So... I get Horus reticles. I mean, I think they're busy of course, no one really argues that. My issue with them is that with whole lines ever 1 mil, and dots every .5 mils, you are more at most ever going to be "holding in space" at .25 left/right off a marking and .25 up/down off a marking. That's with a poor-case hold of something like 2.25mil and .75 left wind which since we're only using scopes with .1mils is even slightly less of an issue. I don't like this, but maybe some people do. It seems extremely difficult to me to be able to accurately call your shot if you're holding in space. I don't want to discuss Horus really... But....
My larger issue is with the Horus-Like reticles, where there is a line at every 1 mil only (Vortex Razor for a special example but there are more from IOR, Bushnell, even the Horus Temor reticle seems to skip everything under 1mil but that's a weird BDC-for-wind-type-of-thing I'm not sure I fully understand either)... Anyhow... with these Not-Horus reticles, it seems like you can be .5x/.5y holding in space. It seems utterly useless unless you happen to be .2 or less within a whole marking. That is:
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1.0 Great
1.2 ok
1.4 bad
1.6 bad
1.8 ok
2.0 Great
Am I missing something? Do people really want to hold in space like that? Is that what you are supposed to do without .5 mil markings? Is this just a horus-patent-work-around gimmick that will go away?
I'm not crazy about Horus, but it seems these not-horus are worse while trying to be less busy. Maybe these are for crap-I-have-no-time-to-dial moments? Moving targets? Just guess-non-precision shooting? Reference as an impact indicator?
My larger issue is with the Horus-Like reticles, where there is a line at every 1 mil only (Vortex Razor for a special example but there are more from IOR, Bushnell, even the Horus Temor reticle seems to skip everything under 1mil but that's a weird BDC-for-wind-type-of-thing I'm not sure I fully understand either)... Anyhow... with these Not-Horus reticles, it seems like you can be .5x/.5y holding in space. It seems utterly useless unless you happen to be .2 or less within a whole marking. That is:
|----|----1
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|- (hold 1.5, .7right, wtf?)
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|----|----|----2
1.0 Great
1.2 ok
1.4 bad
1.6 bad
1.8 ok
2.0 Great
Am I missing something? Do people really want to hold in space like that? Is that what you are supposed to do without .5 mil markings? Is this just a horus-patent-work-around gimmick that will go away?
I'm not crazy about Horus, but it seems these not-horus are worse while trying to be less busy. Maybe these are for crap-I-have-no-time-to-dial moments? Moving targets? Just guess-non-precision shooting? Reference as an impact indicator?