Buy a fixed swfa and spend more time shooting and less time worrying about bullshit that doesn’t matter
This ^^^
I got one a few years ago to learn long distance shooting and ranging with the reticle, and because every gun channel on YouTube seems to recommend it.
To the OP, I'm not sure what your goal is, but i see that you want FFP, and assume that you want to use the reticle for ranging.
The SWFA glass is very good (but at 10x, most scopes will look pretty good). The turrets feel mushy, but are pin-point accurate and repeatable. I got the traditional mil-dot reticle, and wish I'd gotten the "mil-hash" reticle, since it is easier to range with.
I later "upgraded" to a Vortex PST gen 1 6-24x50, on clearance at EuroOptic for $500.
It's pretty good, but not great. I like the EBR-2C "Christmas tree" style reticle, since it allows holdovers and accurate wind holds at varying distances without touching the turrets. The turrets are fantastic, with nice clicks.
The glass is just "OK", and is a lesson why you shouldn't be "greedy" with magnification in a budget scope. The reticle has markings to the tenth of a mil, which is important for accurately ranging targets at long distances, but when you zoom past about 16x or 18x to get a closer look at the target to determine if it is, say, 1.2 mils wide, 1.3 mils, or 1.25 mils - which makes a big difference at close to 1000 yards (like, give or take 100 yards!) - the image quality degrades so much that you can't really tell where the edge of the target is. And the reticle lines are so thick, they obscure the edge of the target at higher magnification anyway. If you zoom back down to 10x or 12x, the image quality is good, but you can't make out the .10 mil reticle marks, let alone being able to estimate .05 mil differences.
I've looked through plenty of other scopes, and while some expensive glass is definitely brighter, few scopes below $2,000 seem to offer useful "Christmas-tree" FFP milling reticles.
With hindsight, I'd recommend sticking with a 10x SWFA at $300, or skipping everything in between and getting a $2,500 Vortex Razor or Nighforce or something of that ilk.
