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 ...

XS Sights' XTI2 DXS Ember Standard Dot 45-Degree Offset Iron Sights for AR-15 rifles are a close-quarters, secondary sighting solution for rapid transition from a magnified primary optic. Eliminating ...

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 ...

This article, "Sight In Your Hunting Rifle," appeared originally in the May 2006 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page and select American Rifleman as ...

It is one of the most time-honored rituals for hunters and shooters: the sacred act of sighting in to zero a rifle. Different sportsmen go about this in different ways. Some use targets designed with ...

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