I think iron sights are becoming pointless.

Any of us approaching 50 (and older)
Can remember a time 30 years ago
When the glass wasnt as good... And our eyes wasnt as baaaaad lol.
There is far more glass around my house these days.... Pistol scopes on Blackhawks, Burris Fastfire's on HD shotguns... Scopes on all the hunting
Bolt actions ect. Even a EoTech with the 3x magnafier. While I want irons
On anything that normally has them
Glass is getting to mandatory.
 
IMHO - scopes are fun on the range but, for me at least, will never replace iron sights for serious shooting. With my 80 year old eyes (then - now 85) and my Williams FP71 on my Winchester 95 in 30-06 - I had zeroed my sights to hit POA (Point Of Aim) at 25 yards and fine tuned it to hit 2" above POA at 100 yards with this result.

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Not bench rest but fist rest on the range table - less than 1 MOA with paired shots and the solo shots were elbow rest from that table. Don't consider myself an expert - but have been shooting close to 80 years and do shoot every week - joys of being retired. I couldn't do better with any scope and, look at the fun I'd miss. Didn't use a scope for hunting though my knees tell me my hunting days are past but, iron sights and apertures particularly served me well - and still do.

Besides that, they look good on lever guns where scopes don't - for me, at least -

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I'll stick with the iron sights on my SKS, really don't feel like paying for another scabbard for my saddle rifle, or even worse, sewing a new one.:)
 
I hate scopes for quick shooting, they are all but useless for me on a moving target, even very low powered or "scout" type setups. I can shoot well with open sights out to a respectable range and am very accurate with peep sights a long way out there. Irons are indespensable for me in certain applications. My op[timum cambat set up would be a properly calibrated set of peep sights and a zeroed 2x7 Leupold in my pack which could be mounted fairly quickly if in a long range standoff or expected long range shot.
 
Iron sights work ok for me, at ranges less then 200 meters, but that is how I learned to shoot. I really haven't gotten that skilled with optics, but I have only one rifle with a scope. It's a CZ 527 with a bushnell elite 3200 40 mm 3X10.
 
Iron sights are way cheap and way durable compared to optics. They are going to be with us for a long time.

Also, I have had battery problems in the past.

I also like that I feel like I could fix/repair iron sights if I had to, as opposed to some electronic gizmo.
 
For my older rifles such as the, Savage 99, Pre-64 Win. 94, and matching K98 I'll stick with iron sights. I hunt with all these rifles and have had to pass on game in low light but I still love the look and feel of these weapons.
 
I think everyone should be proficient with iron sights. I like scopes just as much as the next guy but I think using irons is rifle basics and everyone should learn to use them.
 
Shucks...worth a shot ;)

Biggest thing about the M16 that I ever had issues with is teaching the city boys
that they were supposed to flip the dust cover back up AS SOON AS they finished firing it,
BEFORE getting up to move...especially important at 6th RTB's training grounds.

Getting that white sand (or any sand/dirt/etc) inside an M16 of any generation leads to horrible problems,
which could only be resolved by a field-strip cleaning.
 
I think everyone should be proficient with iron sights. I like scopes just as much as the next guy but I think using irons is rifle basics and everyone should learn to use them.
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Ya, and all airplaines should have propellers, and all cars be stick shift, and all air conditioners turn into fans, and and and. I may have been born in the first part of the last centrury, but I'm sure as hell glad I live in this one.

If it wasn't for advances I would be dead (open heart surgery) and blind (double cateract surgery) and suffuring (cancer surgery), so you can keep your open sights and remember what it was like in the good old days. Me I will take any advantage in taking a trophy.

Jim

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i like optics. On other peoples guns. That way i dont need to buy an optic that cost the same as the gun they do:)

In all honestly i shoot better with optics. Although for my uses, mostly recreation, irons are fine. if i went to war yeah give me a short dot or soemthing cool.
 
I would also like to say that...you are freaking awesome dude.....and iron sights are good...and true..some things will fail..simmons tasco..but nightforce with good mounts on a good rifle...fn accuracy international..remington..have a place in this world...:)
 
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