I used to put them on all my AR's too. Then one day I actually used them when my red dot went down--wasn't even close to POA even though I had carefully zeroed it when I installed it. Just my armchair opinion, but if it's not metal and up full-time cowitnessed with your optic--it' a toss of the dice (with bad odds) if you need to fail-over immediately with reasonable accuracy. An independently sighted off-set optic is something else altogether.
Mine came with a standard AR front sight and a Magpul flip up rear. I sighted in the irons with the red dot installed but turned off. I did not go back and try the irons again after that. I will have to see where it hits with the irons the next time I take it out. It may be that adjusting the red dot makes the irons off but frankly even if it does I don't see how sighting through the red dot would make them off if they were sighted in through the red dot after the red dot was sighted in. I may be entirely off base here but I'll find out.
Stag said:
I'm all for having them too--but just my experience--the winky-dink plastic fold downs are significantly less accurate than a good metal set up full time. My line of reasoning is if it's crucial enough to have them for quick fail-over--might as well have a good set-up. No biggie, maybe I'm just not skilled enough to use the plastic pop-up tabs--they could be useful as miniature catapults.
