Hunting and reticles. How do you look at your game.

[Canadiankeeper]

Slow night, has me looking at optics.

Wondering what tops it. Obviously you have to use optics (or no optics) specific to your own area of hunting.

Just want to take a general poll on what is being used. How do you use your optics for that shot that isn't perfectly at 100 or 50 yards.

I should have made a poll..


SO far for me tree rats are Kentucky hold overs with the rim fire. Coyotes are wait until they are under 300 yards then put my plain jane cross hair on furr and let em have it! (22-250 or 243 both hum nice and flat).

Everything else.. Irons...

 

[hoytcanon]

I like the Leupold B&C reticle for most hunting... and the Varmint Hunters reticle for long range shooting. On big bores, used for close shooting, I like the German #4 reticle.

 

[PEKS]

Hunting Rifles are topped with Leupold Duplex Reticle, Muzzleloader & Shotgun topped with Leupold Sabot Ballistic Reticle

 

[Keithjohn]

I sight ( 308, 7mm ,270. 300win etc ) in at 3" high at 100 yds . Then with leupold duplex I aim low for close shots , dead on for common range shots and back line or slightly above for longer ranges out to about 400

Above rangeing used with Kentucky windage works for me while rangefinder kestrel etc are in my pack , truck or back in the garage

 

[Dogleg]

I've got more B&C s than any other. I even use them on DGRs. Other than that, there's more than a few mildots, TMRs, Varmint Hunters, plain Duplex and Duplex wanna-bes in the fleet.

 

[conor_90]

I like heavy duplex. I recently bought a leopold pig plex reticule scope. We will see how that goes.

 

[Slamfire]

Partial to the mil dot. Because it has rangefinding and bullet drop compensating capabilities.

 

[Camoman1]

Ziess rapid z 600. Nothing faster or more simple

 

[GMC403]

Delete

 

[The Kurgan]

heavy duplex. my shots are usually under 100 meters, so I much prefer a 1-4 power scope.

 

[EJG]

For me the worst is the German No. 1. Useless at holdover, especially small targets, at low light one shoots automatically high because the little tip that one zeroed with is not visible, fast shots go automatically high because the little tip is overseen.
For quick shooting I liked a plex that is weighted the same all round, kind of centres itself. I have changed my shooting a bit and prefer mil reticles like MSR/P4Lfine etc. down at 3 mag quick in the tight cover and at 20 mag good for a 400m shot. The MSR reticle in ffp is great for long range plinking or zeroing.
One of my lighter 308's has a Schmidt Bender Zenith FD7 flash dot reticle which is also ffp but has a strong illuminated day dot. With 3-12x50 mag the scope is great in day on running deer and last light conditions, just at longer ranges I miss a parallax adjuster. I have taken deer up to 360m with this scope.
Still have two Zeiss conquest 6.5-20x50, one on a 308 deer rifle the other on a 223 for fox/vermin. Zeiss plex is very well proportioned on these and I don't miss an illuminated reticle. Often use the 223 under the lamp for fox. Only have one scope without bdc turrets and that is lying in a box.
Our deer are small Sika deer mostly in high grass often open terrain and my average distance was slightly over 200m for about 20 deer last season I therefore prefer higher mag scopes.
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[TheTooner]

Content with a duplex, prefer a post-and-crosshair, and the German No.4 is my favourite.

 

[KodiakHntr]

Turrets on pretty much everything, except for one or two rimfires and my 45/70. That is Kentucky Windage.

 

[northern skies]

The main hunting rifle has irons, just standard blade and bead. It will do for now, but will get a peep and patridge soon enough, and be sighted at 100m. The perceived POI sits right on top of the blade. Not a six o-clock hold, but I perceive the point of aim to be an infinitely small amount on top of the blade. I guess that's sighted dead-on, but thinking about it that way stops me from shooting high.

The other one has a 1.5-5x duplex, sighted at 100m. Nothing fancy. I probably would have sprung for a german post if I had a choice though.

The long range rig has a fixed 10x mil-dot. I'd get an FFP 5-15x if the money was there, but the current one works fine. I haven't used this rifle for hunting though, but the dots definitely help for wind/mover holds when going out further. They just put a perspective to the angles and range, if that makes sense.

I live in the east. Not a lot of long shots, though they can happen. I found that speed trumps everything here, because shot opportunities come and go quickly. I found that a rifle that fits and has low or no magnification was much more important. It's surprising how precise the irons really are.