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I think apertures stink and avoid them.
I agree. I've used aperture sights for hunting on a couple of trips, and will never make that mistake again. I have enough trouble with them in strong light, and find them utterly useless in bad. The U and square notch stuff with a sourdough post are fine on the range, but if they're large enough to pick up quickly, they're too coarse to be of any use to me for serious hunting.
I agree 100% with the above..For fast work with a double I like the rear V-shaped with a smaller bead in the front--have tried many others but this seems to work the best for me.
Ripp
These posts are why these forums are really interesting to me.
While I myself generally agree with the first part and also have misgivings about apertures which I find great at the range but difficult to use in the field, I absolutely 100% disagree with these fellows in regards to the use of the notch and post/sourdough for field use. I find that setup to combine precision with speed and have used that and the bead enough on game and varmints sitting or running to know which works for me.
I never thought about the pistol issue. I pretty much live with a pistol on me and for many years I have shot a fair amount of pistol on varmints and livestock and they have similar sights. Is that the reason I like them? Maybe you guys are right!
Lesson learned here in this thread is that there are differences of preference. If I were a guy that had experience only with scoped rifles and was to buy a $20,000 double, I'd sure as shootin' want to get some experience with different sights in order to make sure the thing was sighted for me. A good idea for a prospective buyer might be to buy a cheap bolt rifle and shoot that with wide vee/bead, notch/sourdough, peep/bead and peep/sourdough. Might save a lot of heartache and some dough in the long run.
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