Peep sites

[Boone66]

How about a different peep sight, I’ve sent many thousands of cast bullets down range in the past 60yrs using this style of peep on my modest collection of Schuetzen rifles. My favorite deer rifle is a 1932 proofed 98 Mauser with open sights. I’ve never used peep sights on a hunting rifle so can’t comment on them, other than to say it seems that a v sight would pick up faster on a running animal.
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I love my schutzen and my sharps, but smaller peep disk or it is removed for hunting. Remove the disk on your schutzen and you will see how much of a animal you can actually see, versus a rear v notch. Big difference. Then take that schutzen hunting.

 

[ZG47]

But 2/3 of a rifle with irons
I am trying for a rifle with cocking piece peep but just cannot to bring my self to have it built
For now, using Smithson’s peep on square bridge.
Maybe a 338-06 Asquare on Parkwest action

Have you bought a Rigby style peep backsight from McLaughlin Metalworks OR … are you trying to persuade the missus that: you really, really need it?

 

[F. Vaccaro]

The only disadvantage to aperture sights relative to a scope is that the eye must focus on two different distances whereas the scopes optics put both the reticle and the target at the same focus. In a stressful situation it takes a lot of muscle memory to focus on the front sight and place it on the somewhat out of focus target. Otherwise you are shooting a rifle as if it were a shotgun, focusing on the target and expecting the gun to shoot at where you are looking.

I actually think the eye automatically centers in the peep sight & you only have to concentrate on the front sight?

 

[Ray B]

What I wrote was that with an aperture sight the eye must focus on two distances- the front sight and the target. as opposed to three distances, the front sight, target and rear sight. Since the eye is looking through the hole in the aperture and it is out of focus, the aperture is blurred. this causes the center of the hole to be brightest. So it is easy to put the bead or tip of the blade in the brightest spot and set it on the desired part of the target.

 

[ZG47]

I love my schutzen and my sharps, but smaller peep disk or it is removed for hunting. Remove the disk on your schutzen and you will see how much of an animal you can actually see, versus a rear v notch. Big difference. Then take that schutzen hunting.

A front aperture also works nicely on silhouette targets. Black powder shooters do it that way, according to the late Mike Venturino.
My friend, the Hon. Nicole McKee, won a shoot off in a 200 metre static deer target shoot, using her Fulton Regulated No. 4 Mk 1 against another club member, who was using a highly accurate, scope-equipped 6mm Remington that he had put together, a decade or two in the past.

It ain’t what you got, it’s how you use it!

And … for those who have read this story before, too bad!

 

[MS 9x56]

I love my schutzen and my sharps, but smaller peep disk or it is removed for hunting. Remove the disk on your schutzen and you will see how much of an animal you can actually see, versus a rear v notch. Big difference. Then take that schutzen hunting.

I have a wooden box with a sliding top containing all my peepsight apertures tucked in my gun cabinet. For me they are the fastest acquiring target sights of all iron or open sights. Unless hunting dark thick pine stands. All my rifles that don’t wear scopes have peeps except my MS 1905 which has a shallow V express sight. As a still hunter the peep is my favorite. As I grow older I often find myself in an elevated stand where a scope gives me more range. Of all my peep sight the Lyman’s are my preferred. They are easily adjustable and built very robustly.

 

[JG26Irish_2]

Peeps just simply work. Much better than one would expect. It is the poor man's red-dot but without the batteries. I have them on several rifles and even with my old eyes, I shoot them well.

The rifle shoots the same and does not know what kind of aiming device you as the shooter are using. As long as you can see to aim precisely there is not much of a handicap. Only ones I can think of is that at longer range it is harder to judge an animal with the naked eye so binos are a must and in lower light or deep woods conditions you may have more difficulty getting a clear aim. For speed on close range tgts they are tough to beat. If you are a military vet who was trained on the M1, M14, FAL, M16 or M4, etc you will feel right at home.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Peeps just simply work. Much better than one would expect. It is the poor man's red-dot but without the batteries. I have them on several rifles and even with my old eyes, I shoot them well.

The rifle shoots the same and does not know what kind of aiming device you as the shooter are using. As long as you can see to aim precisely there is not much of a handicap. Only ones I can think of is that at longer range it is harder to judge an animal with the naked eye so binos are a must and in lower light or deep woods conditions you may have more difficulty getting a clear aim. For speed on close range tgts they are tough to beat. If you are a military vet who was trained on the M1, M14, FAL, M16 or M4, etc you will feel right at home.

I agree. When iron sights are called for a peep is the only way to go. I have several rifles with peeps but my favorite is on my T/C muzzle loader. I've taken three mule deer bucks and a wild boar with that set up.

replaced the front sight with a small fiber optic bead. It is now much better in low light conditions.

 

[Jefferry404]

this is going to be my old school 416 rigby with irons and peep. The design boreline height of the filed express sight is the same as the elevation center of the peep boreline. So, a little old school with some new.

 

[Nevada Mike]

This is a Lyman folding [peep (ghost ring) mounted on the bolt of my 404J. It is an "African" rifle. This sight came off an original Jeffery rifle. It also has express sights with folding leaves to accommodate the peep when it is in use.