What's your favorite Reticle and why?

[Grmps]

What's your favorite Reticle for what application and why?

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[Love Life]

Mildot because I find them easy to use and can be used for any caliber.


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[LUCKYDAWG13]

I like this 211879 if it's in the circle out to 200 yards and my target is 10" i will hit it this is the scope i had on a ar before i sold it Redfield reticle

[blikseme300]

211880

I prefer the duplex reticle as made by Leopold. My primary application is for hunting out to 200 yards and typically the light levels are low during dawn or dusk. I found that the very thin reticles some scopes have get lost under these light conditions. I don't like BDC or any other bits in my field of view as I'm not familiar with them and see no need for them.

[tdoor4570]

Mil-dot nothing else to be said.

[Omega]

I prefer Mil-Dot, but I don't mind any that don't obscure the target. I have a couple Nikons with the BDC reticle, when I first got them it took some getting used to.

[Texas by God]

I don't like them busy. I like the Redfield Luckydawg pictured above, dual X, post and plain crosshairs and use them all. I'm not a battery powered sight fan-yet. I just like practicing and learning my trajectory of my rifles.

[35 shooter]

I know how to put mildots to good use but, i prefer a duplex for general hunting. If you can judge range or use a rangefinder, it's easy enough, with a bit of practice with your rifle and load, to quickly judge hold over with the duplex for general big game hunting.

Mildots have their place, but i just prefer an uncluttered reticle for everyday type hunting.

[M-Tecs]

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works great for wind hold offs

[lefty o]

nightforce's np-r1 reticle for varmints. i can rangefind with it and do the math in my head quickly.

[Rcmaveric]

The scopes I got had the Rapid Reticle type (Weaver and Nickon Prostaffs). They were called ballistic reticles. Gives me confidence when taking shots past 100 yrds. With my .270 Winchester drop to between the 2nd and 3rd line 200 yards.

[barrabruce]

I like my Leupold spr recticle .
At 1x the dot is 5moa and the circle centres my eye.
Crank it to 4x and the 2.5 millirad marks are now 10 moa which is good for longer work..

I liked my old weaver k4 duplex.
It was a fine wire and covered little.
The 8 moa to the thick lines made it good to 100yrds easy with a 22lr sighted at 50 yrds with std velocity ammo.

[Petrol & Powder]

Depends on the task.

The fine line crosshair is still hard to beat for purely target shooting, particularly with rimfire .22.
I've used Mil Dot reticles and if you know what you are doing, they are the fastest type for range estimation and correction. If we're talking all-around, high power rifle (no .22 rimfire ) shooting, The Mil Dot is my choice.
The duplex reticle with the heavy outer posts and fine inner crosshairs is a real close second for an all-around reticle.

And for east coast hunting, the German #1 (post style) reticle is perfect ! (IMO :-o )

[Rick Hodges]

I love the Leupold Heavy Duplex....as used on the shotgun, muzzle loader scopes. The outer part of the crosshairs are heavy enough to see in low light in any conditions legal to hunt in...and the center is fine enough for distance work on small targets.

[robg]

burris ballistic is my choice

[Outpost75]

Of the common American scope reticles I like the plain vanilla Duplex, all the rest of them are "too busy".

I'm not shooting a tank gun on a moving target...

But for low light shooting the German #1 is superior, and I've also used the inverted post on big game rifles and find it useful.

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[JWT]

I like the Leupold HD for most things. For dangerous game rifles (416Rigby, 458 WinMag) I have the German #4.
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[Bent Ramrod]

I have the mil-dot reticle on my MVA scope. I’m still in the process of educating myself on the workings (or not) of the windage adjustment, so it’s very useful to hold off on a target when the winds (or something) are shifting and time is running out. The mil-dots let me do that really well.

I once hit ten Rams in a row holding ahead of their noses with the second mil-dot to the right on the front legs where they joined the body. Once everything started working, there was no way I was going to mess with those adjustment screws.

Other scopes for less exacting purposes are fine with plain crosshairs or crosshairs and Lee dot. I have one with a post, but it tends to cover distant targets that I need to hold over, and isn’t very reproducible on those I hold under.

[Dan Cash]

I am old school and stay simple. My choice is the Zeiss (German) #1 reticle with the rifle (.30-06 or similar) zeroed for 200 yds/mtrs. This will enable an accurate shot to 300 yds/mtrs; beyond you don't need to be shooting game. People are a different story.

[RPRNY]

German #4 for game. A simple fine line cross hairs for targets.

I have an old Bushnell with an optional post reticle, can't remember the marketing name for it. It's a fine cross hair reticle and with a turn of the dial, a post reticle can be made to appear. Pretty much ideal.

[Themoose]

Mil-Dot gets my vote, and mil-mil not mil-moa... They can be used for any caliber in combination with a good ballistic program... I have the Strelok on my smart phone and Strelok has over 500 reticles in their data base on the premium editon.. I have a couple of SWFA's with mil-mil on a Knight .45 inline shooting a 400 grain paper paatched bullet and the other is on a 300 WinMag shooting a 185 grain Berger... both can hit the target if I do my part... of course I spend some time on the range verifying the velocity and POI to the calculations...I'm an old codger and don't shoot as well or as much as I used to... wish I had one of these scopes and programs when I was a serious ground hog hunter back in the 60's.

[18Bravo]

211939It kind of depends on the application. Several good ones out there. As others have mentioned, I don’t do busy very well. If I must pick one reticle it would be a variance of the Mil-Dot. I just procured a Nightforce with their MOAR reticle and really like the versatility. Good for target and hunting and easy to use and understand

[Texas by God]

German #4 for game. A simple fine line cross hairs for targets.

