Hunting Deer with Iron Sights

We’re hunting Roe Deer in the snow, with the Highland Stalker Rife from John Rigby Gunmakers.
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[@CountydeerstalkingCoUk]

Thanks for your comments about 'back-stop' a crucial element to any safe stalk! However, as Baldrick Cocklin has already kindly pointed out, sadly we can not always get the cameraman in the same spot as the shooter and therefore a perfectly safe shot is not always portrayed by our camera angle.

[@tapanilofving4741]

I really hope that hunting with open sights will become the new trend, it is really a joy and a challenge. It is SO demanding and rewarding! :)

[@adoginacowboyhat8196]

I actually plan on using open sights! I feel like my scoped .270 is just too fragile, the lightest bump sets the scope off.

[@bandanimals3710]

@@adoginacowboyhat8196 Also it just... feels cooler to not use scopes, I don't know how to describe it.

[@MaxOrDieYT]

i just got a free Winchester with iron sights, even if i wanted a scope it would need to be side mounted.

[@easttexan2933]

I'm 76 years old so being "old school" is a given....that's why I can safely say the 7x57 is one of the world's greatest cartridges ever made. I just recently gave my Interarms Mark X (ten) in 7x57 to my grandson. Fantastic cartridge for deer and hog and most everything else here in the US. Fine a rifle as a man will ever hunt with. Thanks for sharing.

[@peterjones4442]

There speaks a man with experience! Thanks for watching and for your comment.

[@speakupriseup4549]

That is real hunting, 600m with a scope is just sniping with no bush craft required.

[@kevinmencer3782]

Still impressive, though.

[@asagrimmr1459]

I was told by my grand father that great hunters don't pride themselves on long distance shots but rather the long distance stalks.

[@garrettgrissom1274]

I’m so used to seeing larger deer here in America, with Whitetail bucks getting pretty big. It’s weird how big of a difference in size there are in different species of the same animal sometimes

[@Bigfhoot]

Great video. After much practice at the range getting comfortable shooting offhand iron sights. I’ve recently taken my first fallow deer at 50 meters. I did this with my model 92 rossi puma. 20 inch barrel 44 magnum. The confidence I now have had inspired many shooters I know young and experienced. Pays to be competent with basic gear and fundamental marksmanship.

[@peterjones4442]

Congratulations and thanks for the comment!

[@PHANTOMxHDz]

Get in another iron sight episode!!

[@paulsimmons5726]

When I was a teenager, most people still hunted with irons. Irons put the responsibility of "hunting" on the hunter, anyone can shoot a deer from 200yds or greater with virtually any modern rifle and scope combination but having the skills to get within a 100yds or better... well, that what separates the gun owners from the hunters. Great video! PS - Watching you guys maneuver through the snow while carrying that gorgeous Rigby, arghhh! Beautiful piece of workmanship but I'd have found an inexpensive matte/synthetic to crawl along with, not a handcrafted $10K rifle. I understand that's what the rifle was made for but still... That hurt my soul. LOL!

[@davidesaviane2249]

loved to see hunting with open sights!

[@amlanjyotisarmah1049]

Thats the way to hunt. You really become a hunter where your skills are put to test. Also your quarry gets a sporting chance.

[@tealforce1]

I have a variation on my ticket to allow me to hunt with my muzzle loader, as you would imagine it's equipped with open sights. I have been out a few times with it but must say the sight picture is not as good as I would like and you are 100% right about time of day Great video

[@tomslongguns443]

I love hunting with open sight, my old 8mm Mauser seems to always do the job, every deer I take has been with open sights, I've even out shoot other hunters when target shooting and they had scoped rifles.

[@Mcbignuts]

Great job guys

[@peterjones4442]

Thanks for watching.

[@lmj2783]

Great fun . I was up Scotland on Roe when the beast from the east came it and had massive success with 6 down on the ground.

[@curly01969]

nice looking Rigby!- excellent video

[@ZX6RIDER541]

I just shot my first deer with my father's Smith Corona 03 A3 with iron sights I hit the heart at 100 yards with plain iron sight is extremely accurate.

[@Peregrine369]

Beautiful shot and a gorgeous gun. Love from the U.S. You got a new sub :)

[@Westerner_]

I love that there’s not a stitch of camo to be found.

[@ckfvideo]

This is the kind of hunting that really appeals to me. Hope to try it one day. Greetings from Canada.

[@peterjones4442]

Many thanks! Come and give it a go one day!

[@gimmigota1]

That's a fantastic shooting. It's not as easy to place a shot with open sights that far as it seem in videos.

[@billcaddell3848]

I hunt with open sights for the same reason I hunt with a longbow. More enjoyable and more of a challenge.

[@jasonvogeli3840]

great video! thanks gents

[@polstierna4251]

Great to see hunting with Iron Sights! It really feels fundamental to learn this. And by the way. James jacket, what brand and model is it? Looks cool!

[@l.bdeerstalking5834]

Great to see you returning to the absolute basics. Keep up the great work guys

[@peterjones4442]

Thanks for watching....it was great fun.

[@l.bdeerstalking5834]

Peter Jones aye looks like great craic

[@l.bdeerstalking5834]

Peter Jones would love to give iron sights a go but just trying to get my KZbin channel off the ground at the moment

[@mountainmanmilitia3806]

Iron sights can be highly effective even out to 300 yards. I zero my 30-06 about 3in high at 50 yards. With that zero I can hold the lower 1/3 of a deers vital area and be within the vital area out to about 300 yards.

