Thanks for all the replies so far; has anyone actually had experience with either of those scopes? THe ballistic plex reticle and the shepherd rangefinding reticles are the same idea, except the shepherds have circles for the yard markers which equal 18 inches at that specific yardage. just put the animal in the circle and pull the trigger. my only concern with this is windage, there is really no way to indicate windage. I'm obviously no sniper and that's training i wish i could get. my gun clubs all have 100 yard rifle ranges only and it's not like wind affects my bullets to much at 100 yards, so it's hard for me to tell where the bullet's going out on the fields with the longer range shots when i'm hunting. determining wind speed and direction is tough around where i hunt cuz it constantly changes. does anybody have any similar problems? Well, i'm kinda starting to regret getting my 22-250..Not the gun, the gun is awesome, but the caliber. i probably shouldve gone with a 270 or 308. i want to not worry about the wind so much. anyways, if anyone has had experience with those scopes, let me know if the caliber specific ballistic reticles are actually accurate. thanks.