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peep sight question
andersk
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The eyes are getting older, and I'm having trouble getting rear sight and front sight and the target all in focus on my .50 calibre Hawken long gun.
I've been told that adding a tang mounted peep sight will help me shoot more accurately. What's the scoop on that? How does that work?
Who sells them?
I've been told that adding a tang mounted peep sight will help me shoot more accurately. What's the scoop on that? How does that work?
Who sells them?
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It is the idea behind every target shooter using iron sites, you can worry only about the front site on the target.
All the old big bore sharpshooters used them, Lyman made a million of them. [;)]
See this pic of a typical target shooter.
and the dark site on the back of a Hawkkin.
and the site itself..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thompson-Center-Tang-Sight-Hawken-Renegade-White-Mountain-Carbine-/231610486193?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ed0f8db1
Do you need one with rails or can it be mounted down low?
The eyes are getting older, and I'm having trouble getting rear sight and front sight and the target all in focus on my .50 calibre Hawken long gun.
I've been told that adding a tang mounted peep sight will help me shoot more accurately. What's the scoop on that? How does that work?
Who sells them?
Just some thoughts about going to a peep.
Ever try looking at a target thru your other eye?
Might get a surprise looking at a target and when shooting from a rest at targets it don't take very much practice shooting with the other eye.
I started practicing shooting with either right or left few years ago and found that I could actually shoot better and see target more clear left handed.
Some of the tang peep sights are kinda expensive if going to the globe front type with interchangeable inserts. If you are a tinker You might try just rigging a visual peep indicator onto the gun and do a view of a target before going thru process of actually installing a purchased peep. You can re-search size of peeps, etc for viewing. Lyman at one time made a peep that fit over your eyeglasses and folded up out of the way for normal viewing with the shooting eye was advertised as helping focus when shooting target. A small peep hole was in front of your shooting eye. Do not know if they still offer such and I never tried it either but read about such.
You can then play with size of peep hole and type of front sight if you tinker with your own homemade type just to run a visual test.
T/C has some real good user friendly no drill and tap scope mounts reasonable on flea bay every once in awhile for the T/C guns. Here is one for a T/C Hawken barrel for $15. 161786368948 I'm not associated with this flea bay seller.
This one is for a 1990 or later gun that the rear tang has a tapped hole, but easily installed on the older pre-1990 guns if not tapped at the rear because the real tapped hole is not in the hollow barrel section, it's in the solid part of the breech plug. 1990 and later Hawken come with the breech drilled and tapped and a hole plug installed so a their compatible scope base could be installed by removing the rear sight and using it's screw hole for the front screws. The original T/C prices just before they stopped making the scope bases was around $45 to $65 for the sidelocks.
Scope if allowed is really way to go for weak eyes.
Ronnie Milsap can shoot target with a scope.[;)]
I had thought that you just left on the old rear sight. The idea of the peep sight was just to help focus vision on the existing rear and front sights. What say you?