I had a scope with an illuminated reticle. It looked cool, but I never really used it in the field. I would think that if you need your reticle to light up it is too dark to be shooting any way? It might help if you have really bad eyes though.

If it were me, I wouldn't spend the extra money on it. The scope I wanted had it already I didn't really purchase the scope for that feature.

Or you could get one of the bushnell fire fly scopes, some like those pretty well.

Paul