Iron sights

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An iron sight is an external feature of a blaster that aids the user in aiming. Many blasters have built-in iron sights, but there have been some external accessory rail sights that have been produced.

Details

Similar to scopes, iron sights are meant to help with a user's aim and accuracy. They often come in two forms: a single front sight or a pair of front and rear sights that align with each other. Using a pair of sights is considered to be more accurate, as it ensures a blaster is pointed directly at its target; using only a front sight gives only a vague estimation of how to aim the blaster.

Like other aiming accessories, however, aiming down iron sights will not provide perfect accuracy, due to how well a blaster performs or having to account for "dart drop". Additionally, many built-in sights can be vague, from being too large to properly view down them or them being misaligned with where darts fire from. Adjusting the sights on blasters which have adjustable sights can help with this.

Iron sights can come in many various designs. Open sights consist of a solid front sight and a notched rear sight, and are low profile. Aperture or ghost ring sights consist of a front sight and a rear sight that is either a hole in a plastic feature or a simple ring design. Other forms of sights include a rail-style sight, which is a monolithic rail of plastic that runs across the blaster, which allows the user to intuitively point the blaster directly on at its target; accessory rails can be used as rudimentary rail-style sights.

An important concept when it comes to iron sights is called "sight radius", which is the distance between the front and rear sight. The further the distance, the more accurate the sights are, as there is less leeway on how to align the sights than if they were closer together. However, sights that are closer together are easier to acquire. Most accessory rail sights come in the form of separate front and rear sight meant for attaching to a Picatinny rail, allowing the space between the sights to be user-adjusted.

Some blasters have sights that, when aligned, have the blaster pointed at an angle. This allows the blaster to shoot further, although it will not be accurate at close range. The post-2022 Nerf RIVAL blasters have sights that can be calibrated for windage and elevation, by adjusting the horizontal and vertical positions of the sights, respectively.

Flip-up sight

Main article: Flip-up sight

A flip-up sight is a special type of iron sight that come in the form of a single sight or a pair of sights. They can be flipped up or down to change their sight picture, and some can be adjusted further. Some blasters and barrel extensions have built-in flip-up sights, either to change the sight picture or remove it to keep the profile low.

Iron sights

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	Name	Year released
	First Order sight	2015

Buzz Bee/Adventure Force

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Dart Zone/Adventure Force

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X-Shot

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Trivia

• Some scopes such as the Targeting Scope can be used as a rear sight that aligns with the blaster's front sight for aiming.

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