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    THE ROTATING RETICLE

    Oct 29, 2019 6 minutes
    BY FRANK MELLONI

    When it comes to selecting an optic, we usually consider the overall quality, then the magnification range and lastly, features such as locking turrets, zero stop and any other bells and whistles.

    However, an experienced shooter will take note of one critical, yet often overlooked, component: the reticle. In many ways, selecting the correct reticle will mean more than magnification range.

    Let’s take a certain gun writer in his younger days, for example. Hell-bent on taking his .308 Winchester out past 600 yards, he purchased a mid- to high-end optic designed for benchrest shooting. While the optic gave him an 8-32x magnification, it left him just shy of adjustment by 3 mils for 1,000-yard shooting, even after shimming to the point of costing him a 100-yard zero.

    Naturally, most of us would just “make it up in the crosshairs” and use some of the mil dots to score a hit ... except that’s where the problem sits—no mil-dots. Yes, this young enthusiast drank the “BDC

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