General question. Whats your preference for a all round hunting reticle? I kinda like the one on the AuSteyr, with the circle in the middle. Is there a scope maker that offers something similar?

S&B and Swarovski does make reticles like that,

I prefere the no 0 reticle for driven game and short range work, ie 150 meters and in,

that is out of a Ziess varipoint.

You do have to get your googlefoo together and go look at the large brands homepages.

/Chris

German No;4 only!
Was reminded again only the other day how useless in low light fine cross hairs are. A hunting mate was using a scope with a similar reticle to the No;4A (NOT 4) and could not line up the big boar as he could not see his fine cross hairs! Even though the 4A has heavy posts they are just too far apart to be us full.

The German #4 would be my choice for dangerous game. Though the sidebars are heavy, you have the top half to check out the scene. Though there's no post or bead nudging the target, it seems the optical evolution of the tangent express sight, without its failings.

For general purposes there's not a lot wrong with the Leupold Duplex type, of course, and that's probably what you'll get if you don't ask for anything else.

Nightforce has a circle type reticle with two sort of thin triangles as side thingees ...

I too like both the German number 4 reticle and a tapered post with fine cross hair reticle that few make nowadays.

4A with illuminated dot

90% of my scopes are duplex and I find it just fine.

blacks

German #4s on all my serious rifles (excepting my double).

Zeiss #8 for general use or a #4 for low light.

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Originally posted by blacks:
90% of my scopes are duplex and I find it just fine.

blacks

Me too!

What, like shoot game on near dark?

Another vote for the German #4.

For general game hunting I prefer the Leupold Heavy Duplex reticle as it is much better in low light than the standard duplex and is no disadvantage during the day.

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Originally posted by NitroX:
Nightforce has a circle type reticle with two sort of thin triangles as side thingees ...

I too like both the German number 4 reticle and a tapered post with fine cross hair reticle that few make nowadays.

The Nightforce FC2 reticle is brilliant for big bores, as is the NP-1

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Originally posted by NitroX:
Nightforce has a circle type reticle with two sort of thin triangles as side thingees ...

I too like both the German number 4 reticle and a tapered post with fine cross hair reticle that few make nowadays.

I have a B. Nickel scope with the post and fine horizontal cross hair you describe and I love it. Second choice is also the German #4.

As Colin Shadbolt once observed regarding a Nickel option boasting a circle around a flagpole: some of these reticles are for the birds.

Thinking Nickel, what does the 'B' stand for and are the new scopes true successors to the old ones, or just cobbled up to cannibalise a famous name like certain other products we see around now?

Can't tell you what the B stands for. It distinguishes the company from Nickel AG also called Gerhardt Nickel. I couldn't find a website for B. Nickel but I have seen some that look like very modern production. Mine is c. 1955-56 and was bought in Germany at the time.