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 ...

Iron sights seem to be an after-thought these days. It wasn't too long ago, however, when hunters were dependent on them. Scopes were a "new-fangled" item, neither very reliable nor very good. But as ...