Great price on an excellent scope----in normal light no need for the lighted reticle, but when the light fades fast, you can turn on that red reticle and actually see those cross hairs on deer hair just enough longer to get that buck when he steps out into the open at the last moment of shooting light---without the red light it is hard to tell the dark line of the verticle line of the crosshair from a (verticle ) tree trunk. pg