Favorite hunting reticle?

I have always enjoyed the older scopes with the fine cross hairs.
The old B&L has the thicker pop up reticle on an outer ring on the
ocular eye piece. Slicker than chit.
I am just getting used to the Multi X, but given a choice, the
fine hairs for me.
 
I have the regular duplex in a Leupold Vari-X III on my first new rifle I bought back in 1997....learned to use the range finding capabilities if I needed it on deer-sized game.

I have a couple Leupolds with the BC reticles - love them!!. A couple fine-duplex ones and 2 in the LRD duplex on VXII scopes-great too.
 
Everyone seems to like the fine reticles - why? I mean, for target shooting I totally get it, but for hunting? A fine reticle can be harder to pick out, especially if you're not wearing your glasses, or if your parallax/diopter adjustment gets bumped, or if there's fog anywhere. It's just not a 'robust' system. I like duplex reticles, or post-style reticles for hunting - the center area is fine enough that it doesn't obstruct your target, but the rest of the reticle is heavy enough to stand out really well so that you're not spending a lot of time hunting for your reticle in less-than-ideal conditions.

For paper shooting, a fine reticle is great, and for general-purpose shooting, I really like mildots. Given enough time and experience shooting with dots, they become second-nature. And they're standardized, unlike some of the silly 'BDC' reticles - you can start to judge distances by the size of common objects relative to the dots - if a gopher is one dot high, then my holdover is 'x' and if it's 3 dots high then it's 'y,' sort of thing
 
For hunting I really like the post and beam style crosshairs. Next to that I like my zeiss #20 reticle. In the long run reticle on your optic shouldn't matter as long as you practice and are comfortable with it.
 
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