Photon Guy
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Some rifles do not have iron sights and instead use a scope for aiming. Im trying to think of situations where one might be better than the other. I would think if you need to get off quick shots and particularly quick follow up shots iron sights are better since you can aim much faster with them. If you're shooting from really long range and you have more time to take a shot and you aren't as concerned with fast follow up shots a scope would be better since they're more accurate particularly at long range and that's why sniper rifles generally have scopes instead of iron sights. For a hunting rifle I suppose it would depend on what you're hunting. For dangerous game that is likely to attack I would want to get off quick shots and quick follow up shots so I would go with the iron sights in that case.