Originally Posted by
Bocajnala
Nobody needs a bdc reticle on a .350 legend. They just don't. But the local shop will have multiple scopes specifically marketed to that or other straight wall options.
350 Legend pushes heavy bullets with low BC's at relatively low speeds. A lot of drop within relatively short distances. For most hunting circumstances, I'd rather have a graduated reticle on a cartridge like 350 Legend (even graduations, and an FFP reticle, not an SFP BDC) than I would on a flat shooting bottleneck cartridge like 243win or 6.5 Creed.
I shot a buck several years ago with a 45-70 at 253yrds with a 3-9x40 with a simple duplex. It was a skill I had practiced and knowledge I had about the reticle to achieve what I needed to achieve to compensate for the drop in the reticle, which offered nearly zero assistance to the task - but I'd sure appreciate having MORE information in that reticle.
Sometimes I dial wind, most of the time I hold wind. Most of the time I dial elevation, at least when the trajectory compensation calls for it, but I also spent a LOT of my life shooting simpler mil-dot reticles and holding with the reticle, starting as a kid in the 1990s. I've hunted with simple duplex and German #4 reticles, and have hated doing so. I greatly prefer to have my sighting device to be more useful than a simple +.