It seems like you could easily screw up and put the sight in the down position and forget to return it to the up position and then throw your rifle to your shoulder to take a once in a lifetime shot and there is no front sight.
You are not wrong. I used to hunt with a Beach sight for a while. It was always in the wrong position when I needed it. Flipping it up or down is really not what you want to be doing when waiting for that mule deer to stop and look back for a second. This sight, like the Beach and maybe even more so, can easily get a bit of gun case lint or a fragment of a leaf or other junk under that stop that would affect the height of the sight, resulting in a high shot. A retractable blade is kind of cool, but it is both a solution in search of a problem and a disaster lurking waiting to happen.
That said, LRF's design is pretty interesting, especially if it could be made to pop up to 2 different (and selectable) heights on demand. But more complexity is probably more opportunity for Murphy to be injected into the game.
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