Your guns are going to fail

[Averageman]

At close range, where most self defense situations occur, I think you'd be surprised how well you can actually do without any sights at all on both pistol and rifle.

My Grandfather was a Sherrif in Western New Mexico, he had a peach basket full of old SA revolvers, he taught me how to do that.
The only thing I can equate it to is throwing a baseball. The more you practise the better you'll get and it's not much of a learning curve.
Eventually I was knocking tin cans off of the fence a little over 50% of the time from like 15 feet.

[mRad]

I once made a 300 yard shot in a milk jug with a bolt-action .243 without sights or optics. It still had the scope tap plugs. I lined them up where they were level and covering the top of the jug. First round hit! Only reason I tried was my friend had a single-shot rifle and had tried the round in his gun three times but it wouldn’t ignite the round, he asked me to shoot it in my rifle so he could have the brass.


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[Esq.]

At close range, where most self defense situations occur, I think you'd be surprised how well you can actually do without any sights at all on both pistol and rifle.

I once scored a perfect 250 on the Texas CHL course of fire (not hard) when on the 3rd round of the test the front sight of my 1911 departed for greener pastures. I simply lined up the rear of the slide on the target etc...and worked the trigger. It was easy actually until I got to 15 yards- that required serious concentration but thankfully you only shoot 10 rounds at that distance.

[The Dumb Gun Collector]

really like my Eos, but I don't think I could run a rifle without BUIS.

It's crazy. They don't even add that much to the gun.

I am a huge red-dot fan on rifles, because most of them (Aimpoint, etc) have been tested to death and run for 5 years or more on one battery. On pistols though, it seems like there is always something fiddly going on with red dots (although they are a joy at 30 plus yards)

[SteyrAUG]

It's crazy. They don't even add that much to the gun.

I am a huge red-dot fan on rifles, because most of them (Aimpoint, etc) have been tested to death and run for 5 years or more on one battery. On pistols though, it seems like there is always something fiddly going on with red dots (although they are a joy at 30 plus yards)

I think red dots on handguns are still in the developmental stage and we haven't yet reached a final configuration. I can understand why stage runners like them but I don't know if they are the new/next for carry guns yet.

[Averageman]

I zero my irons, then apply the red dot to the top of the front sight post then refine from there, it's alway worked for me.

[T2C]

Equipment breaks, humans break.

Be prepared to work through it.

[17K]

Even the mighty Glock 17 can fail.

I bought a new Gen5 17 the other day and it would not fully reset. Super dangerous situation as it would reset enough to cock the striker but not enough to set the trigger safety. It was in a condition of being able to be fired, but not drop safe.

I had a extra set of receiver parts that I swapped in and it’s fine now.