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Front focal or not??? New Vortex...
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<blockquote data-quote="Jon A" data-source="post: 575864" data-attributes="member: 319"><p>But as I've said before, we need to be careful about generalizing. The reticle in your IOR is old and obsolete (the newer ones are much better) and really a poor design for FFP. Vortex did a really good job sizing the 4-16 and 6-24 FFP reticles, they're both very visible and usable on all powers. </p><p></p><p></p><p>If you do a search for "focal" in the optics section here you'll find several long threads discussing every conceivable point of view on the subject. It's well worth your time before making a purchase.</p><p></p><p>The short version is it depends mainly upon whether or not you want to use anything but the center portion of the reticle for anything. If you do, FFP makes a lot of sense. If not, it's really of no benefit.</p><p></p><p>Personally I like to use the reticle for all sorts of things on occasion, but the big thing I like to use it for all the time is holding wind instead of trying to chase the conditions with the turret. With FFP you can do that in any conditions without worrying about what power the scope is on. That alone would be enough to justify it for me, all the other little things I do with them are just icing on the cake.</p><p></p><p>Which PST were you looking at? I have pics of both the 4-16 and 6-24 FFP Mil reticles if you wanted to see what they look like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon A, post: 575864, member: 319"] But as I've said before, we need to be careful about generalizing. The reticle in your IOR is old and obsolete (the newer ones are much better) and really a poor design for FFP. Vortex did a really good job sizing the 4-16 and 6-24 FFP reticles, they're both very visible and usable on all powers. If you do a search for "focal" in the optics section here you'll find several long threads discussing every conceivable point of view on the subject. It's well worth your time before making a purchase. The short version is it depends mainly upon whether or not you want to use anything but the center portion of the reticle for anything. If you do, FFP makes a lot of sense. If not, it's really of no benefit. Personally I like to use the reticle for all sorts of things on occasion, but the big thing I like to use it for all the time is holding wind instead of trying to chase the conditions with the turret. With FFP you can do that in any conditions without worrying about what power the scope is on. That alone would be enough to justify it for me, all the other little things I do with them are just icing on the cake. Which PST were you looking at? I have pics of both the 4-16 and 6-24 FFP Mil reticles if you wanted to see what they look like. [/QUOTE]
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