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I just used a peep sight for the first time( rifle-model 94) and was amazed at the results. The groups at 50 yards were tight and it seemed like I was seeing the target better than with regular iron sights.

Question-does anybody hunt with more powerful rounds and shoot, say over 100 yards using peep sights?

Thanks in advance,

Gator 1

Gater,

Yup, folks do that.

I have a friend who shoots his black powder cartridge rifles at some surprising ranges.

In another life I used to shoot iron sight matches at 1,000 yards with aperture sights.


Your eye doesn't have to focus on the peep, you just look through it. That helps, especially for older eyes.

jim

FWIW:

Peep sights can really be quite accurate once a guy figgers out the sight picture he wants.

I took my first big game animal at 70 yards with a peep sighted rifle. The WIld Hog just ran in a small semi circle and died.

BMT

Righto, Hunter Jim. In a previous life in law enforcement, we had a combat rifle with aperture rear sight, and the stooooopid instructor kept telling the men to make sure they centred the top of the front sight in the rear sight. Lucky if you could hit a boxcar at 100 yards that way. I never lsitened to him. Pappy told me to look through the peep sight and that my eye would automatically centre the front sight in the rear sight.

He said it was like looking through a keyhole into the woman's dressing room. Who in their right mind would be looking at the keyhole when there was something more critical to focus on? Good ole pappy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I hunt with irons, and shoot CLR target rifles with irons, as well as black powder cartridge rilfes with irons, as well as my scoped rigs.
But I prefer the irons.
They are a lot of fun.
Catnthehat

Shootist,

Pappy had it right.

And he had a good teaching lesson too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I am afraid though keyholes only work for we "older kids".

jim

Peeps are great. Service rifle shooters have used them effectively at 1000 yds for over a hundred years. Your eye will naturally line up the sights. Always focus on the front sight. There are many a shooters who can shoot peeps better than the average shooter with a scope. My only problem with using a peep for hunting is they get hard to see through in low light conditions

I can shoot a peep as well as a scope-in bright daylight. The difference comes when the light begins to fade. Then the old eyes need the optical assistance...

I am not a target shooter, but have used peeps to hunt with a lot--and at ranges beyond 100 yards. Have taken prairie dogs at over 200 (first shot) and last year killed a caribou at over 350. If you practice and know the rifle, then there is no problem in decent light.

MD

I've had a good deal of experience using aperture sights on the M16 rifle. Back in '79 in boot camp we still had the M16A1, it was no trick to hit torso sized targets at 500 meters, even with the little 55gr bullet that was the standard in those days, and horrendous triggers. Wind could play hell with you though.

The faster twisted M16A2 with the 62gr bullet made it much easier to work the wind.

Looking through the aperture makes the target and front sight appear much clearer than an open sight, and the human eye/brain naturally want to center the front sight post.