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 ...

XS Sights' XTI2 DXS Ember Standard Dot 45-Degree Offset Iron Sights for AR-15 rifles are a close-quarters, secondary sighting solution for rapid transition from a magnified primary optic. Eliminating ...

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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 ...

Elbit Systems has developed a new AI-powered rifle scope called the Assault Rifle Combat Application System (ARCAS) that turns a soldier's assault rifle into a portable combat information center, as ...

Key Point: The T3x has better iron-sites than any rifle on the market today. While bolt action rifles have been supplanted in most roles by semi-automatics, they remain solid choices for people who ...

For the first time in three years, Army recruits will have to pass a marksmanship test during basic training using only the backup iron sights for the M16 rifles and M4 carbines, officials said. “The ...