Cross hair versus circle/dot aiming point

[bikemutt]

I've been refining my scope reticles lately, a common thread has emerged: I feel more confident, and shoot better, when the aiming point is a circle versus a cross hair. It doesn't matter what the target shape is, the circle or dot reticle is what seems to get me on, and keep me on target the best. Doesn't seem to matter if it's an empty circle or solid dot, illuminated or not.

Anyone here noticed a difference?

 

[bainter1212]

Well....not exactly a scope, but I bought an Eotech 512 last year for my AR, and I absolutely love it. Something about that large circle with the 1 MOA dot just gives me more confidence near or far.

 

[Skoghund]

I shoot a lot of moving targets, running moose range very popular in Sweden.
I was useing a Schmidt and Bender scope with a flash dot reticle but found it made the rifle top heavy. I went over to an Aimpoint 9000L and that was a great improvement. About six months ago i bought a Meopta R1 1-4x22 scope that has a Kdot reticle. A great scope to shoot with and looking forward to useing it on driven boar this winter.

 

[Snyper]

I like a small dot for quick, close range tasks, and cross hairs for more accuracy at all distances

 

[Mike C2]

I chose all of the above. I have a Leupold Vx-6 1-6 with the Circle-Plex reticle and illumination. This gives you all the options you could want with the crosshair, the circle, and the illuminated dot and no decision to be made!

 

[tuj]

An illuminated dot is the fastest visual acquisition. They found this out when they build the F-16...deadly accurate visual bombing.

 

[AStone]

I'm planning to put a a Leupold FX-II 2.5x20mm on my 336.

It has this reticle. The posts form a natural circle
(focus on the space, not the posts; easy for math geeks)
but it's still got the cross hairs. The wide duplex posts make sighting fast.

 

[Driftertank]

This is the reticle on my AR scope:



At 1x, its crazy fast on target. ALMOST red-dot fast.

At longer range, i crank it up to 4x, the crosshairs allow rapid adjustment for windage and holdover. Its a really versatile set-up.

 

[Davek1977]

Having grown up with regular cross hairs, I don't seem to like anything more complicated than a "Duplex" reticle. From targets to big game, from rimfire to magnum, from prairie dogs to whitetails, they just "work" for me

 

[rjrivero]

Driftertank using a Vortex PST 1-4x24? I wish they put that reticle in the Strike Eagle 1-6 scope too. I'm not a huge fan of drop compensated reticles.

 

[Driftertank]

Yessir. Love it, could use a little more magnification sometimes, but for the rifle's intended uses (HD and predator control) it fills the bill nicely.

 

[AntiSpin]

I greatly prefer the duplex.

"Fat" outer posts for quickly focusing on the center region, where there are very fine inner crosshairs that won't obscure the target.

But everyone is wired differently, and I'm sure that other designs work as well or better for other folks.

 

[MachIVshooter]

I like the circle and dot or small circle with crosshairs on the outside for low/no magnification projected light sights, but prefer traditional duplex reticles in actual scopes.

 

[Robert101]

My preference is the traditional duplex with mil-dots. I like the vertical and horizontal plane and need the mil-dots for windage and elevation variances.

 

[benzy2]

I've come to like a dot for most shooting. I still find crosshairs better for shooting grid pattern targets and I like hash marks over mildots for range estimation/doping. Beyond that I'll take a dot.