I couldn't find this discussed anywhere, sorry if I'm beating a dead horse.
I didn't know SWFA had a tree reticle until yesterday. My first thought was "cool". My second thought was confusion.
I have one of their "normal" Mil-Quad scopes, with the diamonds being 1-mils and there being .5-mil marks between them. That's likely all the precision I'll ever need.
I can see going to .2 mil subtensions, but to have .2 mil AND .5 mil marks?
And the number of subtensions they have for windage seems wrong. Seems like they should have a round number of subtensions, right? If I want to go 1 mil down, 1 mil to the left, I need to count over 5 out of 7 marks? And the "1 mil", "2 mil", "3 mil" marks are only ever so slightly bigger than the 1.2, 2.2, 3.2 mils. And windage is only labelled way at the bottom of the tree.
Which I can partially understand, because you'll have a windage hold of .8 or 1.2 as often as 1.0. But it still seems harder than necessary to tell which mark is 1.2 and which is 1.0.
And then the whole reticle is saturated with .5's as well. Pretty great if I want to go 2.5 mils down and .5 mil to the right, but if I want to go 3 mils down and .5 mil to the right, my mind has to do extra draw imaginary lines anyways.
I assume I'd get used to it, but on first glance it offends my intuition. Can anybody please educate me on why this is actually a sweet reticle to use?
My ignorance posits that Primary Arm's has it right on their Griffin reticle, where the same numbers label the elevation AND windage subtensions, although granted it's less precise. Or Trijicon's, which also has .2 mil marks, labels every elevation subtension, and at least on paper looks like it has a clearer distinction between diamonds and dots and doesn't try to cram in .5's on top of the .2's.
SWFA's reticle is very similar to this one from Nightforce. (The "Horus" reticle from Nightforce meanwhile absolutely terrifies me; what kind of shooters are using this abomination? Looking at the Horus leads to be conclude I'm being far too sensitive about the SWFA reticle.)
I didn't know SWFA had a tree reticle until yesterday. My first thought was "cool". My second thought was confusion.
I have one of their "normal" Mil-Quad scopes, with the diamonds being 1-mils and there being .5-mil marks between them. That's likely all the precision I'll ever need.
I can see going to .2 mil subtensions, but to have .2 mil AND .5 mil marks?
And the number of subtensions they have for windage seems wrong. Seems like they should have a round number of subtensions, right? If I want to go 1 mil down, 1 mil to the left, I need to count over 5 out of 7 marks? And the "1 mil", "2 mil", "3 mil" marks are only ever so slightly bigger than the 1.2, 2.2, 3.2 mils. And windage is only labelled way at the bottom of the tree.
Which I can partially understand, because you'll have a windage hold of .8 or 1.2 as often as 1.0. But it still seems harder than necessary to tell which mark is 1.2 and which is 1.0.
And then the whole reticle is saturated with .5's as well. Pretty great if I want to go 2.5 mils down and .5 mil to the right, but if I want to go 3 mils down and .5 mil to the right, my mind has to do extra draw imaginary lines anyways.
I assume I'd get used to it, but on first glance it offends my intuition. Can anybody please educate me on why this is actually a sweet reticle to use?
My ignorance posits that Primary Arm's has it right on their Griffin reticle, where the same numbers label the elevation AND windage subtensions, although granted it's less precise. Or Trijicon's, which also has .2 mil marks, labels every elevation subtension, and at least on paper looks like it has a clearer distinction between diamonds and dots and doesn't try to cram in .5's on top of the .2's.
SWFA's reticle is very similar to this one from Nightforce. (The "Horus" reticle from Nightforce meanwhile absolutely terrifies me; what kind of shooters are using this abomination? Looking at the Horus leads to be conclude I'm being far too sensitive about the SWFA reticle.)
