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

Question

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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Answer 1

A weapon will be zeroed, either at the factory or by the user.

This process involves aligning the sights properly with the location the bullet will be at a certain distance.

A gun can only be zeroed for one specific distance at a time, and to aim precisely, the zero must be adjusted for different ranges.

While the sight may be a few inches above the bore axis, at a hundred yards (a typical zero distance) this can be compensated for by a slight adjustment of angle.