Another on scope hairs.

daddo

There are different types of scope hair designs.
Crosshair, milldot, crosshair milldot, and others I can't name. Which would be your choice for the 22-250 in a 4-12x40 for varmits.
I have a triangle type in the .243 and find it's good, but could it be better? I adjust the top of the triangle to center @ 100 yds.

Guns & Glass

With non magnifying crosshairs a fine hair is good on longer shots.
A 1/8" dot is even easier to use.
On magnifying cross hairs, fine, and or dot is absolutely the best.
Mil dot has become like old muscle cars, they are great to have, but there today's muscle cars are better.
However, if a scope is not properly adjusted even the best will seem difficult to use.

Happy Bullet Holes!

Alpine

I was always a fan of duplex. Bold at the edge, fine at the center.

JustC

If you are going to be shooting somewhere that you know the distances of certain landmarks, trees, points, bushes, etc, then the mil-dot is of no use to you. Mil-dots are for ranging targets of a known size and adjusting for crosswind at those distances. If you are going to be shooting some competition or if you will be doing alot of shooting on farms that you don't know distances, then the mil-dot is the one for judging unknown distances. Other than that, the 1/8 dot and fine crosshairs are good long range varmint recticles. The duplex will cover too much of the varmint up at long range, just my .02

When in doubt...empty the magazine!!

whiteclouder

Duplex. I can judge hold-over almost as well with a duplex as I can with mildot.

At 1000 yards with a .223 I've been told a rosary works well.

Clouder..

v35

The intersection of crosshairs blocks out the point of impact at long ranges and the sharp point of a trianglar reticule blurs. I like a flat topped,tapered post with horizontal wire. You can more easily judge the aiming point when it's sitting in the center of the post top. The bold post stands out better against dark backgrounds and the horizontal wire keeps you from canting the rifle.

varmit hunter

Clouder,Me thinks I saw a checkmate.

A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.

whiteclouder

v35:

I like the post and X hair too but only for big game shooting. I find that the post covers what I'm aiming at for the longer range, smaller target situation. Nothing like a post for getting on a targe quickly.

Clouder..

whiteclouder

Varmit:

I've actually played against people who refuse to give in facing an impasse. Has something to do with early potty training, as in it's not done yet.

Clouder..

v35

Whiteclouder, With longer shots you generally have time to crank in an elevation correction and keep the target point of impact in view, tangent to the top of the post.

Tailgunner1954

Shepherd combines the fine crosshair with mildots on the outside than throws in ranging rings w/ centered cross aiming point. With this scope you can leave the main cross hare at your perfect zero and move the ranging / aiming rings to compensate for windage (and put them back to where they were, with out having to refire for zero)

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Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.

whiteclouder

V35:

That's true. I've just never felt good about cranking the range adjustment up and down like that. You go up, then back down to the baseline and then back up again for every shot. Can a scope take that ten thousand times and not fail? I don't rally know.

Clouder..

Boomerang

Leupold makes what they call a Fine Duplex reticle. This is good for varmint and LD Target. I think Nikon comes with one also, but it is just named different.

Boomer

Protect our Constitutional Rights.

old single shots

I have a Leupold 4-12 with the fine duplex mounted on my 22-250.I think it is the ideal scope for target and varmints