Is this a stupid idea?

Many years ago, my good friend and hunting partner was the fixed base operator at a small town airport. The runways were over run with hundreds of jack rabbits and pilots were complaining, especially at night fearing damage to the landing gear of their aircraft. I another hunting buddy and I joined up with him to clear out the rabbits. Both their .22's had iron sights and I had the only scoped rifle, a Remington Nylon 66 with a cheap Weaver .22 scope. Those rabbits soon learned to stay out of the headlights of the truck but would stay at the very fringe. To say that I probably got 10 shots to their one would be understatement. Even that el cheapo scope would gather enough light to make hits easier. If you want iron sights as a back up system or just for plain esthetics go for it but for serious shooting, get a scope.
Paul B.
 
Just because you don't doesn't mean you won't. I don't hunt pronghorn or elk but I want to.

For a long time I said I didn't need a semi auto rifle and then I stumbled on a SKS with scope and 400 rounds of ammo for $200 in July and I won't say I need it but at the range it is fun to shoot this cheap gun.

Things change.
 
if you're not expecting to shoot more than 100 yards a scope is more of a hindrance than help. if you feel more comfortable with irons and are willing to pay the price then that is probably the best option, it's still cheaper than a decent scope anyway.
 
I'm hard pressed to think of a reason to have a .22-250 without a scope...your Axis is a .22-250, isnt it?

Irons too, if you want, but not instead of a scope. For $150-200 you can have a "good enough" scope...it'll be more than twice the value of the irons IMO.
 
If I were to go with iron sights, I'd pay a local smith to drill the holes and mount a Lyman or Williams peep on the rear.

I wish I had tried peeps 30 years sooner. Putting an old Redfield peep on my 94 Win made it into a whole new rifle. My groups shrunk by 2/3 at least... When I decided to get a .45-70, I mounted a Williams peep before I fired the first round...

Scopes a great too but there not the only answer...

Tony
 
Use irons if you like. I've used them with good results on prairie dogs up to 400 yards or so. An aperture rear and narrow post or aperture front is best for accuracy.

If your vision is good, you'll do just fine.
 
Peep sights are fine in bright light, but will lose you a lot of hunting time both early and late compared to even a budget priced scope
 
Isn't a stupid idea, but a lot depends on what iron sight they put on. Factory irons are usually crappy. Too small and not peeps.
"...SKS with scope..." Scoping a carbine is a waste of time and money.
 
Scoping a carbine is a waste of time and money.
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People scope K-31's with clamp on mounts all the time. And get every bit of accuracy out of them. So much that they shoot better than a lot of commercial rifles. And it is a carbine.
 
Scoping a carbine is a waste of time and money.
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really? I've scoped 10/22s mminute of squirrel at 200 yards, I have a scoped AR15 carbine, minute of dead deer at 225. I've scoped a few other carbines in various calibers, never have had problems. as far as I'm concerned there was no waste of time and money there. to each their own.
 
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If you want to do it this may be one of the sensible ways to do it.

Is your Mom going to pay for this, barrel change in ant Savage system rifle is almost as easy as industry can make it. Not a quick switch barrel, but the next best thing.

As far as optics are concerned, I have been shooting all my life, my father was career military. He did three tours in Nam the 1st in 64, I was 12. He din't come home from tour three.

He was the top NCO in his battalion and had keys to the arns room, bivouac area, and loved to take me to waste Gov't ammo. When I was 13 we would go to Point Magu, on a Sunday with a M-14, M-16 and a 1911 and shoot. How many 13 YO's get to shoot arsenal arms?

My father came home one day, in our '58 chevy wagon dragging the back bumper. He had somehow aquired 10,000 rounds of 30-06 scheduled for disassembly, loose in od ammo cans. Ball, tracer and AP all mixed up. He then bought an Interarms MKX 30-06. Then an economy arm. I learned to shoot centerfire on that MKX. No scope and after practice, I could bust a sheetrock bucket nearly every time at 200yds.

I bought my first scope in 1975 after deros, and put it a K-6 Weaver on a m 360, then a 7mag Rem 700.

Shooting with iron sights will certainly not deminish your shooting skill, it does diminissh your at once satisfaction of more certain bullet placent.

You need to divert some of this firearm acquisition into a bad ride and a hot babe! You have rifles, you feel like you can correct shooters old enough to be your grandfathers, you need the best testosterone thrill of all, a case of nerves, and the need for birth control. Mo.
 
IMHO, no rifle is complete without iron sights.....

First thing I do on any rifle is make sure it has good iron sights.

John
 
I don't get calling a K31 a carbine. Mine is as long as most of my other rifles and longer than the rest... I wish my K31 had a peep sight but I'm not crazy about the idea to modify it to take one.

Tony
 
the K in K31 stands for Karabiner(or carbine to us Mericans). it is a carbine in the sense that it's a shortened version of the M11 scmidt-rubin rifles(shorting the barrel from 31 inches to 23 inches). by today's standards it is not what most consider a carbine because now we consider rifle length barrels to be 20-24" and carbine barrels 14-16" but the concept is the same. the M4 carbine is a shortened M16 rifle, same is true of the K31. personally I do not believe the K31 can be called a carbine due to the fact that it is comparable in length to most service rifles of the era but in all technicality, it is a carbine.
 
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carabinier is actually french for "guy who serves in the military carrying a carbine." I kind of wonder if the carabiner clip was named as such because of similarity to the gear carried on a carbine.:confused:

Gotta love words.

I like iron sights too. I truly love peeps. That said, I have almost always taken off irons when mounting a scope. I have several rifles that I will not scope, but even my .22 bolt has a centerfire grade 3x9 scope on it, because I love to shoot it at 100 yards.
 
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