eli5 How are guns accurate if their sights are so high?

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Take the ak for exemple, the front sight is like 4 centimeters above the barrel, how is that accurate? Do you just have to compensate for that? Also aplies to scopes, some of the sight quite high on the gun

Edit: i already know they make arcs because of gravity and the angle of the barrel

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>Take the ak for exemple, the front sight is like 4 centimeters above the barrel, how is that accurate? Do you just have to compensate for that? Also aplies to scopes, some of the sight quite high on the gun

Sights don’t run parallel to a barrel. They are accurate and *only* accurate for one specific distance and only if gun and sights are pointed at that distance horizontally. A gun sight that has been adjusted to a point at 50m will only let you hit targets at exactly 50m distance accurately.