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Cazadero
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Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?
30/05/14 11:25 AM

I learned to shoot as a kid with a scope. That was what you did. You could shoot with open sites but obviously your accuracy was greatly improved with a scope.

Time goes on. Graduate College. Earn more money. Buy nicer things, including accessories for hunting like scopes.

But when I first went to Africa in 2006 and I stood next to a herd of buffalo as the sun was going down I realized (partly) what I had been missing.

When I got back to Texas I found myself hunting that fall with my model 94 with a ghost ring. I got within 20 yards of a wild hog before he ran off.

We took it further when I went back for Buffalo in 2008 and from then on I vowed no more herds, we only hunted dugga boys, but the point remains the same, IMHO, if you really want to experience hunting, then you've got to work to get close.

I succumbed to the reading glasses at around 46. At 48 (this year) I bought a pair of Costas [sun glasses] with readers built in because I can't see anything up close anymore, (like my phone) but at a distance fortunately, I'm fine.

As long as I can, I'll hunt with open sites. When I can't do that, I'll stop.

Till then, the see-through site on my double remains my favorite. I like the ghost ring too, but I'm having a custom see-through "V" made for my Ruger No. 1.

To each his own.

Good Hunting all.

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Open sight rifle shooting distances?	NitroX	27/05/14 11:13 PM
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Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	NitroX	29/05/14 03:35 PM
Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	xausa	30/05/14 12:51 AM
Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	NitroX	30/05/14 02:11 PM
Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	NitroX	30/05/14 02:14 PM
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Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	Claydog	30/05/14 02:30 PM
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Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	DarylS	03/07/14 01:35 PM
Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	Ripp	03/07/14 10:11 PM
Re: Open sight rifle shooting distances?	Nick_Adams	09/07/14 05:44 AM
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