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Kraig, a friend of mine (a Service Rifle NRA High Master) told me about this proposed optics rule and my first impulse was dismay that they are changing the game, but he made two good points.
The first was that most Service Rifle shooters these days are old, like us. Yes we have some real good youngsters, but by and large the young people go for F-Class or "action" gun games like 3-gun, not Service Rifle. As we age our eyes go bad, but maybe our basic shooting skills are still good.
The second was that he has cataracts and something wrong with a retina, he can shoot real well with a scope but his iron sight scores have fallen off with his eyesight, and it should be a shooting contest, not a seeing contest. I know every bad shot I shoot is because of trigger control, not vision. So if he can continue to shoot the kind of (High Master) scores he has been shooting for years, but it takes using a scope to make up for his failing eyes, why not?
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