Until their eyes go bad. I bought myself an RRA ball gun as a retirement present, in 2007. I had to use an iris to get a good sharp front sight focus. In less than a year, I was at the iris' smallest aperture and still fuzzy.

The red dots fixed all of that.

Of course, the nearest real organized BE competition is a four hour drive away. I envy you guys with active, local Conventional Pistol venues. Plenty of snap'n'giggle activity around here, but it soon gets depressing since most of those matches are more of a track meet than a shooting event... and the days of me being competitive in that sort of thing are long gone...

Beautiful brace of revolvers, cprher.

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