It's easy to tell who the 'kiddies' are; first thing they do is mount a friggin scope! I'm 'old school' and I still see the irons quite well. In original configuration the AR sights are set up for the vision of an 18 year old because of the short sight radius. It was obviously clear to old heads when this rifle was first adopted by the military that the designer thereto didn't know jack schitt about what makes for accurate shooting!!
IMO having the front sight attached atop the gas block is akin to sitting on the commode to take a dump and then realizing that you're out of crap paper!
If the front sight had been attached out farther on the barrel accurate shooting would be much easier!!
Amazing what could have been done with the sight out front. In the meantime with the sight in the wrong place the AR has eclipsed almost every M14/M1 Garand record out there in service rifle. Including 1000 yards. Firing the first ever perfect 1000 yard score that had never been done before.
And then we learned to play with aperture size and front post size on the AR and bingo, it works easy for even older eyes.
As to mounting scopes first, thats the first thing I do... test ammo with the least variables... then zero the irons.
