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Ep. 302 | Choosing the Right Reticle

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Life can be complex. Choosing a reticle shouldn’t be. Mark Boardman, Jimmy Hamilton, and Nick Laufenberg dive into hunting reticles. From simple plex, to more detailed first focal plane reticles with mrad or moa hashmarks and a windage tree in the lower hemisphere – they cover the who, what, where, when, why to get you on target.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vortex Exonation Podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting,

0:08.7

public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

0:18.2

Alright what is up everybody, Jim to my right, Mr. Nick Lofenberg across from us in the

0:23.0

studio right now.

0:24.4

If you're watching on YouTube you'll see a lot of rifle scopes and the topic of today's

0:30.6

podcast, Jim, is how to choose the right reticle for your rifle scope.

0:37.4

I've got our catalog opened up in front of me on the reticles page.

0:41.8

We've got a bunch of rifle scopes on the table with different reticles in them, different

0:47.6

reticles styles.

0:48.9

If we were going to have every rifle scope reticle combination on the table right now it

0:54.8

would be even more cluttered than it is.

0:57.0

We don't have enough space on the table.

0:58.8

We don't have enough space on the table, which leads me to believe that this is a very

1:02.0

pertinent topic because we have a lot of rifle scopes, a lot of reticle options, and

1:06.2

you want to make sure you're marrying those two things up.

1:09.8

So it's going to form optimally for what you intend to use your rifle scope for.

1:13.8

That's right.

1:14.8

Can we set the stage briefly for what a reticle is?

1:17.4

Oh please do.

1:18.8

So a reticle for those who are new to the rifle scope game is something you may have heard

1:27.0

before as referred to as like cross hairs or something along those lines, but it is the

1:32.0

thing that you are going to use within your field of view to aim.

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