What reticle do you prefer?

[johnwoitalla]

Some scopes seem to have reticles that take up almost the entire sight picture. I don't have a clue how they work, or even if they are very useful for anything other than adding bells and whistles in order to sell more scopes. Personally, I prefer a fine duplex with a super small dot and a few tic marks(is that what they are called?) on all four axis-my Meopta Optika 5 has such a reticle. I will take a plain fine duplex over a complicated one any day of the week. I am wondering what reticle you all prefer? Do you prefer ffp or sfp?

 

[6gun]

Some scopes seem to have reticles that take up almost the entire sight picture. I don't have a clue how they work, or even if they are very useful for anything other than adding bells and whistles in order to sell more scopes. Personally, I prefer a fine duplex with a super small dot and a few tic marks(is that what they are called?) on all four axis-my Meopta Optika 5 has such a reticle. I will take a plain fine duplex over a complicated one any day of the week. I am wondering what reticle you all prefer? Do you prefer ffp or sfp?

Some of them you can use to guage windage ranges, use for holdover for long shots. I love this dirty Christmas tree because I've learned to use it. I am also taking shots from 30 yards to 150 so it helps me.

 

[bchannell]

After you use a scope for a while you get a sense of what you like. For me, it's a lighted reticle so I can see in shaded areas. 1/2 mil dots, with numbers for quick holdovers and I really don't need the christmas tree, I can manage the windage well enough. More than that and it's just a cluttered mess.

 

[A.G.R]

Simple duplex , sight in at 1/4 high at 25 yards good to 40 yards with 790 to 850 fps gun. Past 40.
Let me quote the late great Colonel Sanders , “I'm to drunk to taste this chicken”.

 

[Gerry52]

I prefer clean, simple reticles. I'm mostly a holdover/under shooter & don't like a lot of optical stuff getting in my way. I have 2 sfp & 1 ffp on my 3 guns. I can shoot just as well with either.

 

[john8]

My preference is a christmas tree, FFP, Mildot and illuminated for shooting in a low light situation.

 

[jarmstrong]

I am a pester mostly,,, paper punching is secondary, for accuracy testing and just what to shot for fun
so I like sfp and a clean reticle, fewer hash marks the better, major pest zone is only 20 to 35 yds
scopes are just tools, use the one that suits your needs and desires,,, Happy Hunting, or paper punching, or just ringing steel

 

[JimD]

For targets I like a dot reticle and I think it's fine for pesting/hunting. But for pesting, plinking, or hunting I want 6X. Some FFP scopes have reticles so fine they are not readily visible at 6X. SFP solves that but makes holdover using the markings more complex. I don't mind the "Christmas tree" design but i don't really use most of those dots. I don't want a simple crosshair or duplex reticle, I want some hash marks (for holdover).

 

[.20calguy]

Some scopes seem to have reticles that take up almost the entire sight picture. I don't have a clue how they work, or even if they are very useful for anything other than adding bells and whistles in order to sell more scopes. Personally, I prefer a fine duplex with a super small dot and a few tic marks(is that what they are called?) on all four axis-my Meopta Optika 5 has such a reticle. I will take a plain fine duplex over a complicated one any day of the week. I am wondering what reticle you all prefer? Do you prefer ffp or sfp?

Greetings
I have been using FFP, moa. reticles for better than a year now and have become used to them.
Regardless of zoom, my handy dandy measuring stick is right there in my sight picture.
when I take a measurement the turret clicks, four per moa, make exact corrections.

Heres a screen shot from a video with an old iPhone/Sideshot at 75 yards. You can see that the Crazy Eight paddles are exactly 3 moa apart just from a glance.

 

[Sleestak]

I'm not Chris Kyle, a simple BDC reticle is all that I really need.

 

[RossK]

I use fine duplex reticle sfp. To busy a reticle to much brain farting for me, my PCP use is only punching paper and steel targets to 50yds.
I've not owned a ffp in my 50+yrs so don't know what I might be missing out on?

 

[Deerstalker]

Some scopes seem to have reticles that take up almost the entire sight picture. I don't have a clue how they work, or even if they are very useful for anything other than adding bells and whistles in order to sell more scopes. Personally, I prefer a fine duplex with a super small dot and a few tic marks(is that what they are called?) on all four axis-my Meopta Optika 5 has such a reticle. I will take a plain fine duplex over a complicated one any day of the week. I am wondering what reticle you all prefer? Do you prefer ffp or sfp?

This may help.

https://www.rimfirecentral.com/d3/pdf/rfcftp/optics/StandardReticlePatterns2012.pdf

 

[JEFFPPC]

Sfp with a floating dot and not much else.

 

[drb3224]

Simple plex reticle. I get distracted by the Christmas tree reticles and it slows me getting a shot off

FFP allows precise aiming at longer ranges

 

[Dairyboy]

These are my 2 favorite reticles the APRS6 MIL reticle and AHMR2 MIL reticle. Both from Athlon. Shooting pests long range in wind I really like the holdoffs for wind.

Closer range guns where windage holdover isnt used much I'm quite happy with this one on my Discovery 2-12x24s.

 

[Corvid_hunter]

I have a few Athlon scope reticles in the MOA version. I really like Athlon scopes.

 

[bchannell]

I like some form of mild christmas tree, but it has to have numbers for quick aquisition of the proper hold. Especially in dark backgrounds, you can get lost in the reticle fairly easily. Hawke's AMD is pretty good but needs numbers. As I get older a lighted reticle is almost a must.

 

[wimpanzee]

my favorite out of the ones i have is the athlon with the circle and dot (as shown above). i have it on a 2-12 helos gen2, and its the best thing i have ever used for squirrel hunting and targets/plinking out to 100 yards. i recently got a discovery 5-25 prs gen2 ED, and the dot on it is so small, its often lost easily. the athlon one is perfect for me.

 

[Ezana4CE]

This is a favorite.