Open sights

[ismith]

Any one else like using them still?

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

I've enjoyed using my 9.3 with open sights. Killed a couple critters with it that way.

 

[typhoon916]

On my smoke pole I im

 

[Rie Bread]

Shot my biggest deer with open sights. Probably killed more with open sights (.22) than anything else. Just got a vx6 so pretty stoked to replace the fixed 4x

 

[mevertsen]

My .30-30
Muzzle loaders
.22s
An AR15

 

[howl]

I prefer for fun on targets but not for deer, etc. I shoot too many when there's not enough ambient light to see without a scope.

 

[WildWill]

Dad's old model 94 30-30
3 muzzleloaders
M1 garand
And plenty of others I prefer to keep scopeless.

 

[Schutzhund]

Williams or Skinners ring rear sight and fiber or brass front dot ...loads of brush whitetails and groundhogs in Pennsylvania

 

[Schutzhund]

Super fast target acquisition. Can't beat open sights for quick and dirty work. If I'm not hunting with one, I always have one in the truck or cabin because it's thick where we hunt.

 

[Wolfshead]

I have a Williams foolproof peep on my Model 94.
It is what I like when hunting the thick woods and when it is snowing.
Don’t have to worry about snow filling the lenses of my scope, and it’s much quicker acquiring the target in the brush and thick stuff I like to still hunt through.
As far as last light shooting, my experience is that it is doable for me with the peeps for my situation.
This past season, on Dec 5th to be exact, I was hunting with my 85year old Father in-law, and my Brother in-law.
We put my Father In-law in a hut overlooking a nice funnel while my Brother in-law and I did our own thing.
I was still hunting down to the edge of a nearby swamp when I heard the report of my Father In-law’s rifle. My Brother In-law texted me soon after as he could not contact my FIL so we decided to meet at the hut.
My FIL was standing approximately 80 yards from the hut looking at the spot he shot his deer, so I walked over and saw a nice blood trail, and we started to track which wasn’t very long. This was about 4-4:30, and losing light very quickly.
Where I hunt we get to hunt to one half hour past sunset, and we had about ten minutes left when I saw a Doe come walking down the funnel where my FIL’s deer came from.
Using the open sights on my model 94 I was able to get a good enough sight picture that I was confident enough to be able to take an ethical shot on that Doe if I had chosen to. (I didn’t have a Doe tag)
Im 64, my eyes are not what they used to be, but I was able to see enough that, had I wanted to, I could have in that situation.
This is my experience, which is good enough for me, however, I’m not trying to convince/guide anyone, and they may do as they like.
So I guess that makes me an experienced participant whose never claimed to be an expert in anything…..

 

[noharleyyet]

A 45/70 Marlin JM from TBone is the only sans optics I own...have not fired yet.

https://flic.kr/p/2mHSPzB

 

[belshawelk]

On my one JM Marlin 338ME I have never mounted scope. But then she only sits in safe, after i shot her a couple times.

 

[MTTW]

I am going to try to kill something with one of these this season.

 

[ismith]

I am going to try to kill something with one of these this season.

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Someone loved that rifle and I’d bet it’s killed a bunch of elk! Have a back story on it?

 

[rjthehunter]

I'd like to find a 30/03 or 45/70 for hunting some of the heavily wooded areas I hunt in. Otherwise the only gun I own that isn't scoped is a bolt action .22

 

[TradeGun.62]

I have a Williams peep on my caplock muzzleloader and on my leverguns. They work great for aging eyes.

 

[kodiakisland]

On my lever actions and handguns.