Weatherby 460 scope?

My experience with lighted reticles has always lead me to conclude that they were too bright for my tastes. I'm the guy that dims his dash lights down as low as they can go and no matter what lighted reticle I have used (admittedly only Trijicon and Nightforce) I find them too bright and distracting. A crosshair with a very faint red dot at the intersection of the hairs would be perfect to show up in low light against a dark target but I've never been overly inclined to go looking for one. Mind you, since moving to this heavy timber country a little spot of brightness at the center of my crosshairs wouldn't make me angry at all. It got awfully dark last time I was in the bush out here, then again, I was using my muzzleloader and the cheapo 4x that came on it. Now with this stupid time change it can only get worse.
 
Whenever the topic of scopes for DGR rifles comes up, people tend to fixate on the slim chance of a charge, or that buffalo and elephant are big and don't need a lot of magnifying to see. That's true enough, at typical buffalo hunting distances you don't need any scope, and probably don't even need irons to land a killing hit. Trouble is, the problem is not smacking a highly visible large target at close range, it's getting the bullet through the dense bush that caused the range to be short in the first place. There's also the problem of identifying which end of that obscured black blob has a head on it, and which of the many black blobs is the one you're supposed to be shooting at. It's nice if the vitals you find are connected to the head you want as well. Then you try to find an opening that will let you thread your bullet through to your animal before they all move or spook and you get to start all over again. Since the target is the opening you find, a bit of magnification that can be accessed at will not go amiss. It's much easier to miss all those little sticks if you can see them.

I've got a 2.5-8 on my .458 Lott (used to be a Win Mag) and far more Buffalo got shot at 8 power than ever met their demise at 2.5.
 
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