06-12-2011, 05:21 PM
I continue to vacillate over the need for back up iron sights or not. On the one hand, they could prove useful if the scope goes down. However, I have only had one scope ever die on me, and that was because it was a cheap scope mounted on a 300 Win mag, so I feel like I deserved that failure. Since going to the Leupold Mark 4's and Redfield 2-7 for my close range Grendel, I haven't had any problems.
I guess my feeling is that I could prepare for all sorts of contingencies, and even wear a personal flotation device in case I fall in deep water, and carry a fire extinguisher in case of personal spontaneous combustion. But those are pretty far fetched...as is the probability of my scope failing.
But I don't have any issue with other people buying back up iron sights. Some of the back up irons are quite good sighting systems, and would even be useful as a primary sighting system. The primary benefit of those would be that because they fold up and would therefore be less likely to snag on things, they could be folded out of the way for a parachute jump, or usef for storage in a tight space, then deployed when needed.
Mighty fine looking rifle you built...I like the quality of components and thought you put into it.
I guess my feeling is that I could prepare for all sorts of contingencies, and even wear a personal flotation device in case I fall in deep water, and carry a fire extinguisher in case of personal spontaneous combustion. But those are pretty far fetched...as is the probability of my scope failing.
But I don't have any issue with other people buying back up iron sights. Some of the back up irons are quite good sighting systems, and would even be useful as a primary sighting system. The primary benefit of those would be that because they fold up and would therefore be less likely to snag on things, they could be folded out of the way for a parachute jump, or usef for storage in a tight space, then deployed when needed.
Mighty fine looking rifle you built...I like the quality of components and thought you put into it.