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Getting closer to Kahuna.

Twerpes is herpes and can't see the forest for the trees. Poor little twerpes is sucking hind tit He actually thinks we care what he is posting ...bless his little tiny ass heart

Aw twerpes if I give you 50 cents will you buy a better life than the one you have? You are stoooooopid because you do not get it...I have you on ignore and do NOT read your drivel.

Twerpes I can only guess at the fact that you are attempting to insult Ken and I. Keep trying little girly man

I have worn glasses since the second grade for nearsightedness. I have worn trifocals for many years. I have rarely taken a shot over 200 yards on any game animal. For two very good (to me) reason. One I can't see a small item that far and I have absolutely no skill at judging range. My first .22 was a Savage 4c and it came with a Weaver 4 power scope. My Dad mounted it using the included 'N' mount using 10/32 stove bolts as he was an Electrician and that was the tap he had. Was unpretty to the point of actually being ugli but it worked like a champ. The only iron sights I ever used was on my Winchester 94 32-40 and I wasn't too good with it. I did shoot a Peep sight for first time when I was drafted in 1956. I did pretty good with it as I once shot a 10 round group from standing to sitting at 200 yards and got a possible (all 10 rounds in the V ring). I won a commendation from the post commander for that. However the military was the last time I actually used Iron sights till I went to Africa. I killed my second Elephant with a 470NE Merkel Double which only had iron sights,but it was at point blank range and they are rather large. My other 2 Elephants as was all my other African game killed with a rifle with a scope. However I consider any rifle to be incomplete esthetically when it has no iron sights. I see absolutely nothing to be gained by limiting oneself by using exclusively irons. I certainly don't think a person who does so is any more competent in any manner.

Good post - thank you.

i can use either.....course i used to be practiced up enough with the old Glenfield single shot, iron sighted, manual cocking 22 that with a hand full of shells i could damn near get it sounding like a semi auto had to keep up with my buddy that had a scoped 10-22....used that Glenfield up through part of high school....

love ghost ring sights on rifles, will use peep as a second choice....even growing up with the irons i am a faster shot with a scope so its what i generally use....planning on putting a red dot on my Marlin guide gun just cause i want to...

course then again the last 22 pistol i had i was picking of just over 6 out of 10 pop cans at 100 with the basic non adjustable sights on a Ruger MkII and was shooting my 1911 pretty good out to 50 on rocks and such last i had it.....

Shooting whistle pigs yesterday with a Remington 121 and the sun was glaring off the back sight enough I went to a scoped rifle.

What works to stop glare and not be permanent?

Clouds.

A steel post front sight and a carbide lamp!!

If ya can't see the sights the trick is to just make the barrel longer. And them newfangled ADJUSTABLE rear sights? Hey fixed notch and blade is how Kentucky got windage named after it



(and thanks again Rog )

at one of the 'fire gatherings Paladin had some lil gadget that he used to smoke(i think) and blacken the sights on his handguns.....not sure what it was exactly.....

1-RIfles don't come with sights

2-My eyes suck w/o corrective lenses (not so at 18, but at 52 . . . )

3-With a scope, I can adjust to corrective lenses or not in a second (fast focus eyepiece and a witness mark)

BMT

speaking of which, this here is my favorite pic from my Peace Corps years. These guys were a squad of poachers WAAAAAYYY back in the bush, and a buddy and I, travelling through on foot, were the first Whites in living memory to pass through that particular neck of the woods, hence them posing with the best they had.

The gun is an old 12 gauge Greener, on a Martini-Henry action. Besides running snares, they reloaded brass shells with black powder and cast lead ball, and wore miners' carbide lanterns to spotlight game at night.



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