New fangled glass sighting device.

[marksman13]

Function over form for me. I don’t care what it looks like. I shoot better with a scope on top of it.

 

[e rex]

I agree with most, some rifles get scopes-some don't. When I was a little boy, I'm 80 now, my granddad gave me a Marlin 93 in 38-55, that rifle will never wear a scope. I shot my last deer with it and those skinny sights were a struggle. Never again! My other rifles wear glass, with age some things change.

 

[Walkalong]

I love irons on pistols and most rifles.

As I got older, I had to start using 1.0 diopter shooting glasses to shoot the pistols and switched most of the open sighted rifles to peep sights. And as I continue to get older, a lot of irons are being replaced with various types of optics. I guess it depends on your vision and luck in the genetic lottery!

It sure does, I wanted to keep my Ruger African in .458 just irons, but alas.......

 

[Picher]

I am with you on handguns but not on rifles. Scoped handguns and I have never been able to come to terms for some reason and I have given up on them.. Red dots, OK, scopes, NO.

(RED front POSTS are even better for me.)

 

[Dirtybob]

I like peep sights on a rifle. I do have trouble with certain scopes, especially on high magnification (eye box?). Best to remove glasses for me to see through those.
One of my .22s had a 2 moa (4 moa with astigmatism) red dot, and the other a 2-7x32. I like and shoot them both better than the factory irons.

 

[Tentwing]

Welllllll …… Due to old eyesight nearly everything that I use for “target “ shooting wears some form of glass. I even have one of my lever action 22’s wearing a scope. ( period correct of course ) All of my hunting centerfires wear glass. ( I do everything I can to make certain of one shot one and down) , but their is something about the sleek handy profile of a nice lever action that screams low profile iron sights only . Since most of my 22lr levers are mostly for the eradication of Dr Pepper cans All but one wears aperture sights. Only wears buckhorn sight still , and that is because of historical significance. Even with my eyesight good groups can still be had with a quality adjustable aperture .
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[PapaG]

I felt that way about my '94 after having put a scope on it. I took it off, and that deer season, I missed the biggest buck I'd ever seen when my bullet was deflected by a branch I didn't notice (probably wouldn't have happened with the scope on). I sawed off that section of branch and kept it for years as a reminder.

My son and I have each missed a deer due to branch deflection. Forty years apart. Both with muzzle loaders. Mine, percussion traditional, his a scoped inline.