Does anyone still use open sights?!

[craig9mm]

blimey 1 inch at 30 yards...if only I could do that
I like iron sights on my HW30, please advise an aperture rear sight
Do you still keep the HW front sight?

thank you

[Hsing-ee]

blimey 1 inch at 30 yards...if only I could do that
I like iron sights on my HW30, please advise an aperture rear sight
Do you still keep the HW front sight?

thank you

Yes, I use the interchangeable foresight with the square post element, and a Williams/Beeman Sport aperture. This is in good light with an aim-point under the black on a 1" aiming mark at 30 yards.

[Joncaddy]

44 guns, 25 of which are rifles. Only 3 have scopes. I have a few spare scopes but no guns i want to put them on to. My interest is collecting and simple plinking, which I find more enjoyable with open sights.

[Shed tuner]

I enjoy opens, but my eyesight is losing some sharpness, and peepsights are defo easier to use now. I find thin tapered foresights especially tricky - e.g. my BSA "L"... whereas the wide, flat FWB sport foresight is great.

Got a couple of PCPs with opens too - a Sumatra and a Career - great fast fire lever action fun, which just needs to be done with opens.

[gingernut]

I usually start a session at the range with an open sighted rifle.

Then move on to pistols.

When I am tired I sit down and use a scoped pcp.

I feel much more connected to guns without scopes.

I bought a Career last year and took off the silencer and scope it came with, which returned it to what it should be ,as Shed says.

[Shed tuner]

I bought a Career last year and took off the silencer and scope it came with, which returned it to what it should be ,as Shed says.

yeah, silencers are the last thing you want - need some noise

[Fronteria]

Most of my Air Rifles cannot have a scope fitted on them like my first batch L.J rifle No. 1319 although I have quite a few modern air rifles that do have scopes.