best reticles in a hunting scope?

[Mulligan]

Leupold wind plex on a CDS scope
Simple straightforward
CW

 

[Richard Coody]

Duplex with CDS dial

 

[hunter67]

Ive been using a vortex strike eagle 1-8 and that is the fastest point and shoot reticle out to 600

 

[Steve Donlon]

I have always liked ones similar to the Redfield Accu-Range reticale with a circle in the middle. For me it helps when fast shots are needed and the outer edges of the circle help with hold over if needed.

 

[muleman69]

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Leupold wind plex on a CDS scope
Simple straightforward
CW

This looks to be an all around scope

 

[muleman69]

I like simple plex reticles with a 5ish MOA subtension at optics highest power (coupled with a low-profile target elevation turret). Nikon is great for establishing even subtensions with their plex reticles. The plex reticle is definitely the simplest ballistic and rangefinding reticle ever made.

Buddy has had real good luck with accuracy of Nikons Moa hash marks

 

[DirtySteve]

It depends on what you are hunting. Two leggers or four leggers. In a mountain terrain, heavy woods I would avoid clutter reticles. If I was hunting two leggers in the open or at a distance I would avoid simplicity. They shoot back. Just my first cup of coffee thoughts. Time change creates jet lag and I never left the ground.

Familiarity with a reticle makes use easier. If all you use is Mil-dots then a fast shot can be made. The Horus H-59 may take a bit longer to adapt to as it were second nature.

 

[ppaul]

Like a quite a few have responded, I too hunt in the brush and swamps. 200 yards would be a very long shot here. I used a duplex for the first forty years. It worked great! As my eyes started to age found myself struggling a bit to use the plain duplex. That was five or six years ago. Found a deal on a 1.5-5 X20 Leupold with the illuminated circle dot reticle. Fastest sight I have ever used! Shooting like I was a kid again. Really happy I tried something different.

 

[antelopedundee]

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Leupold wind plex on a CDS scope
Simple straightforward
CW

Just basically a fancier duplex.

 

[BuckHunter92]

I hunt Whitetails mostly in the swamps and the thick stuff associated with the swamps here in NE NY . I prefer a standard duplex (Leupold). I also like the German reticles ,easy to find in low light.

Honestly, I'm in the same boat, a german #4 or a duplex works great for our areas. lol

 

[chevytruck_83]

Personally I like the trijicon accupower 1-8 with front focal plane reticle illuminated in green or red for hunting anything that could be close to midrange. Like whitetail. Anything long range like prairie dogs etc I like the Nightforce np-2dd.

 

[XTR]

I'm very fond of my BRX/BRH Swarovski's

The Z3 in 3-10x42 weighs 13 oz, the Z5 3.5-18x44 weighs 16oz, and the glass is Swarovski. The Z3 has a BRX and the Z5 has a BRH, the BRH really isn't heavy at all. I'd get the BRH every time now that I've used them.

The long lines on the tree aren't particularly useful; however, it's about the only one out there with a simple ½ Mil reticle and not some BDC system. The lines and dots are each ½ mil.

Not my picture, but this is from a 3-10 Z3

 

[mauser284]

No such thing! LOL In a pure hunting scope where putting meat on the table is the only thing and designed for old eye's that can no longer use iron sights well a low or zero magnification scope like a reflex red dot sight would be best. Once you have people start putting all kinds of nice to have features on the table or those people that want to shoot an Elk at 1800m in the Mountains or Europeans at low light it all get's complicated fast! Meat eating only for non-sportsman nothing more than 4X and fairly heavy or crude reticle. P.S. Nothing made by Nightforce that a mall ninja might like of a tacitcal sniper wanta-be would like and definitely not anything the BR or F-Class crowd would like!

 

[TheOtherZilla]

I have an old Luopold with center pointed cross hairs. My fav.

 

[SmokinJoe]

I have some Leupold VX-R scopes with illuminated center dot that my old eyes like pretty well. My favorite for deer hunting out to 300 or so is the German #4 type with the illuminated center dot in the 3x9-50 version.