Born in 1955 here

by Bob Hatfield , Saturday, July 30, 2016, 12:13 (2976 days ago) @ Byron

Too young for Vietnam. Even being 18 in 73 and if I was GI I would have to have been "Special" to be there by the pullout in April of 75 and I dang sure wasn't special LOL.

I like the AR platform. The pragmatist in me tells me its all I need except for a 22 rifle, shotgun, 38 revolver and a Glock 17.

I have a few of the evil things but my favorite is a carbine put together from parts of 5 or 6 manufacturers. I have never liked optics and always prided myself on my ability to place the little bullets somewhere in the black of a bulls eye. Either with a flintlock or an AR. Small itty bitty groups are fine but the pragmatist in my tells me if I can place all of my shots in the black of a standard 100 yard target (six inch black blob)I am ok with it. I like ringing the gongs at each placement out to 500 yards offhand. Don't always hit them but hit them enough that I'm satisfied with my accuracy.

I always thought that as long as your shots are tight enough to what the front sight post would subtend at whatever distance you are shooting at then that is all the accuracy you need. If the front sight post covers the bull at 100 then all the shots should be in the bull.

But I struggle with the sight picture and will probably go with an Eotech or Aimpoint PRO to keep from having to strain and squint through my progressive lenses to find that perfect sight picture I still get from time to time. That little dot is looking better all the time.

Bob