What reticle do you prefer?

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?
 
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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.

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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
 
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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).
 
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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.
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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