My experience is that illuminated reticle don't help. I have a few scopes with them and have never used the illumination when shooting at deer at last light. Too much flare to see the target. If it's too dark to see the reticle to shoot you're already past legal shooting time.
You ever looked through a Leupold on the lowest setting? I get 0 flare on the lowest 2-3 settings at dark .
