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i think that your points are interesting but also a bit off target, service weapon were never the top of the food chain because they are allways massproduced, making a bead takes a lot longer than a post.
therefore are posts the order of the day when military rifles are made, thats not because they are the best but they are the best in the cheap department.

peep and post are a bit better, but no where near as good as peep wiht a cross or a T front but these fronts cost money so peep with post it is, or you can go out and buy it yourself.

money talks as allways.

the other part is about training, since a lot of people get there training in the army or the first gun is a surplus army gun, then people train with the cheap sights and get used to that sight picture alot before they get the money for the nice guns with the bead sights, and find them akward.

if you look at a lot of the early post sights most of them are filed into a point so they only need the bead to be right. and then they evolved into the square post.....not better but easy to make in a factory.

i dont mind normal target sights when i shoot bullseye contests, but when it is at shapes other than the round bull i go back to the bead and vee.

just my opinion.

peter