We had a kid show up as a guest at our deer camp in Pennsylvania once. He had a ratty old sporterized No.4 Enfield. The evening of opening day he came in all dejected about missing his first deer. I looked at his gun and noticed it was missing the front sight blade. When I asked him about it he said he knew it was missing but figured on using one of the sight protector ears instead(!). I sat down and whittled a makeshift blade and epoxied it in place (never leave home without it). Next day we fired a couple shots to see how close it was and sent him on his way into the woods. I'll be darned if he didn't shoot a little spike, from around 30 feet away. So close he could've probably killed it without sights. I guess God looks out for some people...

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