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My Springfield 30-40 Krag has a peep.

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OMG.... Ballistics in Scotland!!!! Anyone else remember this gentleman? Worked in Saudi..... I know he was around twenty years back on the Shooterstalk Forum,

Here he is on the topic of aperture sights on Enfields....

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/archive/index.php/t-278356.html


Good they are, particularly the Mk I sight.

From what I can tell, I do believe though that the British Pattern 13 (circa 1912) and the Pattern 14 (circa 1914) rifles led the way with a good aperture sight. The US 1917 derivative of the P14 also used the same sight, but calibrated for the US 30/06 ball round of 1906.

The British were certainly ahead of the rest of the world as far as rifle sights went in the first 40 years or so of the 20th Century with their early adoption of aperture sights placed on the receiver bridge. The US caught up in a hurry though with the design of the M1 Garand rear sight.

I think that is true, and the military aperture sight originates with the P13 trials rifle. There were problems of flash, noise, metallic fouling and erosion with its large .276 cartridge, but they have been long since overcome with rifles like the 7mm. Remington Magnum, and could have been overcome sooner if some idiot hadn't started a war, which made a change of cartridge undesirable. Whether anybody in the world has ever needed a better long-range cartridge than the .30-06 is very doubtful, though. It was a reaction to the Boer War of 1899, and nobody has ever fought another war in which the infantry rifle was the dominant weapon.


The No4 Lee-Enfield rear sight is less well protected than the P13, P14 and M1917 versions, between the receiver "ears". But Parker-Hale and Alfred J Parker made accessory micrometer windage slide to clip onto the No.4 version, and accept screw-in discs. They still appear (not cheaply unfortunately) on eBay.


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From that same thread, sig line material.....

Careful if you are having a peeing match. Sometimes the wind changes, and it blows back on you.


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Originally Posted by Biebs
My Springfield 30-40 Krag has a peep.



Mine also, had it when I was a kid, it's been gone for about 60 years now.


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Originally Posted by jnyork
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My Springfield 30-40 Krag has a peep.



Mine also, had it when I was a kid, it's been gone for about 60 years now.


Like this one? The 1901 sight.

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Originally Posted by kaywoodie
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My Springfield 30-40 Krag has a peep.



Mine also, had it when I was a kid, it's been gone for about 60 years now.


Like this one? The 1901 sight.

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Is this the Buffington sight?
I have my FIL's old deer rifle in the safe. The receiver is marked "Remington model 1903" in 30-06 of course.

It has this exact sight. I have shot it well at 200 yds. Plenty good enough to split a military helmet at that range and a good deal further.

But it still pales when compared to the Lee Enfield JC with the precise ladder sight mounted on the rear receiver bridge.


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It was the Canadian Ross.

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My first peep sight was on a Daisy 25 BB gun in 1961, but they had been producing them since 1917.


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Originally Posted by jnyork
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My Springfield 30-40 Krag has a peep.



Mine also, had it when I was a kid, it's been gone for about 60 years now.


Peeps on Krags are aftermarket.

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Not if you count the Buffington sight as a peep. GD

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Originally Posted by Birdwatcher
Watching a guy take a snap shot at a German with his No.1 Enfield in the movie “1917”....



Birdy,

Not really an answer to your question, but my uncle Glen was up in the area near Hurtgen in the rugged and forested terrain just before the Battle of the Bulge (which he fought in), he said they had lots of skirmishes and he really hated the peep on the Garand. His concept of the ideal sights for snap shooting would have been the old Winchester buckhorn rear with a big gold dot front. He felt that the buckhorn was accurate enough for the close range, snap shots they were forced to take. He did love that the Garand was a semi-auto. He said that the rate of fire could pin down an enemy long enough to do them real harm.


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I was thinking trapdoor Springfield as someone mentioned above.


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