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Parashooter wrote:

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Sadly, many hunting mishaps do occur due to target mis-identification. No matter how good our vision is, a scope enhances it, especially in dim light. If we can afford a rifle and ammunition, we can afford a scope. We get no extra "macho points" for limiting ourselves to iron sights in the field and all the bragging we might do about clean kills with irons fades quickly after just one mistake. (I'll never forget an incident 50 years ago when a friend who thought he was shooting a woodchuck in the garden killed his own gray-brown tabby.

Again, your points about the enhancing qualities of glass are as obvious as your noting the reality of hunting mishaps, which, I'll wager, occur with scoped firearms as much as not . I don't think anybody's seriously talking "macho points" and "bragging" rights here, but rather, merely suggesting that safe and ethical hunting with a stock K31 versus a sporterized K31 is more than possible, despite your suggestions to the contrary (cows, brothers-in-law, hunting mishap comments, etc). More than several posters have opined that to scope or not is a personal decision of the individual that warrants no criticism either way. Whatever works: a stock K31 would work for me, so be it for me.