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i have a ghost ring in the back and a fiber optic in the front and the standard sight in the middle, is the front bead suppose to line up in the middle sight notch and ghost ring as well, when i flip up the middle sight there not lined up, do i just use the ring and front optic?

One would think they'd line up "reasonably" well assuming they were all positioned properly on the rifle to begin with but you're only going to use the ghost ring and front site presumably so I'd remove the standard rear site altogether and sight in with the ghost and front.

I bought the XS set with the ghost-ring peep with the front white post, and whey they line up the factory notch rear sight is below my line of sight. I just folded the thing down and forget about it.

I'm curios, which of the two aperatures that came with the ghost-ring do you use? The larger one is kind of useless to me. It's so big I have a hard time centering the front post, but I find the smaller one if just right.

You don't "center the front sight" when shooting with an aperture. Look through the aperture opening (best with both eyes open), then forget it is there and let it fade out, place the front sight on the target and squeeze the shot away. Your eye is an amazing little computer and will zero itself on the absolute spot where the most light comes through the opening of the aperture - that is dead center of the opening. You have no need to center the front sight within the aperture - that totally negates the fast sighting advantage of an aperture sight.

I know how aperature sights work. If the ring is too big, the little computer in your brain that causes the front sight to automatically center doesn't work very well. There's a reason that target peep sights have very small openings, too small to be practical for hunting situations. I have a Lyman peep sight on a muzzle loader that's a perfect example. Its large aperature is just right for hunting, the small one for target shooting.


Your advice to keep both eyes open is great for most people who don't have a strong hand-eye cross dominance. Unfortunatly, it won't work for me.

Sorry to assume, so if you know all that..., what was the question for? You already know the answer. You probably know that there is an aperture for the XS that utilizes all the Williams screw in apertures and allows you to change the opening size of the aperture by simply screwing in whatever size you want/need. That is a handy device. But you already knew that didn't ya?

what if im left eye dominant and shoot righty?

<<what was the question for?>>

Like I said, I was just curious. We all view things differently, figuratively and literally. The ring is so large on the larger of the two apertures that comes with the sight that I wondered if anyone could use it well. The smaller one, I consider perfect for hunting but maybe too small for someone else.

woodsymiles,
Shoot with both eyes open...

McInnis,
For what it is worth, I use the smaller of the two apertures also when big game hunting. On my M39A when squirrel hunting I use a .125 aperture. Makes head shooting grey squirrels easier.

You know, I thought about this more and realized that the XS ghost-ring sights are made for a lot of different firearms, including handguns. I'll bet that's where those large rings would work. If the back sight was held over a foot from your eyes they might work. But on a guide gun, I can't see where they serve any purpose at all.

The small ring lets in enough light for me and my eyes sure aren't as good as they used to be.