What I found is that three veteran firms, Lyman, Marble and Williams, still offer proven aperture sight systems for conventional sporting rifles. I decided to do a survey of the availability of aperture sights today. (One of these is a National Match level competitive shooter who is a member of my club.) I wonder if most younger shooters are even aware that peep sights are useful sighting systems for many sporting guns. I am aware of only a few AR15 shooters who actually shoot very much with iron sights. My respect for the simple efficiency and effectiveness of aperture sights has never diminished.Ĭurrently, I notice that the peep sight equipped rifles I see at my local shooting range are predominantly AR15s and these are mostly mounted as backup sights on so-called tactically equipped ARs, with some kind of optic as the primary sight.
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22 rifles with peep sights, plus lever action rifles, M1 Garands, M1 carbines, break-action single shots and AR15s. The peep sight was easy to use and deadly accurate, as long as I maintained good shooting technique. The first time I shot one of these, I thought I had found the Holy Grail. Some of the rifles we shot were equipped with aperture (peep) sights.
One of the supervised skill activities at our county 4-H summer camps was shooting. 22 rifle shortly before my sixth birthday and did not use any other type of rifle sight until I was ten years old, when I started participating in 4-H youth programs. I learned to shoot and hunt in the 1950s, when telescopic rifle sights were still a novelty and optical sights such as the red dot and ACOG types were science fiction fantasy (never mind lasers). Illustration courtesy of the Lyman Products Corp. Lyman 66A receiver sight on Winchester Model 94 rifle.
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