They made snipers out of them. Granted, much depends on condition, but I never really had problems with iron sights on any of the five or six I owned except the first one, which was pretty much a smoothbore due to poor storage anyway. That goes for the 1891 and 1891/30s, not for the carbines as I never had one of those. I heard the fixed bayonet on the M44 did have an effect on accuracy.