ORIGINAL: Seeking Trad Deer
What are your opinions on a regular duplex recticle verses the Boone and Crocket Leupold Recticles and the multi range recticles of Burris and such. Which would you buy and why?
Most of us will never shoot at anything much over 300 yards away unless we are a little loony. For the majority of hunting, a plain Duplex is fine, if the rifle is zeroed correctly. To me, the various rangefinder/ballistic type reticles are way too "busy", having too much to look throught/at, to distract one's attention and even obscure some of the field of view at the worst possible time-when we should be concentrating on the target.
If you are sitting in the "Hoch-Sitz" like in Germany or Texas, and have range markers on every possible game approach, and have all the time in the world to fool around deciding which bead on the reticle to use, then I guess they're OK.....
But I'll admit to being a trifle weird. I like a low-powered,
FIXED-POWER (2.5X to 6X) scope that can be mounted low,has a large fields of view and doesn't have to be parallax-corrected for every different range. I think astronomical telescopes should be mounted in observatories, not on rifles!
I have several variable scopes, but have discovered, after using them off and on for forty years, that I tend to leave them set at one power setting while hunting, usually 4X, and have never changed one when a game animal was sighted! Some people use their high-power scopes for spotting, but this is a dangerous practice, for which binoculars should be used!!