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Thread: Comfortable using MRO w/ no BUIS on HD gun?

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    I generally find the same argument against BUIS and Pistol Night Sights on this forum to be:

    "You don't need them because I've never needed them."

    Even in the face of those of us that have needed them, the argument continues to be:

    "I've never needed them, so your experience is an anomaly."

    I find that to be asinine, but I cannot force anyone to do anything, so unless you work with me, it makes no difference to me.

    While I did have a Comp M5 break, I have owned 10+ Aimpoint Micros (H1-T2) that have been ultra reliable. Their batteries have not been so, as is to be expected. Batteries can die at any moment, both on your light and your optic. What is your back up plan?

    But hey, "I've never needed them, so neither will you." is an argument that I'm sure they won't regret in the dark....

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    Don't need sights (if you are well trained).


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    Quote Originally Posted by mebiuspower View Post
    Don't need sights (if you are well trained).

    I can't read your sarcasm here. Are you really advocating this for a gunfight?

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    The only guns I don't have BUIS on are two hunting AR's with regular scopes on them. The others all have BUIS and will always have them. There is the off chance that batteries will die or something will happen to my RDS. I have T1's and T2's on my other rifles and I'm not worried about their ruggedness but batteries are always an issue. I typically change them out every year regardless.
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    In sporting clay shooting sights are way down on the list of what you need to be competitive. There are very few targets where you are aiming at anything. You are shooting at the place where the target will be when the shot gets there. If looking for a clean sight picture inside of 20-25 feet you aren't winning many IPSC matches. Same thing inside a house. Good sight pictures take to much time. I have BUIS on my house gun but cannot think of any situation indoors where I would deploy them. Dead battery included.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mebiuspower View Post
    It's part of muscle memory. If you talk to any decent USPSA shooter they're basically not using sights for 5-10 yard shots...

    I also spoke to Dania Vizzi who is a world champion skeet shooter. She doesn't have sights on her shotgun...

    I don’t think that shotguns are the best example here. If you are aiming a shotgun for clay shooting you are going to miss a lot of them. I was luckY to get some skeet lessons 15 years ago from a sponsored shooter at my old club. First thing he said to me was “you aim pistols and rifles but you point a shotgun”.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TexasAggie2005 View Post
    That seem odd. All of mine have easily been ~1yr on setting 4. I don't know if they last longer than a year to be honest, as I change them out on Aug 1st regardless.
    It been a little over a year since I changed the battery and it is still going.
    Maybe I got a couple of bad batteries.

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    I'm a bit odd and long-on-building-short-on-actual-shooting, but if your eye and brain allow it would seem to me that one would want a consistent sight picture and muscle memory between BUIS and iron to reinforce that "whether point for snap-shot, optic or iron, this is what you will see and feel when in firing position no matter what."
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    Backup irons just make sense on an RDS or HWS rifle or similar firearm. Small, light, not expensive, generally placed far away from the optic itself so there's no contesting the rail space, and the irons can of course easily be used with the primary optic in place. Check for the dot when you deploy the firearm, if it's not there, flip up the iron(s).

    I also couldn't follow what the poster previously was trying to say, seriously or sarcastically, while referencing Cowan...but agree with the one(s) who said that sloppy looking 90 without sights could probably have been a tight professional looking 100 with sights.

    Could always double up the RDS with an offset RMR type for the same weight as BUIS, they aren't solely for magnified guns

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    I used to adamant about a FSP and a buis on every AR.

    After over a decade of never needing the buis I decided to forgo them when I went to 1.93” Aimpoint mounts.

    They’re not useable with the optic on the gun, my eyesight is not quite good enough for irons anymore, and my range time is better spent training with what I’m actually going to use.

    That’s just me.

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