What's Your Favorite Reticle — and Why?
Mine has the following features:
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🔶(1) Holdoff reticle (with evenly spaced hash lines, not a BDC) — because I like to dial for elevation and hold for wind when I have the time, and hold off for both if it's a rushed shot.
🔶(2) FFP reticle/scope — because I want my holdoff mils to be the same no matter what magnification I consider best for the shot.
🔶(3) Thick black posts on the outsides of the reticle — so that I can still easily see the crosshairs even if the reticle has shrunk a lot because I selected a low magnification on my FFP scope.
🔶(4) The same units of measure for both reticle and turrets (either both MIL or both MOA) — so that I can memorize or carry with me just one dope chart — otherwise I'd need one for the reticle, and a different one for the turrets.
And so that when I see on my reticle that I've hit 1.3mil low and 0.7mil left on the target — I just dial exactly those numbers on the turrets and I'm dead on.
🔶(5) MIL rather than MOA — because in MIL I get to read and memorize less numbers, and don't need to convert 3.73moa to 3½ and 11.78moa to 11¾.
And in MIL I don't need to calculate how many total clicks a dope is. In the MOA system 6¾ MOA equal 27 clicks. Compare the MIL system: 2.7 MIL equal 27 clicks. Plain and simple.
🔶(6) Numbers on the hash line (a few) — so that I can quickly find 7.5 mil without having to count seven hash lines down.
🔶(7) Illuminated reticle — as light isn't always good in factory buildings. And when the FFP is on low magnification the IR helps me see the hash lines better (no, I don't obsess over the half ounce of extra weight for the IR...! 😄.
Thankfully, scope makers have been giving us a good amount of these type of reticles, so there is some choice. 😊
Attached below as a good example the reticle on the Falcon S18i 3-18x50 FFP that checks all the boxes. 😄
Matthias