Finn Aagaard was also a proponent of the low power optical sight on DG rifles. It was his opinion that they were as fast or faster than an open sight rifle.

I cannot give my personal slant on this as I am not an experienced DG hunter. I do love irons but I am finding more and more scopes on my rifles now. Even my big bores.

Ray Atkinson influenced my rifle set-ups with regard to having BOTH types of sights on each rifle. A good scope on quality QD mounts with a good quality set of irons to back it up.

Nearly all my rifles now have this ability. I offer my thanks to Ray for his wisdom and the dramatic depletion of funds in my checking account