Back-up peep for weaver base ?
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Here's one on my 9.3X62.
Has been on there for years, always ready to flip up when needed.
Ted
Same as Why Not ..
These Redfields are getting hard to find but they don’t require an extremely tall front sight like the XS, NECG, or Talley.
They don’t look like much but once you have them sighted and loctited down they can’t be beat by anything on the market.
These Redfields are getting hard to find but they don’t require an extremely tall front sight like the XS, NECG, or Talley.
They don’t look like much but once you have them sighted and loctited down they can’t be beat by anything on the market.
Just recd on of those Redfields folding peep from Arizona, going to mount it to a cutdown Ruger ring as a try
They were also offered on the JR single piece scope base
I had a Dave J sight on an old M98 .338 that he made by just mounting a small plate with aperture to a scope base
It was not adjustable, but 'regulated' by trial and error to that particular rifle and load, was MOBear for accuracy
The plate didn't have to fold as it was not interfering with the scope ring or scope
They were also offered on the JR single piece scope base
I had a Dave J sight on an old M98 .338 that he made by just mounting a small plate with aperture to a scope base
It was not adjustable, but 'regulated' by trial and error to that particular rifle and load, was MOBear for accuracy
The plate didn't have to fold as it was not interfering with the scope ring or scope
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Brilliantly simple. Reminds me of the simple peep on Parker Hale's scope base that mounts in place of the rear sight on a Lee Enfield No. 4, and makes me wonder about adapting the "L" flip 300/600 yard sight from the Lee Enfield No.4 rifle to the back end of a Weaver scope base.
The XS Sight's 'Low Weaver backup peep' isn't much taller, if any.
ht tps://www.xssights.com/Detail.aspx?PROD=993847&CAT=8534
ht tps://www.brownells.com/rifle-parts/sights/rear-sights/rifle-weaver-backup-base-prod48.aspx
may have to buy a couple, one for a weaver, and try to adapt the second to a Ruger claw
With the nipple part removed leaves a threaded hole in a spherical body, sitting on a threaded post tapped into the rail
good ideas, could even insert a proper aperture into that
not much adjustment, not much worse than just JBwelding a 1/4 or 5/16 nut into the trough of a weaver base
xsSights still show some apertures on their site, looks like they have more thread than a grease zerk
xssights.com/Products.aspx?CAT=9186
good ideas, could even insert a proper aperture into that
not much adjustment, not much worse than just JBwelding a 1/4 or 5/16 nut into the trough of a weaver base
xsSights still show some apertures on their site, looks like they have more thread than a grease zerk
xssights.com/Products.aspx?CAT=9186
