I use several sfp scopes on rifles for practical steel matches - specifically, Sightron SIII 6-24x50 LRMOA & Vortex Viper PST 6-24x50 EBR-1 MOA. Only time I cuss sfp is when setting up to shoot movers. One match organizer has kept his movers at pretty much the same speed & distance (~443yds) for the two years I've been shooting there, so it was easy to set the SIII on 9x to get the right lead using hashmarks on the reticle. But at the last match, he included a 6" square plate at the same distance that you had to engage before engaging the mover and sped them up a bunch. Throw in a little wind (about 2.5 MOA worth), using the Vortex instead of the SIII, and it got more complicated. I can sit down here and figure lead & wind out - pretty easy, with no stress, distractions, or time limits involved. But get on the rifle and start wondering whether to dial in the lead or use the reticle, and what to do about the wind....
A ffp scope doesn't solve all my issues - only practice solving practical problems in the field will help. I've got a couple of 1.5-6x24 ffp Weavers that I wish were 2nd fp, simply because having the reticle smaller at low, QC magnification settings is just backwards to what I need. The only other ffp scope I have is also a Weaver - a 5-15x50 tactical model with mil dot reticle & MOA turrets - that doesn't do much for me either, even though it's an otherwise very good scope, with very good glass and accurate & repeatable clicks.
What it boils down to for me is to use one type of scope on all my tactical rifles, and work with it until solutions in the field are intuitive. It's either that, or mentally flounder & miss at a match.
