With the lower to middle end optics, I haven't found a good optic that has a daylight visible illuminated dot. Burris BDC reticle was huge and way to busy. Go into mid to high end optics and there are tons of good options. Swaro, Vortex Razor, Etc. a $400 SFP plane BDC optic just isn't enough of an upgrade for me to justify spending the cash vs going higher end and using what I have for now. I do find the smaller, yet larger than a Swaro or Vortex dot to be faster up close. FFP BDC reticles to me are also cleaner, less busy. What I didn't like with the Burris was that the reticle covered the whole targets at 1x on the hoser targets. When I have to do head shots up close I found it to busy to quickly use.
I have seen and used the VCOG, and still prefer it over the other higher end optics. 1-6 is were FFP makes much more sense to me. I can find targets faster out to 300. Sometimes 6x is to much for me at that range. Especially when targets aren'y bunched together and are hiding in the brush.
Also, sorry if I mistook what everyone was saying. Tone is difficult online.