The reticle looks good to me.
The description says you can illuminate the entire crosshair or just the dot. There are a lot of guys successfully using crosshairs & dots.
If you wanted a SHTF gun and also play around at HP, I think the 1/4X would work fine. A lot of people using 1/2 MOA adjustments too. I even shot my PB at 600 with 1/2MOA adjustments. As Butch said though, strictly for the HP game, there are probably better scopes like the new Leupold SR and the Nightforce & March for similar money. The Leupy is cheaper with 1/4MOA, the NF costs about the same and offers 1/4MOA, the March is a little more and has 1/4MOA and adjustable parallax.
