I actually have two .22s. One is my grandpa (or great-grandpa perhaps) that is open sights and my dad wouldn't put a scope on it. Don't blame him for that. The other one, which is mine. I shot with open sights for the longest time. I have no idea how i managed to do this but i lost both sights (probably from removing and cleaning them) so i put a scope on there. I think either way its fun to shoot. I took off the scope one time and shot by just looking down the barrel; Didn't work too well