Well be careful with the BDC from Nikon, for it to be effective you need to be at full power. So if you don't think that you will need a 12x, it will be better to go with 9x so that the BDC is more useful to you. The Nikon BDC is not clutterly at all surprisingly. I have always hated them because they clutter up the sight picture, but after looking through Nikon's, I kind of like it.