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I'm a peep site freak. I have 20 some 22 rifles, only 2 with scopes a 10/22 & 77/22. Most of the others have tangs or peeps. All my CF levers, pumps and autos same. I have a couple 12g slug guns with reciever sight. I do have a few HV Varmit guns and deer rifles with scopes. Hunting small game with 22 or deer with CF rifles I use
Peeps 95% of the time.
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I use a peep sight on my Kimber 82G for .22 competition at 50 and 100 yards. I also use a scope but peep sights are more challenging and a better test of marksmanship.
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I shot NRA High power rifle ( both service rifle and match rifle) Long Range and 3 position small bore. In High power it was a M1a or garand with rear aperture and blade front, Match rifle was set up with warner rear gehmen aperture and globe front. Long range was the same warner and globe or a scope depending on relay. 3 position was a redfield rear with merit disk and front globe or unertal scope. I always thought it was interesting that my iron sight scores were 2-4 points higher than the scope sight scores. I enjoyed the "iron" sights a lot. My match rifles were set up with a bloop tube of 6"-8" to increase sight radius also. This took the warner from 4 clicks to the minute to 5 clicks per min.
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peeps are best for me for iron sights ... particularly since they're mandatory for iron sight BPCR/TR. :)
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A friend's son was one of the top shooters in his high school small bore rifle league.
Of course he started at a young age and would practice at our .22 club often using a FWB air rifle and would always be hitting bullseyes offhand
shot after shot on regulation 10 meter targets.
He went on to shoot with the state junior rifle team and ended up winning a national small bore any sight match at Camp Perry.
That's when he gained the attention of the US Naval Academy and they ended up successfully recruiting him for their NCAA rifle team.
It was a done deal, and all he needed to get was a rubber stamped letter of recommendation from his Congressman.
After he graduated and was commissioned, his ship had a competition to determine who would be the ship's top marksman.
He won the ship's competition which sure did get the Captain's attention. because he didn't know that the lad had such a distinguished shooting background
and could shoot lights out.
If a young person is good enough with small bore competition peep sights, it can take a person places, and help get them recruited by a college rifle team
with a full scholarship or a military academy.
And that also applies to the young ladies, as one dad told me how his daughter had been offered a 4 year scholarship by the Murray State Rifle Team but turned
it down because it didn't fit into her future academic plans.
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I like peep sights , maybe not as much as optics but I'll use them a lot until my eyes give out .
Jack
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Peeps were what I first learned to shoot with. Have always liked them and find them the fastest, most accurate sight to use for me.
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I started with peep sights in ROTC in the late 60's and have shot with them on at least one rifle ever since. Currently shooting them on a 40-65 rolling block and a 22 rolling block and the hunting rifle a M8 Remington.
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Many moons ago I bought a Remington 540X that had the mounting blocks for the peep sights but no sights so I scoped it. A while back I picked up a set of correct peep sights from a member here and once I figured them out and sighted the rifle in I was like a little kid at Christmas.
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I have several rifles with aperture sights on them and the rest are open sights. I have no rifles with a scope on it and I will be 66 a week from tomorrow. Last group I shot with my "new to me" Schuetzen rifle was off a bench at 100 yards and it grouped ever so slightly over an inch for 5 rounds with my cast handloads. Any who have used a German Schuetzen rifle with their exquisite sights won't find that much of a surprise.
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Marlin SBL comes with ghost ring sights and a good rail. I got one last summer and haven't even tried a scope on it, I like the ghost sights.
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Since Cataract surgery I am able to use the peeps and can shoot about as Google as with a scope. 22's and plinking as good as it gets.