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When it comes to shoot at longer range or when you have to shoot under poor conditions, for example under poor light conditions or in the dense bush, a scope is already an advantage and should no longer be missed nowadays. That's why nowadays you should not work without the technology if this is available. For these reasons I also have a scope on my rifles caliber 460 WBY-Magnum and 500 Schüler. It's about hunting and shooting game under the best conditions, and not just about demonstrating your skills.

As far as the use of weapons without iron sights is concerned, as it is very often or almost exclusively the case nowadays, hunters have to consider that carefully. If, under special circumstances, you need to shoot game at short range, iron sights are often very advantageous. For these reasons, it is a must for a hunter in Africa to always use a weapon that also has iron sights, be it in all cases when hunting big game, but even if you are just hunting plain game, because you can also encounter something dangerous. Defending yourself against an attack without iron sights is a very uncertain and dangerous matter.

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A reason good QD mounts are standard for most scoped DG rifles.

I question how many people with scoped DG rifles have ever used the rifle's open sights?

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A reason good QD mounts are standard for most scoped DG rifles.

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As far as a good scope mount is concerned, on the scope of my rifle caliber 500 Schüler you can see the traces of what due to the recoil happens when a scope is not particularly solidly anchored. The gunsmith built the weapon very nicely, but when it came to scope, he did not take a few practical points into account. A few tries were necessary on my part and three scope mounts before I found the right one.

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At the eye doc right now. I only have reading glasses and rarely use them. Last time 6-6 or 20-20 vision. Hopefully still.

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Still good. Eighteen months before the next appointment.

Acscooevos certainly useful for lesser light, dawn, dusk, night, Shooting in a foresr or a herd, a scope is very useful.

Lots of different people, lots of different hunting scenarios, places, types of game. I think hunting a sambar is far different to stand hunting a whitetail. Or hunting a boar from a hochsitz at midnight.

Of course asking this question on the NE forums gets very different answers than some plastic rifle "tactical" forum or one saturated with Creedmoor buyers.

On some of those forums, the guys probably don't know how to use open sights.

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Everything you say is correct, grandveneur, however I hold same as John, new shooters should be taught to shoot open sights - first.
An air rifle is very good for this 'early' teaching.

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Hunting is a sport not work.

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At the eye doc right now. I only have reading glasses and rarely use them. Last time 6-6 or 20-20 vision. Hopefully still.

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