“For a red dot or iron sights, a head shot at 200 years is still doable, body shots easy.”
I prefer handguns to rifles for shooting. Hadn’t shot a rifle (outside of a couple of refresher training in the USAF) in 20 years when, in prep for a deployment, I did a course with an iron sighted M-16 at an Army course. Hit all my pop-up targets (human sized) at 150 & 200 yards.
Haven’t fired a rifle since. Still love shooting revolvers and have reluctantly accepted Glocks and a Springfield Hellcat as good guns.
Blocks over a Python? You have slipped rather badly. Wishing you a speedy recovery!