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 ...

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 ...

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I’m not sure at what age I first acquired a BB-gun, but I used it to learn how to shoot iron sights at a young age. I went through BB’s by the carton, and this practice as a child certainly helped my ...