What Reticles do the Short-Range BR Shooters Prefer?
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Tim Singleton
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Fine cross hair 40 or 50 power
swap them out for cross hair and a dot or floating dot after age 55
swap them out for cross hair and a dot or floating dot after age 55
Has a illuminated dot ever helped anyone in competition?
Nope, not in short range especially. Lighting is seldom an issue(alright, so never is a really long time). Lighting the reticle just makes it bigger and fuzzier, while taking away from the target you're looking to hit. Lol! Honestly, other than hunting in low light conditions(not comp scopes), I wish they'd not put that mess on there at all. More weight, more trouble, more money...and zero benefit.
That’s good to know then, I didn’t know if there was a eye condition that it might help.
There are exceptions to just about everything but I don't know anyone that uses the lighted reticle in any kind of br. Doesn't mean 100%, though.
Fine crosshair for BR. I don’t see a need for the raised crosshair like on the March for BR, but the raised crosshair could be useful for very long range fast shooting with a gridded reticle when the shooter is using holdovers instead of dialing for shooting at different ranges. This is especially true when using 1st focal plane scopes, because there is a lot less grid visible when zoomed in to the highest power.
Pete Wass
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ONLY IF one has binocular vision. Many people do not. I asked an eye Dr I use to see if one could train themselves to acquire that kind of vision and he said, " Perhaps if you had started when you were very young".
Pete. I tricked my brain into just watching the flags in my scope instead of watching all of them. All I did was learn which was very easy for me to keep both eyes open and watch all the flags not just the ones in my scope. I didn't need to only concentrate on the flags in the scope which was about 2 more than normal. But again me and you only shoot short range score and if you can't see 6 flags with your eyes out to 300 yards then you have a problem.
P1ZombieKiller
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Maybe..... but the real reason is they are all Aliens.... No human can do what they do.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
Pete Wass
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@ 79, I have a great deal of difficulty processing over 4. You'll
Pete see if you get here.
Shooting UBR 100-200-300 score I like the NF Comp DDR-2. If the wind is bad I can find somewhere on the reticle to hold around the dot on the target instead of having to count lines on the target
FNSafari
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X-hair with a dot seems most prevalent. Personally, I like a simple X hair, much cleaner to my eye as to where I am pointing the rifle.
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