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Iron sights seem to be an after-thought these days. It wasn't too long ago, however, when hunters were dependent on them. Scopes were a "new-fangled" item, neither very reliable nor very good. But as ...

I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...

I remember a time, long ago, when a veteran officer said to me, “You don’t need them night sights. Those glowing green dots will give you away. Stick with flat black steel. It’ll never let you down.” ...

Am I obsolete? Of course. I haven’t spent the night on an airport floor since January, 1982, courtesy of Delta. People of modern manufacture get to do it all the time. Are iron sights obsolete for ...