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[GregLaROCHE]

I thought it was about optics time for my 36 cal as the sights on it were horrible. Then I heard about and purchased a Tom A Hawk folding rear peep sight and that seems to be a godsend. I like it so much I am going to order another for my mountain rifle. I found out about it from an Octogenarian acquaintance down in Texas who was complaining about his poor eyesight, yet I was seeing him shoot 2” groups at 100 yds and hogs in the head with his 54 cal Kibler. I was poking fun at him saying, he complains about bad eyes but I see how well he shoots. He showed me his Tom A Hawk sight, and said if it wasn’t for it he would have to mount a scope or quit shooting and hunting. Attachment 330063
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What size aperture are you using? I have a diopter type on a target rifle. It gets much better when I go down to 1mm or smaller, if there’s enough light.

[Boerrancher]

What size aperture are you using? I have a diopter type on a target rifle. It gets much better when I go down to 1mm or smaller, if there’s enough light.

I have no idea the size. It is about the same as you would find on a military rifle. I put the final touches to zeroing it last night and love it. I have this self resetting squirrel target on my range, and after I got it completely zeroed at 27 yds I moved up to 20 yds and was repeatedly making head shots off hand with it. Back at 27 yds off hand the head shot was a bit harder, but it was me and not the rifle. Upper body shots were easy enough off hand at that distance.

Here is a target of 11 shots at 27 yds with the rifle off the bags before I installed the peep sight. There was no swabbing, just a 10 shot group, then a sight adjustment followed by the 11th shot.

[Boerrancher]

The Tom A Hawk sight works perfectly. 1 for 2 the second squirrel came running down a big limb with a hickory nut in his mouth, I was aiming at the nut figuring to hit him in the head. Just as I squeezed the trigger the squirrel stopped and I hit the nut. The squirrel was stunned for a second and then when I moved to reload started barking at me. I dumped the powder in and reached for my patch tin and it was gone. I dropped it back where I got the first one. Eventually the squirrel got bored watching me tear apart my possibles bag trying to find my patches, and ran off. I walked back the way I came and sure enough there was my patch tin.