Using peep sights with regular sights

[Mascibbe]

Hello, this may be an odd question. I would like to use peep sights on my long rifle for general use but realize I can’t use them for most competition.

Can I leave regular sights in place while using the peep sight? Will the rear standard sight interfere with peep sight?

[Joe Stein]

I have several rifles that I have peep sights on and I have always left the standard open sights on as well. They should be aligned the same, anyway, so you will be looking right over/ through the open rear sight. You probably won't even notice it.

[Don Steele]

One of the men in my club removes the screw-in insert from his peep sight, leaving what some refer to as a "ghost ring". He sights through that, but using the "primitive" sights on his rifle to line up his shot. He says it functions in the same manner as a Merit Eye Disc, or small piece of tape with a hole in it, on the strong eye lense of his shooting glasses.

[Hungry Horse]

 My Slotterbeck double rifle has buckhorn sights on top of the sight tube.

 Hungry Horse

[recurve]

I use them that way, looking down the barrel sights. larger hole called ghost ring(very fast for hunting) smaller hole peep sight(great way to work up loads) great way to sharpen sight picture like a pin hole camera we made as kids

[Eric Krewson]

When I made my peep, I heated it and bent it to the point that when I looked through it, I can align the front sight with the notch one the rear sight just like I would if I didn't use the peep.

Prior to cataract surgery I couldn't even see the rear sight without a peep.

[smylee grouch]

It looks like those peeps work very well when I see those groups.  Some place in the back of my mind the phrase " double wobble " comes to mind but I'm not sure this would be the same.   

[TDM]

Eric, I really like the design of your peep sight.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

A few years back, I made a pistol gripped percussion Hawken rifle for a friend, and he wanted a peep sight with it.  Once I had a load and the sights regulated for the iron sights on the barrel, it was a simple matter to adjust the peep sight so that looking through the peep, I could see the rear and front sights too.  In truth, the peep clarified the rear sight making it crystal sharp, and accuracy was better using all three sights.  Although I didn't check it out, I think I could have removed the rear sight from the barrel and done just as well without it...certainly would have been less cluttered.

[Daryl]

That Hawken.

[Bsharp]

I have found that even a very large hole will help focus using iron sights.

Some call them a Ghost Rings.

[Waksupi]

On one rifle, I made a buck horn sight. I drilled a smaller diameter than a standard buck horn, and then opened the top to form the horns. The whole rear sight acted as a large aperture. Worked well for older eyes.

[Uncle Miltie]

In the old days picket rifles used peep sights to win shooting matches as well as hunting, where an open sight might be a better option.  This sight is from a picket rifle made around 1850, and though it has no provision for elevation it has plenty for windage.  When the open sight is needed the leaf folds down and stays put.  Really nice sight which could be made at home with just a few hand tools.

[Daryl]

Now that's a cool, primitive sight.