Scope questions
04-23-2009, 12:36 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Missouri
Posts: 382
Scope questions
How do illuminated reticles work and what are their pros and cons?
Thanks guys
Oh and also, on some scopes there is a turning knob on the front of the scope that has numbers like 50, 100, 200 etc what does that do?
Thanks guys
Oh and also, on some scopes there is a turning knob on the front of the scope that has numbers like 50, 100, 200 etc what does that do?
04-23-2009, 01:17 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Clermont Florida U.S.
Posts: 4,970
RE: Illuminated Reticles
It depends. Most are battery powered with intensity level setting dials / turrets. Trijicon (for example) uses Fiber Optics and Tritium with no batteries. Some actually produce too much illumination rendering them less than useful.
04-23-2009, 05:39 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Illuminated Reticles
If you have good glass, I don't see the benefit of the illuminated reticle. On my scope if you can see the deer then you can see the reticle (German #4) and make the shot with no problem, even if it is dark thirty. Two brothers I know bought identical Zeiss scopes a few years ago, except one had the illuminated retical. He said if he had of known he would have never bought the illuminated.
