. Not as convenient as mil and moa that you can print a range card from chairgun. One of the best hunter class field target shooters I've met still uses a simple duplex reticle and finds the holdovers the old fashioned way.