Abstract: A gun sight reticle includes a center horizontal hairline having a central discontinuity and a center sighting area located at the central discontinuity and circumscribed by indicia that encloses the center sighting area, the center sighting area located at a center of the gun sight reticle. The reticle also can include a center vertical hairline that is intersected by the center sighting area such that the center sighting area is located in a discontinuity of the center vertical hairline. The reticle also can include one or more drop-compensation sighting areas disposed below the center sighting area in one or more further discontinuities of the center vertical hairline, the one or more drop-compensation sighting areas being circumscribed by indicia that enclose the sighting area. Preferably, a diameter of the center sighting area is larger than a diameter of the one or more drop-compensation sighting areas.

Abstract: A gun sight reticle includes a plurality of adjustable sighting marks disposed vertically below the central sighting mark. The shooter can adjust the BDC sighting marks so that they more accurately correspond to the correct aiming position for targets that are disposed at various distances from the shooter.

Abstract: A gun sight includes a rangefinder that operates in a continuous-measuring mode as soon as the rangefinder is activated. Because the rangefinder is continuously determining the distance to the target when in the continuous-measuring mode, the user does not have to take any time to press any buttons in order to obtain a distance measurement to a sighted target while aiming at that target.

Abstract: A gun sight reticle that has orthogonally intersecting center horizontal and center vertical straight hairlines is designed such that at least a portion of the vertical hairline located on a first side of the horizontal hairline is discontinuous such that discontinuities are disposed between straight segments of the vertical hairline. Sighting areas are disposed in at least some of the vertical hairline discontinuities, and the sighting areas are circumscribed by indicia that encloses the sighting area. In one example, the sighting areas are circular, and the indicia for each of the circumscribed sighting areas forms a circle.