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So everyone should immediately abandon the glass sight and go iron? Not in a millennium! The premier sight of all times is the scope. My PH rifle for Africa, a Marlin .45-70 with big bullets going faster than the old warhorse’s originators imagined in their wildest dreams, wears a Leupold 1.75-6X scope. My Marlin XLR .35 Remington is dressed with the same glass sight. My Morrison .30-06 is graced with the super high-tech Swarovski X6i 2X-12X with lighted reticule. I go iron for only four reasons, but they are good ones. First is the challenge. I have to get a little closer to that buck, bull, or boar with irons. (It’s called stalking.) Second is success. In those wonderful whitetail haunts where the shot normally comes no farther than three first downs to boot toe, the simpler iron sight works just fine. Third is appropriateness. My lever-action carbines wear iron sights that promote fast-handling at brush and timber ranges. Fourth is maintaining the simple lines of simple rifles, especially those “cowboy” lever actions.