Has anyone here ever put iron sights on a Rascal to replace the peep sight? I see they come drilled for scope but not sure about attaching iron sights as I am not a fan of peep sights for my kids and scope is not good for learning. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Savage Rascal iron sights
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NorthCoastBigBore
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Are they having accuracy trouble with it, or just a matter of preference?
If it's an accuracy/frustration concern, then I went through something similar with my daughter and her Rascal last month in a thread - she was OK hitting larger steel but smaller targets she wasn't very consistent. The general consensus was that she wasn't holding the rifle close enough to the peep sight for it to work; she was seeing the rear sight so trying to focus on both. Bringing her stance up to a more proper hold has seemed to fix it.
Good luck
If it's an accuracy/frustration concern, then I went through something similar with my daughter and her Rascal last month in a thread - she was OK hitting larger steel but smaller targets she wasn't very consistent. The general consensus was that she wasn't holding the rifle close enough to the peep sight for it to work; she was seeing the rear sight so trying to focus on both. Bringing her stance up to a more proper hold has seemed to fix it.
Good luck
Yeah, he is having accuracy trouble with it trying to hit the small little spinner targets out around 25 yards. To be honest I have zero experience using Peep sights so I thought I would switch them out to iron sights. Any other pointers for using them would be great. He is asking "Santa" for a scope for Christmas because of this.
NorthCoastBigBore
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I wasn't that familiar with them as well when I started my daughter on it. Also shooting at spinners, up close maybe 10-12 yards (close as we're allowed to set steel at the range, which is 10 yards).
Key is not to focus on the rear sight, in order to that he needs to have his cheek close to the rear sight. Then his eyes should only really "see" the front sight. The mechanics of the eye cause it to automatically focus the top of the front sight, in the center of the rear circle. Pretty neat actually.
- My daughter had her cheek too far back, it is possible your boy is doing something similar?
- also make sure his body is at ~45 degrees to the rifle (not perpendicular)
Okay I will try the nail polish and make sure he is getting his eye closer to the sight. As I said, I have had zero experience with peep sights so I was just trying to centre the sight in the centre of the peep hole on target but I must admit I was not having much luck using it either, haha.
Try putting your eye at 1.5 to 2 inches at most from the rear peep. Any further back and it doesn't work. Closer is better than too far back.
Give it a fair try and I suspect you'll become as eager a peep sight convert as a lot of us. Truly small rear aperture sights are "old guy eyeball" approved....
Give it a fair try and I suspect you'll become as eager a peep sight convert as a lot of us. Truly small rear aperture sights are "old guy eyeball" approved....
Your eye will automatically center the end of the front post in the rear of the peep sight. Move or drift the sights as you normally would to sight in. I bought my son a Savage Cub (rascal with a laminate stock) and thought the peep sight was a pretty neat touch for a kid's rifle.
My girls (6 and 8 years old) spent the summer with their new rascals....they too had difficulty with the irons. So I set them both up with aimpoint micros on a single weaver rail and they went from being super-frustrated to super-successful.
Cheers,
Brobee
Cheers,
Brobee
I'm with some of the others. I've shot peep sights since I was a kid and I really like them. When I bought my daughter a rascal I was REALLY impressed with the peep sight. For the money it's a well made very accurate sight. It's no Williams but it is very good for a kid starting out.
Clearcutter, if that is the zeroed position I'd suggest that you need to tighten the barrel into the receiver a little more to shift the dovetail around and let the sight sit more centered. If you do the work yourself and find that it's already hellishly tight at this position stone a little metal off the front of the receiver so it can seat down two or three degrees further into the receiver with the same torque. You should find that the front sight zeros up a lot closer to the middle then.
It definitely looks off in the picture doesnt it?
Its a "tiny" bit to the left in reality. I did stone the bottom of the globes dovetail to make it fit better. If you look at the Globe insert though you can see it's lined right up with the bore. The rear appeture is still in the center of its range.
I bought my grandson a rascal this summer....he does pretty good with the peep sight but he wants a scope mounted on it because I have a scope on my 10/22. I told him he has to learn on the peep first and maybe next year I will install a scope. At say out to 30 yards or so I don't think a scope will be anymore accurate
