Thread: Open sights

Lets talk open sights.

Anyone hunt with them ? What distances ?

Other than the Skinner ones for Marlin, what are good aftermarket options ?

i have a winchester 30 30 trapper with open sights. great for sika in the manuka. last deer i got with it was bout 30 m. i quite like using open sights, rifle is lighter, and no scope to fog up. have never shot long range with open sights, most up to 100m max i spose. good thread.

Shot a lot of stuff with an open sighted SKS, 100m or less. Tech sights are meant to be good. Done a bit with AR open sights. Took my RRA upper out to 400 yds on a big steel gong, hits on tap, was pretty impressed. I can get about 3MOA at 200yds with my open sighted AK. When I was poor and in high school I used to shoot quite a few critters around the farm out to about 50yds with my open sighted Winchester 69A. Can be deadly when you get your eye in.

I've only shot one deer with open sights, my first stag at 10m with a old .303. I've used the open sights on the single shot Winchester .22l&lr but dont like them much.
Oh and a few goats with a SKS

Tx Beavis, those tech sights look like a good option for my Marlin 795, and they should fit the 3/8 dovetail on the Baikal as well

I prefer aperture sights over the other sort (can't remember their name). Aperture is way more instinctive.
I shot my first deer with an aperture sighted Jungle Carbine. My BSA Sportsman 15 has a Parker Hale aperture sight on it.

I use Buck Horn sights on my 1892 Winchester 25-20wcf adn skinner sights on my Rossi 92 44 mag

Both are surprisingly accurate over 100m the Buckhorn sights are good the Skinner Sight is even better





Cheers
Pete

Stug, might be different terminology, but I know the traditional ones as post & notch.

Then you get peep sights like the skinner and tech

Also ghost ring on HK MP5, very fast acquisition

Shot hundreds of thousands of rounds with open sights threw airrifle when a lad. 22 when a bit bigger mainly bunnys but the odd goat and deer.
Few goats and deer with 303
Then got a stuffed 308 with a scope and didn't look back until fairly recently i bought a rossi lever 44,didn't much like the sights on that to much gap in the notch for my liking.

Pretty much everything i ever shot with open sights was 100y or less.

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The buckhorns on my 94 30-30 are ok.
I way prefer the express sights on the .375, the shallow v is great for fast acquisition.
However the best Iron sights I have shot with for fast target aquisition was a ghost ring on my uncles .375, that is a different league for speed and you only have to put the front sight on your target.

c9 and gympie guns were open sights we were snap shooting using the open sights on our styers awsome fun c9 gun out to 500 600 m and gympie out past 1500m styer 50m snap shooting.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean Maori, eh Neckshot quite a bit of fun!

Aperture or peep sights work ok even at medium range. I remember my first center fire, a .303 No 4 had 300 and 600 yard flip over sights and used to bounce a piece of 4x2 around the paddock at approx 250 yards no problem 8 or 9 shots out of 10. Good fun out on the farm, not good on rabbits only found fur piles.

Open sights are under rated for close range and snap shooting in my opinion, but they can't compete with the holographic style sights.

Interesting, over here (Missouri) most people hunt with open sights due to the thick nature of the woods here. It is usually from a blind or tree stand. I have borrowed a 22 for squirrels and it has open sights but it is surprising what you can hit with them and at what range!! As tussock said you just have to trust them and not think too much..