Reticle types in miltary rifles

[Atticus Thraxx]

At the suggestion of the fine folks on this blog I bought and am now reading Steve Houghton's "The British Sniper, A Century Of Evolution". Great read. Anyway I'm reading about the SMLE MK III, MKIII* conversions. These were supplied with Winchester A5 scopes. Winchester supplied them in two different reticle types. I got to wondering why. Does the crosshair solve a different optic problem than a post? I'd buy user preference, but no military I know of cares about user preference so can anyone shed some light on this for the slow kid?

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