Open sights or Telescopic sights?

Mirkin_321 · 9th Feb 2005, 12:03

Which do you prefer for general shooting?

Personally i enjoy using open sights more than i do using scopes (so i'm voting for open sights!), but my scope is so well zeroed now that i cannot bring myself to remove the scope!
I only switched to scope use when my Webley Hawk's rear sight broke off, and since then i have used scopes more than open sights until i got the HW90; where i enjoyed using the open sights for a few weeks whilst i looked for a decent 1-piece mount for the scope.

Ashley(welsh shooter) · 9th Feb 2005, 12:27

i picked telecopic sight as its much easier for me

mirkin? are you a pubic wig or something?

GreenMachine · 9th Feb 2005, 14:16

Its got to be a 'scope for me every time.
Further range, higher accuracy and lots less ponceing about ie: the eye/rearsight/foresight/target line-up.

The only minus I can think of is moisture on the outside of the lens.

SammoB · 9th Feb 2005, 14:23

Depends on what sort of shooting you're doing really, for a bit of plinking open sights are a fun challenge. A red dot can be handy when you need to let off a fast shot - i.e. ratting situations but as you've found yourself most of the time a decent scope is the only real choice.
As to what's more enjoyable - well, it comes down to whether you get more enjoyment from trying to hit something against all the odds or from actually hitting something. Hitting stuff does it for me

Mirkin_321 · 9th Feb 2005, 14:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashley(welsh shooter)

i picked telecopic sight as its much easier for me

mirkin? are you a pubic wig or something?

Yeah LOL - was my nickname at grammar school, i am short so they called me "mini mirkin" for a while and since then it has just become my nickname when with friends!

ÐØGMÁTÌX · 9th Feb 2005, 16:43

depends on the situ... rabbits I'll use tele's but rats or close work irons

Lez325 · 9th Feb 2005, 17:59

OPEN SIGHTS, what are they????

Les

Mirkin_321 · 9th Feb 2005, 18:25

LOL Les

By the way, i have got some more land now - a filled quarry adjacent to the one i already shoot on

Ran into the retired Doctor who owns that area of land and he was a friend of my now deceased Grandfather (they knew eachother very well are were both, doctor still is, into shooting with FAC guns as well as airguns). Anyway he said that if i would like to hunt rabbits i can use his field which is quite active with them apparently - should be fun! I'm gonna have a snoop around there tomorrow and see what i can get.

MacOne · 9th Feb 2005, 19:28

Scope for me...means I can actually see what I am shooting at due to being almost blind

Sparky · 9th Feb 2005, 19:36

To be honest don't see the point in open sites for hunting these days as if shooters are using them its something they should stick with not change to one day using a scope then another using open sights.

Pete