Illuminated Reticle for hunting...

[In-Yo-Grill]

Thinking about moving to an illuminated reticle for my 22-250. 6-20X50 or 8.5-25X50. Anyone have any pro's and or cons they can comment on?

[Lungbustr]

They are nice, but not really necessary. Any specific questions? We have been doing a lot of predator calling. We started out with really crappy lights. The illuminated reticle on my schmidt and bender pm2 5.5-25 helped out a lot. That and being a 56mm scope with a 34mm main tube. There is obviously no not being seen by the crosshairs. That scope is awesome for night hunting. But it is expensive to be banging around in the dark with and it's mounted to a long range gun, so it's extremely heavy. It only lights up the center of the crosshairs, which I prefer.

But I have some of the sniper hog lights on order, should make it much easier to shoot my 50mm leupold vx3. I should be able to see my reticle with no problems then.

[In-Yo-Grill]

They are nice, but not really necessary. Any specific questions? We have been doing a lot of predator calling. We started out with really crappy lights. The illuminated reticle on my schmidt and bender pm2 5.5-25 helped out a lot. That and being a 56mm scope with a 34mm main tube. There is obviously no not being seen by the crosshairs. That scope is awesome for night hunting. But it is expensive to be banging around in the dark with and it's mounted to a long range gun, so it's extremely heavy. It only lights up the center of the crosshairs, which I prefer.

But I have some of the sniper hog lights on order, should make it much easier to shoot my 50mm leupold vx3. I should be able to see my reticle with no problems then.

I'm thinking about putting it on my Rem 700 VS 22-250. It has a heavy barrel and I was wanting to do some varmint hunting with it. I use it to hunt deer from time to time as well.

[RR 314]

Thinking about moving to an illuminated reticle for my 22-250. 6-20X50 or 8.5-25X50. Anyone have any pro's and or cons they can comment on?

I have switched over to the Swarovski Z6i's and have a couple Kahles, Leupolds etc. that are illuminated and you get spoiled in a hurry. Black hog heads at dawn, dusk and night are much easier to shoot with precision with illumination.

[Cajun Blake]

huge fan and use it all the time on my Mk 4's

[Lungbustr]

I guess as long as you have plenty of levels of illumination and it's not an automatic only type illumination I don't see any negatives. Mainly it's just much faster to find the crosshairs and get them where they need to be. I'm using that leupold on my .204 because it was sitting in the safe homeless. I sure wouldn't mind if it was illuminated.

[dustoffer]

Bought a Vortex with lighted dot for my hog hunting but haven't used it enough to decide if I like it or not. Have shot a few with it on my .25-06 Ruger, but my go-to rifle is a M70 Featherweight in .22-250 with a Leupold 3-9 and heavy duplex reticle. Probably ought to switch the Vortex to the M70 and give it a shakedown this year.

[WTJim]

Get a scope with a 30-34 mm tube and 50-56 mm objective. Also check out Trijicon scopes. I have one and love it! That being said I also have a Nikon illuminated center dot I really like also.

[bermise]

The Swaro Z6i reticle is awesome. It is a consistent brightness and clear.

[SmTx]

Buy this so I quit looking at it

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=505795

[In-Yo-Grill]

Looks like someone honored you wish...

[Big pig]

[QUOTE=Lungbustr;9617974]I guess as long as you have plenty of levels of illumination and it's not an automatic only type illumination I don't see any negatives. Mainly it's just much faster to find the crosshairs and get them where they need to be . . . . .

Same here. Especially on black hogs

[wsteffen]

I guess as long as you have plenty of levels of illumination and it's not an automatic only type illumination I don't see any negatives. Mainly it's just much faster to find the crosshairs and get them where they need to be. I'm using that leupold on my .204 because it was sitting in the safe homeless. I sure wouldn't mind if it was illuminated.

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[COWDOG]

Love my Leupold vxr.

[ar3731guy]

Love my Leupold vxr.

I'm with him. Love mine also.