I bought a used NF this summer to mount on my kids' rifle.
I don't care for their reticles at all. I also don't care for any of Trijicon's reticles, at all.
I'm a hunter who enjoys dabbling in long range shooting. My needs in a reticle are different than what most .mil or PRS type shooters need. But I fear that my needs aren't a large enough market segment for either of those companies to pay attention to.
If they did, I'd ask them to consider the following:
-There's a lot to be said for SFP scopes, and in my opinion they are actually superior up until you get to maybe 16x or higher. People who are really serious about spotting their shots will argue for less magnification; most hunters will lean in favor of clearly seeing and defining their target area and *making* their shots, often on animals that are partially obscured. So there'll always be a debate about the proper magnification range for a hunting optic but I think most of us will lean towards 12x to 16x on the upper end. I've shot to 500 yards and beyond on 4x but really think of 6x as an absolute minimum and absolutely do not subscribe to the notion that 6x is sufficient for everything. IMO, if a scope tops out at 16x, if I am perfectly fine with it being SFP because I won't be making huge wind corrections or quick elevation corrections based on the reticle unless I'm shooting to at least 300+ yards and then I won't be worried about needing to drop much below 16x or whatever. If I do it's easy enough to place a detent or mark at 8x and double everything.
-As a hunter, I do not need 10moa of windage hashmarks, much less 30moa or whatever silly number some scopes have. Six minutes is plenty. Beyond that I am not shooting. So let's compromise at maybe 10moa or 3mils of windage hashes. That's plenty.
-I really like the tapered crosshairs that Burris uses in some of their reticles.
Like this:
https://www.burrisoptics.com/reticles/ballistic-plex-e1-ffp-2-10x-and-3-15x
Imagine a reticle with taper like that, but perhaps 6-10moa or 3mils of windage in 1/2mil or 2moa increments. Plenty for hunters. Now imagine the windage hashes were sticking out of the top half of the horizontal crosshair, but the bottom half was still tapered for visibility in low light.
Also imagine that the BDC Christmas tree shown in the above reticle was in half-mils or 2moa increments for elevation and for every 2moa of elevation the 'branches' went out 1moa for windage, or for every 1/2mil of elevation, the branches went out 1/4mil for windage.
Do that mini-tree for perhaps 3mils or 10moa of elevation and no more than 1.5mils or 5moa of windage, and it would be quite functional as a quick and dirty reference for fast shots at intermediate ranges, without overly cluttering the scope. Leave that part of the reticle fairly thin, because I'm not making quick and dirty 500 yard shots unless the lighting conditions are pretty good.
Now make the lower vertical crosshair and both horizontal crosshairs a thicker taper, so that you can rapidly find the center of the scope in very low light conditions for 0-200 yard shots.
That would be about perfect, IMO.