I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...

I’m not sure at what age I first acquired a BB-gun, but I used it to learn how to shoot iron sights at a young age. I went through BB’s by the carton, and this practice as a child certainly helped my ...

Am I obsolete? Of course. I haven’t spent the night on an airport floor since January, 1982, courtesy of Delta. People of modern manufacture get to do it all the time. Are iron sights obsolete for ...

This month I got to test XS Sights XTI2 sights, a set of rail-mounted offset sight system designed to augment a carbine equipped with optics. When I first went to test this, I thought, “It’s not ...

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I remember a time, long ago, when a veteran officer said to me, “You don’t need them night sights. Those glowing green dots will give you away. Stick with flat black steel. It’ll never let you down.” ...