[@danebrewer10]

Brilliant stuff, really interesting to see you going back to basics!, along a similar vein, with the scopes of today and their massive zoom ranges and horrendous price, can you go far wrong with a small fixed 6 power of European manufacture? I think not....

[@Bouzoukiellas]

6 power is even excessive for 100 yards.

[@wolfie6075]

Nice shooting

[@MrChosenmarine]

very wholesome

[@richardkut3976]

Nice!

[@Millie.1965]

What jacket is James wearing? Looks like it works well in the cold.

[@joshs3905]

I thought this was more common and maybe I don't give myself enough credit, but I use iron sights all the time. Use buck shot or slug and have dropped deer up to 80 yards out. It's not hard, to be honest in some scenarios it's more practical than using scope

[@ryandarby2462]

nice hard rest for the rifle !

[@rosskeeling4459]

I noticed there were some buildings behind the animal when you shot it. I understand that it may have been the camera angle. Is that the case?

[@peterjones4442]

Thanks for your comment Ross - Sure is, as I have said before, the position of the cameraman is different to that of the shooter, added to which the buildings where in the region of half a kilometer away, with the shooter actually being presented with a very nice downward shot into plenty of clear soft earth. When stalking in populated areas like the south east of England backstop is always one of our primary concerns.

[@wolfmanrebel874]

To be honest i have only had the privilege of using a scope a few times, it's pretty much always irons for me and many others in these parts of the mountains,you just simply don't have many shots far enough to warrant the need if you know your rifle well. However, in the last 10 years I have seen a huge uptick in modern hunters using optics of various kinds around here, I guess I'm just stuck in my old ways but I'm not a typical hunter either I suppose I just try to keep my freezer full and food on the table aside from that I dont really go hunting.

[@baneofbanes]

A lot of hunting rifles don’t even come with iron sights anymore, which is a big contributor. And if you don’t want to use a scope there’s always the humble red dot sight.

[@stevendykstra5892]

Great shot, the rifle was bigger than the deer.

[@AW-hg3pc]

i am getting into hunting and i plan to get a cheapish local milsurp rifle (m39) because i feel like a more modern rifle with a scope could fail me on a -30(celsius) forest/mountain stalk. High chanse of knocking the scope around etc. I have no actual experience with this tho, anyone have any thoughts? id like a scope but i hear alot about how easily they get knocked off zero.

[@peterjones4442]

Hi A W. Depending on the distance that you will be shooting at, I would personally, invest in some good quality optics, provided you do that, a good scope shouldn't get knocked off zero and will be great for tough climates. Its the cheaper stuff that will invariable fail you. Buy once buy right.

[@Sierra_18]

Is it common for people to hunt with rifles with iron sights

[@baldrickcocklin6061]

Please enough histrionics about the backstop. Two points: 1. the camera angle is not the shooter's angle and as such will not give a true view as to the safety of the shot. 2. at 4:04 one can see the angle looks to be significantly downwards, and I expect there would have been ample backstop and no danger to the buildings visible in other parts of the film.

[@KentuckyFriedMichael540]

I know this guys grandfather🇫🇮

[@serenegreene6984]

.275 Rigby....... You Brit's Bet it doesn't say that on the ammo box. Great chambering though, perfect for deer. Use it myself in an FN 98.

[@Agri-WMH]

Lots of manufacturers have it printed as .275 Rigby for our market, maybe not others, same with the H&H calibres

[@Mex_the_Fox]

No ear protection? You guys seem to not like your hearing 😅 I'd flinch as hell!

[@jordanwyatt9610]

Is .30-06 too much for your game over there?

[@peterjones4442]

No, lots of people use the 30-06, its one of the most popular rounds for larger our species

[@arthurmcbride1235]

Take the front sight hood off the rifle. Its for protecting the front sight when traveling - you dont shoot with it on!

[@rupertmcnaughtdavis3649]

I find the hood concentrates the eye on the target.

[@OTT822]

That shot was quite dangerous....

[@jockebengtsson54]

A Nice film. But...what about the backdrop?

[@CountydeerstalkingCoUk]

Thanks for your comments about 'back-stop' a crucial element to any safe stalk! However, as Baldrick Cocklin has already kindly pointed out, sadly we can not always get the cameraman in the same spot as the shooter and therefore a perfectly safe shot is not always portrayed by our camera angle.

[@lewisclayton271]

you can tell he's shooting from an elevated position, and that the deer is below him

[@tiberiu_nicolae]

Yo are you guys shooting towards a building???????????

[@michaellong515]

NO BACKSTOP!!!!!

[@porkchopspapi5757]

I don't get it. Guys have been taking deer with iron sights for ever. At well over 100 yards. Your making it sound like you achieved something.

[@rupertmcnaughtdavis3649]

Agree 100%!

[@MrGrizzely]

Backstop ??

[@berkdeniz]

1:08 what happened to you ? eyes are red and he looks like he spent last 3 year in a trench war... :(

[@arthurmcbride1235]

These guys dont really know anything about hunting with open sights. It's like they think they invented it last Tuesday.

[@jordanwhite8259]

Ummm is it just me or did you guys just shoot the smallest fucking deer ever i mean come on you could have gottin somthing better than that

[@andrewrenwick6485]

It’s a roe deer for record, about the same size as a Labrador ( but lighter with long legs) for the record…..

[@db8359]

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