“In the owner’s manual for a DOA 600, it lists the particular calibers and bullet weights for which the holdover points are accurate,” Tanker said. For instance, Bushnell says that its DOA 600 is accurate for 11 loads, including. Not every bullet and every load behaves the same way, and these 100-yard increments are more accurate for some loads than for others. “But basically, they all give you a calibrated holdover point for a given load at a given range.”Īll of that said, there’s a caveat to this. “Everybody has their own take on what this reticle shape looks like, or what the dots or bars look like,” Tanker said. This makes for a lot less guessing than the duplex reticle.” Almost every riflescope manufacturer has some version of this, each one a little different. If the shooters holds on dot number 3 at a 300 yard target, the shot should be successful. “The shooter zeros the gun at 100 yards and then holds over the target on the correct dot to compensate for distance.
“On the DOA 600, each one of the bars represents a 100 yard increment,” Tanker said. Bushnell’s version of this type is the DOA 600 with bars Redfield’s Revolution reticle uses dots. One such reticle looks like a duplex reticle, but has horizontal bars or dots at increasing distances under the crosshair. “They give us holdover points to help us compensate for range.” “All of these next generation reticles have one thing in common,” Tanker said. In recent years, as technology has advanced and shooters have demanded better accuracy over longer distances, optics manufacturers have developed Bullet Drop Compensating (BDC) reticles to help shooters compensate for both bullet drop and windage. “The rule of thumb is that you set your gun 2 inches high at 100 yards.” From there, you’ll use the ballistics chart printed on the ammunition box or the manufacturer’s website, and your estimate of the distance to the target, to compensate for bullet drop. “On the other hand, their effectiveness for long range is limited, and in low light they get hard to see,” Tanker said. Simmons calls its version the Truplex Reticle. Duplex reticles work with any caliber and load, on rimfire or centerfire, in riflescopes and pistol scopes, and they’re easy to understand and use.
Some duplex reticles, such as the Leupold Dot and Leupold Target Dot, have tiny dots at the point of intersection of the crosshairs to make aiming easier. Customers buy more scopes with these reticles than any other type.” The heavier lines allow the eye to find the center of the target easily, and the fine lines give the shooter a precise aiming point. “This type of reticle has heavy lines that intersect in the middle, with finer aiming lines.
“It’s called by several different names, including multi-X or duplex,” Tanker said. So we’ve come from crossed hairs to glass that’s etched in a computer-controlled etching machine.”įor all the technology out there, one of the most basic reticles still is the most popular. “When that paint is hit with an LED that’s inside the scope, it’s going to glow and be very easy to see in low light conditions. “Then, if they’re going to be illuminated, they’re filled in with some type of luminescent paint,” he said. Today, Tanker said, there are two basic kinds of reticles: thin metal wire that looks very much like the original crosshairs, and complex reticle shapes that are etched with a laser on glass. “They had stretched horsehair to make an aiming point,” he said. In the early days of riflescopes, Tanker said, the crosshairs really were just that-crossed hairs. “There are many ways to get on target,” Tanker said, “from the simplest crosshair where we started to the complex.” You can bet, however, that whatever you see will be similar in form and function to one of the reticles you see here. Keep in mind that you may see other reticle types when you go shopping for a new scope. Tanker gave us an overview of the most common reticle types that shooters are seeing these days, and how they work. Recently, Women & Guns reached out to Tim Tanker, product manager of riflescopes at Bushnell Outdoor Products, to gain a better understanding of what we see when we look through one of today’s scopes. With the wide range of scopes out there-some of them very expensive-shooters often can’t figure out what all the lines and dots are supposed to mean and do. They weren’t hard to understand or to use what you saw was what you got. Not so today. Back in the day (not so long ago), when you purchased a riflescope or a pistol scope for target shooting or hunting, you had a choice of simple crosshairs or a red dot.
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