Thread: Pleasantly surprised. Time to hunt with irons?

Originally Posted by ebf

Ben, sometimes new tech is not always better

With the Skinner sight you do not get the real "ghost ring" effect unless you unscrew the aperture and use the back ring wide open.

With my 80 year old No 4, when I use the battle sight, the rear sight completely disappears, and you simply focus on the front blade.

Agreed, although I admit my #4 I find the aperture a bit too big. The aperture on my AR was much better, but in that case the carbine length gas block meant the front sight was far too close to the aperture, losing the benefit of the long sight radius, and basically the front sight post looked so huge that any target of hare size was totally covered by the time it was about 50m away. This is what I was thinking about when I said some optics are better! There is a lot to be said for long sight radius aperture sights for farm pest control rifles, even the simple mini14 sights would be great for my purposes, compared to the irons on the AR.