The A-2 rifles and Designated Marksmen's M-14's do better. His people shoot head sized groups all day long at 500 meters (same distance as the battlesight setting on the '03) with M-4's. A buddy of mine, Air Force Captain Ken Hagenow, teaches marksmanship down at Ft. 'Half my men are dead, most of them shot between the eyes'. The supposedly apocryphal 'Devil Dog' letter is quite real. I suspect that, in the quarter mile head shooting that made up most of the first World War's trench fighting, that fine front blade would have been the nads. The 7mm Mauser did such a great job in South Africa against the Brits that everybody wanted something capable of dropping them like flies at 2,000 yards.ДЄctually, until 1917 it was the best rear sight in the world, if only because it was the only commonly issued peep sight in combat until then.ДЄnd again, the target shooter mystique gave, still gives, American soldiers a solid basis in long range marksmanship no other nation has, and far more range time to develop muscle memory with their weapon. Note the slide track sliding way over to the left to bring the little bugger back to line of sight. Interestingly, it's the only rear sight ever that compensated for the bullet's drift to the right (with a right hand rifling twist). The firearms are a combination of technology and tactics of the period in which they were designed. Urban combat was rare because urban environments were pretty rare as well. Just as the soldiers of the time would have commented how useless an M4 would be for volley fire at 1500 yards against enemy troops and the short barrel/bayonet a disadvantage when in trench fighting. For it's time and the type of tactics, it was quite effective. Your comments show an ignorance of the history around which the rifle was developed. The sights had nothing to do with target shooting as they are poor target sights, and were not the preferred type for Camp Perry at all. The reason for the extreme distances are that it allowed for this to happen multiple times before the enemy was within range to shoot in the manner you are envisioning.Д®very army used this type of sight or something close to it, as it was the best type of sight for the tactics of the period. This process was repeated with someone calling the range at which the enemy would be when the shot was fired. The call to set your sights to a distance, say 1200 yards, then a volley of shots ring out from every man in the trench sent a wall of bullets into oncoming troops. The reason for the sights are due to a totally different way of fighting when the sights were made.

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