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Buy a new rifle today and you may very well find it outfitted with iron sights. All my short- to medium-range rifles are iron-sighted. But not those long-range rascals. They wear scope sights. You bet.

IRON RIFLE SIGHTS OVER TIME

In the late 19th century, as an 1895 catalog reveals, all Winchester Models 1873, 1875, 1886, plus .22s and the Winchester Single Shot, came with open iron sights. Likewise Marlin’s Model 1891 and 1893. In the 1920s, open irons continued to rule. Same in the ‘30s. By 1940, the Model 70 Winchester could be purchased with Lyman 48WJS and 57W micrometer receiver sights, the Model 71 with optional 98A peep. The Model 94 continued with open irons.

The standard Savage 99 wore open iron sights in this time frame, while the 99K had a tang peep, the 99-RS a Lyman aperture sight. Marlin’s 36, forerunner of today’s 336, came with open irons in the ‘40s. Today, Marlin lever-actions continue with factory open iron sights, as does the Browning’s Lightning, while Remington, Winchester, Savage, and Ruger offer both open and aperture sights, factory-wise. And sometimes scope-ready, too, with no sights at all.