Illuminated Reticles

minktrapper

Anyone any insight into illuminated reticles and their use,pros and cons etc.

bitemybanger

My AGS has a red/green dimmable reticle, used it once maybe twice, novelty wore off. I have a lightforce 170 mounted and can see the reticle fine without it being illuminated.
Only time I might use it is in very low light at dusk if I was taking a shot without the lamp.

FISMA

minktrapper wrote: »

Anyone any insight into illuminated reticles and their use,pros and cons etc.

I avoid them as I have no specific use for them. Most of my shooting is done during the light and not lamping.

Personally, the illumination is just another thing to go wrong. Note that many scopes offer a lifetime warranty/guarantee, EXCEPT, on the models that involve electronics and/or lights.

If you do a lot of lamping, it may be perfect for you.

ejg

Just depends what kind of shooting one does.
Lets say one prefers the reliability of a first focal plane scope.
Mostly the thickness of the crosshair is very fine at low mag and difficult to see in low light close range quick shooting conditions. At high mag the crosshair is then too fat and blots out very small targets at long range.

One of the nicest solutions to this problem I thought is the flash dot 7 reticle in the Schmidt & Bender Zenith 3-12x50. This reticle only covers around 6mm at 100m (at any magnification) making it very useable at small targets at long ranges. At low mag and quick short range shooting a bright day light dot can be switched on which is a good as a red dot sight. Great for driven shooting. Of course this red dot can be adjusted faint for dusk and dawn use.

edi

welsummer

I have one on my deer shooting rife. My crosss hairs are very fine, so when it come to low light , i can make out the body of the deer, but cant see where the cross hairs are. I just switch on the illumimenion to the first setting and then pull the trigger. With my previous scope i just would have had to of stood up and walked away. Battery is great. I left it on low, for nearly a week and it was still working.

minktrapper

Would it be any use for shooting foxs at night while lamping.Anyone out there use illuminated reticles for shooting foxs.

vixdname

minktrapper wrote: »

Would it be any use for shooting foxs at night while lamping.Anyone out there use illuminated reticles for shooting foxs.

I used illuminated reticles lamping foxes but didnt REALLY need it, as someone else said, with a Lightforce lamp or something like it you see the reticle anyways.
I used the illumination last week while out deer stalking and the sun was on its way up. I had a dark haired Pricket in the scope but with the NP-R2 reticle on the NightForce being as fine as it is, it would have been difficult placing the cross hairs on the animal correctly without it....So they sometimes have their benefits.

johngalway

minktrapper wrote: »

Would it be any use for shooting foxs at night while lamping.Anyone out there use illuminated reticles for shooting foxs.

I've owned five scopes. Four have had illuminated reticles. Never used them in anger once. For my shooting I find them completely unnecessary. Find them to be more of a distraction than anything.

Chesapeake

under a lamp a normal reticle sould be perfect.

only time I find it any use is just at twlight before i start using a lamp, when it can pin point the crosshairs, but that's probably max 5% of the time.

7.62 rule

I had a Simmons 6.5-20x power scope once with a light up Mil-dot job, for me I found it useful in bright light, but not at night time, at night time it caused my eye/ pupil to close down, thus making the image darker, so at night time I use to only use it on its weakest setting.

Cheers:):)