What Reticles do the Short-Range BR Shooters Prefer?

[South Pender]

Is there any kind of consensus about the best reticle for short-range BR shooting? Just curious.

 

[Jefferson]

600 yards and under

crosshair or crosshair with dot

100, 200, 300 yards
use a 35-45 power fixed

 

[doclu60]

I shoot RFBR, so 50 yards or meters. That's pretty short range! Reticles are a personal preference, and mine is the floating dot reticles. NF, DDR2.....March, MTR-2.....Vortex, ECR-1. A fairly large NF distributor once told me that crosshairs and dot was his best seller, and DDR2 was his second best seller.

Scott

 

[Schippergreg]

Fine crosshair or fine crosshair with dot. I believe my scopes have a 1/10 moa dot.

 

[jackieschmidt]

I like just a regular fine cross hair.

 

[JimPag]

Most of my 2 dozen BR scopes have a fine crosshair and dot. I use mostly a 3/32 dot to be exact. I do have a couple of just plain crosshair reticles. I don't mind them but I prefer a dot of some sort. I have a few scopes with an 1/8 dot and I only use that size dot at 2 and 300 yards or meters.

 

[MasterYoda]

Fine crosshair and crosshair with dot

 

[D Coots]

Most of my 2 dozen BR scopes have a fine crosshair and dot. I use mostly a 3/32 dot to be exact. I do have a couple of just plain crosshair reticles. I don't mind them but I prefer a dot of some sort. I have a few scopes with an 1/8 dot and I only use that size dot at 2 and 300 yards or meters.

^^^^^^When I finally used a dot in 2005, I never realized how fast my eye centered on the target.

 

[Bronsin]

All 4 of my scopes are crosshair with a dot. I did have the chance to use a scope with the LR reticle and really liked it. My next new scope will have it.

 

[RCE1]

1/8 min dot

 

[DngBat7]

My march has a fine crosshairs with a 3/32 dot.

All 4 of my scopes are crosshair with a dot. I did have the chance to use a scope with the LR reticle and really liked it. My next new scope will have it.

second that. Gonna send my march in over the winter for a crosshair/dot LR reticle. Maybe I’ll get one extra flag in there

 

[BartsBullets]

Crosshair with dot or floating dot. I shoot both (Valdada 40 power).

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

Crosshairs a personal thing. My personal all time favorite is this one from March.

 

[JimPag]

My march has a fine crosshairs with a 3/32 dot.

second that. Gonna send my march in over the winter for a crosshair/dot LR reticle. Maybe I’ll get one extra flag in there

Dan I've owned a raised reticle for 10 out of my 11 years shooting. It's a nice reticle but I developed tunnel vision using that scope with getting more flags inside the scope because it made me forget about the closest ones. Now I just keep both eyes open and see all the flags whether it's 4 at 100 or 6 at 2 & 3. To me it's pretty useless in short range score since you can see all the flags just by keeping both eyes open.

 

[bichettereds]

I’ve never had a raised reticle but I’ve looked through one. I think it would take some getting use to.

I’ve used fine crosshair only, crosshair with dot and a floating dot. Can’t say I have a preference but since my aim point is center of the mothball I think the dot is nice.

A 3/32 dot seems like the goldilocks size for me.

 

[Fuj]

I use March's MTR-2. It has about the smallest dot you can get, and
the hash marks to either side, and underneath help you to bracket
the target when things get fuzzy......

 

[WyleWD]

Floating Dot or fine crosshair with a small dot. 36x & 40x. WD

 

[AlNyhus]

^^^^^^When I finally used a dot in 2005, I never realized how fast my eye centered on the target.

Dave, our brains are really good at centering a dot within a circle. That's one of the reasons that the 6X Hunter shooters can shoot the scores they do.

Stay warm buddy. -Al

 

[D Coots]

Damn Al, I thought it was just me and my distorted mind...

First snow yesterday, 3"

You still chasing coyotes?

 

[Greg@wfcustom]

5 NF’s, 2 Leupolds, all with fine CH and dots.
The Leupolds are 1/8, the NF are 3/32 which as mentioned above seems just right. YMMV
G