Seems to me I used to be a decent shot with a handgun. Now at the ripe old age of 54, my eyes are good for distance but not up close, so open sights don't work for me anymore. Most of my shooting now is with scoped rifles and I have a peep sight on my winchester 94 and that seems to work fine. So, what I want to know is does anyone make replacement "peep" sights to fit handguns or do I have to get a gun smith to fabricate them for me. Thanks
peep sight on a handgun???????????
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MHUNT said:
Man, that is an awesome idea. Keep us posted and we want info and pics if you're successful. Would be a great way for beginners to get the feel of things too. Open sights seem to be difficult for newby non gunnies to get sight of... pun intended. Good luck to you!
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I know they make Ghost Ring sights for handguns, but obviously that's different.
The issue I see with peep sights on a handgun.... wouldn't you need to have your eye in a very precarious position to make that work? ie: two inches behind the sight? Watch out for that slide!
The issue I see with peep sights on a handgun.... wouldn't you need to have your eye in a very precarious position to make that work? ie: two inches behind the sight? Watch out for that slide!
http://hunting.about.com/od/shootingrev/l/aa010418.htm
Here's a review/advertisment for a handgun peep sight.
Here's a review/advertisment for a handgun peep sight.
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canucklehead said:I know they make Ghost Ring sights for handguns, but obviously that's different.
The issue I see with peep sights on a handgun.... wouldn't you need to have your eye in a very precarious position to make that work? ie: two inches behind the sight? Watch out for that slide!
geologist said:
That's a ghost ring sight in the link. Similar, but made to be used much farther away from the eye...
I think canucklehead is right, peeps are used much closer to the eye, with a lot smaller hole (hence the name "peep sight") and probably couldn't be used for a handgun because your face would have to be held almost right up against the back of it... but who am I to say??
TFC
B.T.W. I have a "one ragged hole" sight on my Ruger MKIII Hunter and really like it!
Check out something like Ameriglo ghost rings(popular for some Glock users)-I have no idea what kind of gun you are planning to mount on, but they make all sorts of dovetail stuff I think.
You can get different coloured tritium for rear and front which may help you focus as well.
You can get different coloured tritium for rear and front which may help you focus as well.
I'm going on the idea that an open sight is the lower half of a peep sight. But it makes sence that it would have to be a larger hole if it's held farther from your eye and closer to the front sight. Come to think of it, the rear sight on a handgun is larger than the rear sight on a rifle.
peep sights
Stevens had rear peep and hooded front sights on there
small frame diamond model pistol-this was a gallery gun,
I ams over the hill of 60 and it works for me, thou you can't shoot the thing with your arm stright.
What really works for me is a pistol scope/ or red dot
I have apparture(?) that clips onto my glasses this
a adj. hole you can adjust for size that works great for
open sights on target pistols
marshall
Stevens had rear peep and hooded front sights on there
small frame diamond model pistol-this was a gallery gun,
I ams over the hill of 60 and it works for me, thou you can't shoot the thing with your arm stright.
What really works for me is a pistol scope/ or red dot
I have apparture(?) that clips onto my glasses this
a adj. hole you can adjust for size that works great for
open sights on target pistols
marshall
Peeps for pistols?
I empathize with your situation. Another way to go, if the peep sights don't work for you, is to talk to your optometrist. I used to take a mock-up handgun, a 6" long(1" diameter) dowel with front and rear sights attached, attach a piece of dowel at right angles(this is your grip), to the optometrist every 2-3 years and have him try a variety of lenses so I could get a really sharp front sight and a slightly blurred rear sight picture. Still works for me and I have a couple of decades more on my meter than you do.
Then there is the Magna- Sight. This, essentially, is a short-focal-length telescope, that fits on your shooting glasses and magnifies your sights (and your wobble, of course) 2.5 times. This allows you to see sighting errors with much greater discrimination. Great idea for precision shooting games, like the ISSF courses. Good luck.
MHUNT said:
I empathize with your situation. Another way to go, if the peep sights don't work for you, is to talk to your optometrist. I used to take a mock-up handgun, a 6" long(1" diameter) dowel with front and rear sights attached, attach a piece of dowel at right angles(this is your grip), to the optometrist every 2-3 years and have him try a variety of lenses so I could get a really sharp front sight and a slightly blurred rear sight picture. Still works for me and I have a couple of decades more on my meter than you do.
Then there is the Magna- Sight. This, essentially, is a short-focal-length telescope, that fits on your shooting glasses and magnifies your sights (and your wobble, of course) 2.5 times. This allows you to see sighting errors with much greater discrimination. Great idea for precision shooting games, like the ISSF courses. Good luck.
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MHUNT, do what I do. What is that? I concentrate on the front sight and the target. That way you really are focusing on one thing and that is the front sight. Regards, Richard
Focussing on two different distances at the same time?
The human eye, like the camera lens, is incapable to focus on the front sight and the target at the same time. The correct way, of course, is to focus on the front sight, accept a slightly blurred rear sight, and the target is mostly out of focus.
What Richard is suggesting is known as mid-ranging. Your eyes focus on the front sight, then the target and then on the front sight again. You are actually trying to focus at a point somewhere between the front sight and the target. This is counter-productive. If you hit anything on the target it's sheer coincidence or luck. You need to concentrate on the front sight before, during and after the shot.
richardoldfield said:MHUNT, do what I do. What is that? I concentrate on the front sight and the target. That way you really are focusing on one thing and that is the front sight. Regards, Richard
The human eye, like the camera lens, is incapable to focus on the front sight and the target at the same time. The correct way, of course, is to focus on the front sight, accept a slightly blurred rear sight, and the target is mostly out of focus.
What Richard is suggesting is known as mid-ranging. Your eyes focus on the front sight, then the target and then on the front sight again. You are actually trying to focus at a point somewhere between the front sight and the target. This is counter-productive. If you hit anything on the target it's sheer coincidence or luck. You need to concentrate on the front sight before, during and after the shot.
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