hunting with iron sights?

I know guys that shoot 600 yds with AR-15s without scopes. You should start out at 100 yds until you can get small groups. Then move out to 150 or 200 yds and shoot until you can get decent groups. Keep extending the range until it becomes likely that you would miss a coyote sized mass. That would be past you maximum range for coyotes. If you can get out to a decent range with a good probably of hitting a coyote sized mass, there is no reason that you would need a scope or any of the other crap your buddies have.

I know that reality is unpopular, but here is some anyway. An 8 inch paper plate is the size of a deer's vitals, and slightly bigger than a coyote's whole chest. How far away can you hit that paper plate QUICKLY and under field conditions standing on broken ground? Most hunters refuse to take this test because they are more comfy with their dreams. I am one of the best quick shots around, and I know that 75 yards on a loose deer with iron sights is getting chancy. If you have a very good blind with a built-in benchrest and the deer doesn't know it's being invited to stay for dinner, the range for regular open sights may well stretch to 150 yards, but that is already WAY chancy. A peepsight gives an additional ~30% effectiveness, at the expense of slow sight picture acquisition. The reality on calling in coyotes with a dying rabbit reed, is that you have only a few seconds to get the shot off before Wiley Coyote sees what's happening and becomes a bouncing ball of fur getting rapidly smaller zig-zagging away, and you settling into iron sights takes time you probably don't have on shots past 75 yards, and seldom are Coyote shots any closer. Low magnification scopes offer quick sight picture, and non-magnification red dot is fastest out to 100 yards, beyond which the red dot starts covering up the coyote too much. Long range shots with high-power scopes assume the Coyote isn't going anywhere, while you slowly settle into a next-county sniper shot, a contradiction in formats. Everybody has a story or two of some real or padded fabulous luck shot which at the campfire everyone revels in by proxy, and that is some of the best times hunting we will have, but let's get some accomplishments in the actual reality-driven hunting fields as well. Some say I cheat by handgun hunting, and jumping up lain-up bucks for a 30 yard combat-style confrontation. With spooked heavily hunted deer these days, I get lazy and go after them directly, clearly to my discredit.

Two questions for you. 1) How good are your eyes? Can you hit anything with the gun through iron sights. 2) How wooded is the area where you hunt? I'm in central texas, and here you can get a pretty good shot at a deer from a decent distance because the area is so open. You might not have that much open area where you live, so your target will be closer and thus, easier to hit without optical enhancement.

some of my guns only have ironsights, I use iron sights more than scopes.

but i don't have a nAR15. i heard the sights are very good, if that's true, then it should be easily done by an good shot.

the use of a scope is to make it easier to have precise aim on small targets or at long range. if you're a really good shot, you can just use ironsights instead of a scope.

I blew a rabbit in two at 300 meters with my '24 Mosin Nagant Dragoon rifle. (7.62x54r)

all that's left was a tail and the head, which i found 5 feet away.

i sighted a rabbit at 300m range, and wanted to see if i can hit it.

well at least it was a very humane kill, however messy it was.

if it can hi a rabbit at 300m with my mosin, then you should be able to hit a bigger and more visible coyote at 200m.

i use meters becasue most of my sights are graduated in meters. (except my two older mosins, which use arshini- i know arshini to meters but not to yards)

I agree with you, I love to keep it simple. For small game I use my 10/22 with just iron sites. The couple times I hunted coyotes I used my 870 slug barrel with Truglow sights. I got one the second time at about 80 yards. I know this isn't the proper tool, but its what I had. 200 yards is not only out of my guns range, but mine too. I just can't see that far. If you can then I would go with out.

Ar 15 Open Sights

I really don't like the term "iron sights." It fails to make the distinction between aperture sights and open sights. You have the former, and it's classified as an optical device, just like scopes. It works like a 1x scope. And how much magnification do you need at 150 yards?

Practice with the ammunition you will be using to hunt, and practice using the proper shooting techniques. If you can shoot, you'll be able to hit coyotes pretty consistently at 200 yards with an AR. I would rather have basic shooting skills than all of the high-tech toys in the world.

i don't have any optics on any guns and i kill game every year. Don't need optics to shoot 300 yards but they are nice.

Btw im getting a scope for my Big game rifle that im getting next , so im sorta conflicting. scopes are nice but to shoot animals at normal ranges you'll be fine with irons

if you can do it with iron sights your better then they are

and a AR15 is good for 300 meters with iron sights

the gadgets are bling and I need help to aim stuff