I like a rifle just with open sights for practical carry and aesthetics reasons but for many of us eyesight dictates the need for some other sighting arrangement. Being shortsighted I need glasses for clarity of the area forward of front sights and no glasses for clarity of the open sights. The EER scope I have on my 404 now and the red dot sight I had previously both solved the eye sight issue.

As to aesthetics, probably because I'm used to scopes, a scope or scope type red dot sight as the Single Point sight was, look okay to me on a rifle even when mounted in the forward or so called scout position. The modern red dot sight with some form of a raised screen do look out of place on bolt guns and more so on doubles. However that is just my own opinion, others will see it differently and practically.

The beauty in some ways of the mounting system I installed on my Mauser 404, a U profile Weaver bridge mounted from the front receiver ring to the rear of the safari sight is that the open sights are still perfectly useable with scope removed and a red dot sight with Weaver or Picatinny QD mounting can be swapped over in place of the EER scope i.e. I have 3 sighting options readily available in the field. My original Single Point red dot was an 1" tube size using the same Weaver rings I now have the Leupold 2x scope in.