OK... I have to revisit the iron sights versus scope debate.

I am a STRONG proponent of scopes as I beleive they lead to more humane kills. Some people around my hunting circle have given me a hard time about this, but I will strongly defend my stance.

The nice part is I own most of my hunting land (250 acres in KY and 100 acres in Ohio). My rule is you use a scope unless you can hit an 8-inch pie plate at 75 yards with open sights. Some argue I am less "sporting" or that open sights provide more of a "challenge", etc.

So here is the story...

My father-in-law loves his inexpensive guns, you know the muzzleloaders with fixed iron sights, the unrifled shotgun barrel single shot with crappy adjustable sights, etc.

Anyway he can't hit the broad side of a barn with them. Misses about half the deer he shoots at and doesn't seem to get discouraged. But due to the conflict of interest (father-in-law) I let him avoid my "rule". Anyway I put up a stink this year when he tried to give one of his guns to a buddy of his on my land. I offered him my rifled scope gun, but my father-in-law already had gotten to him and convinced him unscoped, unrifled, never had a chance to shoot was the way to go...

Needless to say he missed his deer at 20 yards. Even worse he was shooting at a spike after I had gone into the whole quality deer management talk with them. My father-in-law said on the last day of the season you take what you can get, freezer meat. I stated that the only "Freezer" meat is a fat doe on my land, everything else should be a trophy.

What is your guys opinion on iron sights versus scopes?