I have an old Bushnell with an optional post reticle, can't remember the marketing name for it. It's a fine cross hair reticle and with a turn of the dial, a post reticle can be made to appear. Pretty much ideal.
"Bushnell Command Post"-very cool old scopes!

[umwminer]

Mine wasn’t pictured . I’ve got an old Weaver with a fine horizontal cross hair paired with a heavy tapered vertical post . Wicked fast on moving critters .
I think that I would really like that upside down crosshairs & post that Outpost pictured .

[rking22]

Simple and clean, tapered post described above or duplex with fine center wires. I varmit hunted in the 70s and had no trouble with hold off out to 350 or so, no range finders just lots of practice estimating range. I shot one rifle and one load in it with a Unertl 15x . Now if I still varmit hunted I might play with one of the mil dots, but I dont. Only use a scope occasionally when hunting, like 10 percent when deer hunting, fixed 2 or 4 generally, so you should consider me a bit old school. That 4x fixed gets me to 300 with my 308 and I have no interest in shooting deer at that range. Squittels get a 6x fixed with fine crosshairs most always unless im taking an old rifle for a walk, then its factory opens. Dont shoot much paper.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

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I prefer the duplex reticle as made by Leopold. My primary application is for hunting out to 200 yards and typically the light levels are low during dawn or dusk. I found that the very thin reticles some scopes have get lost under these light conditions. I don't like BDC or any other bits in my field of view as I'm not familiar with them and see no need for them.

I'd say this one. The human eye is very good at judging the middle of things, and in the worst possible light in which you can use any scope on game, it is likely to be on something close up, and the middle of those four coarse bars is still right in the middle. But if you are using the same scope where extreme precisions is required, there are the thin wires to do it with.

For some sorts of shooting, rangefinder and windage gauge reticles will be superior, but I'd rather be shooting at ranges close enough to do that by depth-of-deer scale. I don't much want to shoot anything smaller than a rabbit with a rifle, and I can get to fifty yards of a rabbit.

[roysha]

Although you don't list it in your choices, for hunting I prefer the old Leupold CPC. Got my first one in 1969 and still use it today.

For varmint, 22RF and target I like to use a very fine plain cross hair. Back when Premier Reticule was doing their thing I sent several scopes to them for 1/10" cross hair. Still have 3 or 4 of them, mostly in 12X scopes. Given my aging eyes, the 1/10" is getting a bit difficult to see under some less than ideal conditions but I still use them regularly.

[NoAngel]

Nikon's BDC reticle.

THE absolute best cast load I have ever come up with shoots MOA at 50 and 100 yards. The Nikon BDC I have on the rifle is dead on at 50 and the first circle is dead on at 100. I have no place to shoot further but I imagine the others follow suit.

[500Linebaughbuck]

i like to use mil dot for groundhogs and such, but i use leupold's duplex reticle.

[Harter66]

This is my preferred too .
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I have made assorted hold overs for range with this and it is for me as easy to make an adjustment for a body or duplex change as anything else I've used .

I do have a couple of the old Weaver K4s with the fine horizontal and heavy post as well as the fine wire .

[Shopdog]

Low lite-Leupold heavy plex

Target-old Weaver fine line

Offhand/moving-post on a fine line

[500Linebaughbuck]

i forgot about this one

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[nekshot]

For target thin duplex in middle. For hunting in brush the German Post, out in the fields I am happy with a regular Duplex. I calculate in my mind for hold over.

[Smoke4320]

211880

I prefer the duplex reticle as made by Leopold. My primary application is for hunting out to 200 yards and typically the light levels are low during dawn or dusk. I found that the very thin reticles some scopes have get lost under these light conditions. I don't like BDC or any other bits in my field of view as I'm not familiar with them and see no need for them.

as a deer hunter now I agree with the above .. as a long range accuracy shooter in the past for that application fine crosshairs were always my favorite

[EDG]

For deer hunting and larger varmints I use mostly the standard Leupold duplex out to 300 yards.
For benchrest shooting I have both fine Leupold crosshair and the Leupold dot. The fine cross hair causes a lot of eyestrain. The dot works much better.
I will never use the other reticles unless I get to try out prairie dogs.
I have too many good scopes to swap out reticles.

[375supermag]

Hi...

Leupold duplex works well for me on game animals out to 300yds.
Works pretty well on paper also.

I need to scope a heavy barreled Sako L57 that was re-chambered to .308 with a Schultz & Larsen barrel that I recently purchased at a local gun show.
Torn between a Leupold or a Vortex...still juggling powers, objective lens size and reticle type. A lot to consider...going to be a range toy, so I would like to wring as much accuracy out of it as possible. Probably never take it hunting...it's pretty heavy without optics. I have plenty of other rifles for hunting. Should be fun working up loads for it this spring and summer.

[Rafe Covington]

German #4, don't really have a reason other than the fact that my DAD used one and I started using it. It works for me.

Rafe

[Moonie]

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I like the Vortex MRAD in a FFP

[RedneckRob]

I shoot the German number one best so for me, that's the one I prefer.

[Outer Rondacker]

Irons for levers

Fine cross for dial in range shooting.

Moa Hash for 22lr comp.

BDC for 223/5.56 and 308.

Favorite scope of all time is still the sightron SIII 10-15x60 MOA. But I am not used to real nice scopes so this one is the best I have used.

Just got a Athlon Argos BTR and so far not to pleased.