Could somebody help me understand these high scope mounting practices and now I saw off set open sights!! I vividly remember as a 14 year old kid watching my good buddy getting totally reamed out by the local gun expert how his LITTLE 30-30 with its offset scope was so bad to aim with because the angle of his scope would never let him hit anything except at the distance he sighted it in at. Then he was blasted for even having a 30-30. I was always told keep the scope as close to the bore as possible! Now scopes are so high they are handles to carry the gun with even with sub zero gloves on. Where we told wrong as a kid 50 some years ago?