I guess the net answer is "sometimes."

I had a Winchester 94 AE trapper .44 magnum for a few years which I scoped. I've had several Marlins, scoped and unscoped. My notion is the Marlins are easier to scope and are less affected, functionally, by a scope, yet for some reason that winchester came up pointed where I wanted to shoot better than the marlins do. Unless there's a difference in drop in the stock I can't think of a reason for that.

Doesn't really matter, if I have them scoped I wish I had iron sights on them and when I have one with iron sights I wish it was scoped.

I think the right answer is to have two otherwise identical rifles, one with iron sights, one with a scope.

Tom

Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.

Here be dragons ...