My son and I were out shooting gophers a couple days ago. No scopes on either of the rifles we were using. I was having a hard time with my glasses while trying to make out the gophers over the sights. Thankfully with my contacts I don't have this problem. My son said we should have scopes. I told him while scopes are nice and we can see better with them I want him to learn how to use open sights first. Once I put my contacts in the gophers were in trouble.
I learned how to shoot with open sights and then used them for 20 years in the AF. Scopes have their benefits, but anything can fail so most of my rifles have open sights and several (leveractions) don't have scopes.
