If it's simpler, perhaps someone could explain what the JTAC is designed to do and how it does it.
It looks like it's designed to hold (mostly) wind with dialed elevation. And to otherwise obscure as little of the sight picture as possible. Kind of like the NF MIL-C with shorter subtension lines for the wild holds and no MIL measuring thing in it which opens up the sight picture the tiniest bit more. The concept behind it seemingly being to open up as much sight picture as possible to take full advantage of the TT image quality.
As for an actual explanation, there's a kind-of one in the PRB article on scopes/reticles from this year.
"The JTAC reticle was designed by veteran pro shooters and optimized for PRS competitions. JTAC is an abbreviation for the first initial of 4 PRS shooters: JTAC = Justin, Tate, Austin, and Clay. They are each very accomplished shooters, and if anyone knows what it takes to win a national championship, it has to be these guys! They collectively represent the PRS Champions from 2019, 2020, and 2021. To be fair, Austin said that
Clay Blackketter primarily worked with Tangent on the reticle design.
I noticed the JTAC reticle doesn’t have a “Christmas tree” or holdovers like many popular reticles in the PRS. So, in a recent interview with Austin Orgain, I asked, “
Do you not find that you need holdovers in your reticle at rifle matches?” Austin told me, “I’ve been running the JTAC reticle for about 2 years, and so far, I’ve always been able to find a way to run any stage without a problem at all. Sometimes, it gets a little advanced, but so far,
I’ve always found a way to run a stage without having to hold off into space. There really aren’t a lot of holdover stages at matches, and most of the time, you’re not even that far from the center of the reticle. So we don’t really find that we need holdovers, and not having those holdover marks really opens up the reticle a lot and makes it easier to see trace and spot things through that reticle.”"
