Here, NOT obsolete:

1) Super bad weather with sleet and heavy snow it's irons. Constant wiping of the scope lenses is a pain and in the woods shots are close and in the open close, too, under those conditions when you can't see very far anyhow.

2) For butcher stock shooting. Scope places the line of sight very high and it's best to look right down the barrel. We use irons exclusively for that and I've never seen a mobile butcher with a scoped rifle. Friday we put another couple ram lambs in the freezer and it'll be the same-old-same-old Paratrooper 94 that's the companion on the snare line, too where the same circumstances exist.