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Oh yeah. Love my Recknagel Express sights.

Small male with custom 9.3x62 @ 110 yards 286 Woodleigh RNSP. Shoulder and then head shot.



Old female cull Impala at 20 metres.

That's the challenge of iron sights. My eye sight sucks at my age. The older I get, the shorter the range I can shoot iron sights. Shorter distance means more challenge. More challenge. More fun.

Nobody will ever claim that a scope isn't more accurate, more effective, and easier, but is it more fun? Not for some of us.

I don't hunt all that much, but I do have rifles with iron sights and I'm starting to get pretty good with them.



That was a few years ago, when I first found out how accurate a quality peep could be. That is 100 yards just missing my one inch square.

This was a few days ago. (No, I didn't shoot the cat.)



I have one more of those cartridges and I just might try and hit it again tomorrow.

My best group to date came from a peep sight.



I've got sub-moa groups from that rifle consistently for over 2 years.

I trust these peeps ruggedness more than I do a scope, and the cost 1/8 of a scope.

Nice shooting, but please read the title of the thread.

It was a response to your "Nobody will ever claim that a scope isn't more accurate, more effective, and easier, but is it more fun? Not for some of us" statement.

Don't make declaratory statements if you don't want called on them.

Now I'm legal.

We all know target peeps are accurate, but few hunt with them.

Just try and stay in the spirit of the thread.

This it totally congruent with where YOU took the thread.

I didn't want it to turn into a target shooting thread. It was perfect until your post.

I gave you a compliment, and then even said please.

Now lets not turn this cool thread into the usual Fire bullshit.

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No! It was perfect until you made a statement you couldn't defend.



I find it ironic that you continue with this tactic as if I'm ruining it for everyone; when I wouldn't have commented further on that topic... I was going to compliment others on their rifles but then the thread police put a stop to it.

This thread continues to veer off course because of YOU!

Model 71 .348, 120 yards, DRT.



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Now that I think of it, I have a really nice Lyman 56A that I need to do something with.
I have a model 94 I could put it on, or even that model 71 from my pic.
I'd really like to find a good model 64, though!







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[quote=Pharmseller]Now that I think of it, I have a really nice Lyman 56A that I need to do something with.
I have a model 94 I could put it on, or even that model 71 from my pic.
I'd really like to find a good model 64, though!










Like send it to me to mount on my M64? Would you part with it?

How about you parting with your model 64?
I've been looking for one for a while.

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I am not sure if I would or not, she is pretty and in really good shape:



I can only say no....

I'd say no, too!
Beautiful.

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Yo!!!
I still drag out my Win. 95 405 WCF a few times every Deer Season.
AMRA

Shrapnel, care to share what caliber/cartridge you took that moose and bison with?

Gotta love those old lever actions!

My eyes are not what they used to be, I use a scope, but shoot iron sights at matches.