yeah that's how my dad is doe dumper. i told him that i had the sights taken off my new rem 700 30-06 to put the scope on there ... they i got the whole earful about how one day i would wish i had the open sights. even after i explained the fact that i wanted accuracy at longer ranges with a good cheekweld and line of sight. and how i wasn't planning on hunting with it in a place where i would have much of a chance at having close range shots .......so i wouldn't need the sights. but he still thinks i should go back and have the sights put back on and have the see throughs put on.

My thoughts exactly.

I would rather leave my sights on and would go with higher rings and mounts to do so. However in 48 years or so of hunting, I have never had a scope fail me on a hunt. I have had to remove my sights when I needed to mount a scope Now and didn't have higher rings at the time. I know many remove the sights just because they like the looks of the rifle better without the sights sticking up. I like to have the sights just in case I would need them but thats a matter of opinion and its not because I am afraid my scope might fail me.

Like they say though, this months gun expert at Walmart may have been last months shoe expert.

how 'bout, "they're dumber than a broke brick"

Sorry. I was an English teacher in a previous life. LOL

Since we're being nit-picky here, then shouldn't "knowdgle" be "knowledge"?

Most popular word out of a clerk at the "sporting goods" counter at Wal-Mart.............................."HUH?"

Uncle Matt (in IL)

eyme knot bieng knit pcky, jst kiddn arond. figgered "knowdgle" wus a typo. kencderin the context, "there" wus funny

Our local Walmart gun guy is pretty good.

It realy aint their fault,for some it is not their bowl of cheerios.
I know what they are going through.
When I graduatted high school,I went to working construction,well I got laid off come fall and I needed a job so I applied at Mongomery Wards,and they put me in the paint department,now I know colors like red,blue,black, white and so on.Now come to mixing paint to be some color I sucked,ruined many a gallon of paint,so they put me in Drapperies and curtains,now I was realy lost.
But you ask me what was the best place to fish on the Missouri,or where the goose hunting was hot,or what's the best bullet weight for a 30-06 when you are going elk hunting.I could have spit those out with out even thinking.
So it realy not their fault,they are just getting a pay check like everyone else.
But some brains about it would be nice.
BBJ

When I bought my NEF at Walmart, I had to order it, so the sporting goods manager helped me out. He was a competitive skeet/trap shooter. Even so, he knew very little about rifles -- but at least he didn't pretend to know. He admitted he didn't know a lot and worked with me on the whole process.