Discover timeless peep and Patridge post sights~Accurate, fast, and deadly at any range!
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- Does that scope have you down? Tired from lugging it everywhere? Snow and rain fogging your lens? Tired of clumsy and expensive lens covers? Your trim, lightweight rifle doesn't feel so trim and light by noon? Your holographic sight obscures half your target, and batteries run down? Can't believe the cost of a good scope? Learn why the Patridge post and peep receiver sight combination can deliver precise, sub-MOA accuracy at ANY range, under conditions that stop the scope sighted shooter, and why they have remained the choice for U.S. combat rifles for over 80 years! Learn why the peep sight is NOT a short range sight, and why GunBlue490 uses precision peep sights on many of his accurate rifles, with complete confidence. Yes, the scope improves definition and its magnification is essential for many opportunities, and for those occasions can't be beat, but discover why the time-honored peep sight is so much more versatile for many hunters, is lightning fast as ever, and may be as perfect for you as it was for your grandfather (and for that Tennessee marksman). See various types of peep and open sight designs that work, and a couple that are to be avoided.
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Never really cared for a telescope, other than for extremely long distance shots. That would be over 200 yards for me.
Your knowledge and skills just earned you another subscriber. I think you are at least on a par with Paul Harrell, and Hickock45
You have a beautiful natural talent of teaching. I actually feel like I was learning the entire way through!
He's always right on the money and easy to understand
u sir are a wealth of knowledge.thank you for sharing the years of experience with us all
Agreed, I totally enjoy Gunblue's lessons.
I've never watched a video from you that I've cut short. Thanks for the education, the reminders, and off-handed factoids that make you go, "hmmm....."
I could not figure out how a peep sight could possibly be good. Thank you for this.
Thanks much for the time you take, and experience you bring to your videos.
Another highly informative and erudite presentation. Many thanks for sharing your extraordinary experience and knowledge with us .
Thanks for posting this.
I am a U.K. airgunner .I have just ordered a rifle with open sights for informal competition shooting & the information you have posted is invaluable.
I am getting excited to be shooting again.
Cheers.
You know I never thought about open sights this way as thanks for the outstanding detailed info as this vid is a great experience for shooters....I prefer open sights even though my eyes don't see so well anymore....Good info....
Mr. Gunblue
Thank you for the reply.
I appreciate the information and will continue to stick with iron sights.
Godspeed
Oh man, I always love your lectures. I’m so glad this came up in today’s search.
Another great video! I have a Skinner peep on my 1894 winchester and love it! Back to basics. Keep up the good work.
Another fantastic video. Thank you very much for spending the time to create these masterpieces of detailed knowledge. There is a certain magic in your presentations. This one changed the way I'm approaching some custom work.
Great info!! Just found your channel while searching for aiming peep sights and looks like I have a bunch of new vids to watch!
Great video, I miss the days when rifles came with Iron sights and the wonderful wood stocks. I'm afraid we'll never see those days again but it sure was nice to have lived them.
I'm having them added. Never know when you might drop your rifle hunting and screw up your scope
@Furn333 Ain't that the truth.
@@219garry if your scope breaks that easily then you should probably get a better scope.
@@abigailsaoirsefinnegan Never said anything about the scope breaking
@@219garry still..,.a quality scope won't do that. My Aimpoint T-2 can take a shotgun round and hold zero.
One of the Very Best Videos I've Seen. Brought me back to Reality. Just took the borrowed the battery eating red dot off my rifle and returned it to rightful owner. Saved me a bunch of money. I just quit looking at Scopes, Red Dots, and Hologram Sights. Will just wear my reading glasses so I can see the front sight plainly. GONA put a rear peep on one that I let the scope go with another one to my son. Not concerned about another replacement scope for that one now. Thanks For Well Done Videos. I'm 75 years old. Been shooting for 68 years. Thought I "NEEDED" Scopes. Not.
i have listened to you for some time. I want to thank you for sharing you help me at so many levels. Your Great.
When I was a kid in highschool, I used to shoot on the JrROTC rifle team with Remington 40X 22's. As stated, I could see everything clearly. Now, at 55, my eyes love scopes... I really enjoy your videos, there's so much honestly presented, usable information. I appreciate your efforts and all the nuggets of knowledge you throw in. Again, thanks!
@Furn333
If you still got your eyes, get to an optician and talk to an eye surgeon.
It's often possible to get a lot back with special glasses, contacts or laser surgery. Now you have to see what you'd do to get it back.
Thank you for an excellent video. I just inherited my grandfather's favorite target .22 - a modified Savage Model 19-NRA which has Number 10 peep sight on it for the rear sight. The front sight is a ring that he brazed onto a dovetail and then soldered music wire into it to give a cross hair within that ring. I've never shot another rifle so easy to acquire hold on target precisely. This helped a lot in explaining exactly why it's working so well for me.
Best video on the subject by far. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
+10 ! Thanks for sharing Sir ! So many people don't know or understand how accurate they can be. Folks, this old man knows what he's talking about. A wealth of info. Take the time to learn how to use a peep and you won't be sorry. The US military and others around the world use them on their standard issue weapons. So take his advice. They are a joy to use.
What a frightning look you have when you're aiming. I don't wanna be the one spotted! Best regards from France...
And again thanks for your time and teaching.
Thank you for sharing, always a pleasure watching your videos.
Another beautiful discussion. I have been slowly changing my mix of firearms in favor of iron sights - for all the reasons you cite. Great truth is spoken here.
I do agree on the both eyes open part. That’s where Aimpiont comes in when hunting big game. 😁👍
Thanks for all the great instruction you provide for the shooting community.
Dear Sir,
I want to tag one of my favorite video of yours to wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Problem is alk your videos are my favorites.
Thank you for increasing my knowledge of all things guns.
Blessed be you and your family.
Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year to you, your family, and Benny.
Rick Mansberger
Yet another great video giving open and honest opinion. Many thanks for your time and effort from Staffordshire Moorlands, UK.
Geoff Pickford
Much appreciated, from New Hampshire, of the New England states, USA.
Great video! Thanks for demystifying the iron sights. I am 57, and just bought a Pedersoli replica of a target Remington rolling block. It came with a basic full buck-horn rear sight, and what I though was a rudimentary Partridge post front sight. I didn't wanted a scope on it since it is an old gun design & look, but there was no way I was going to be able to see both front and rear sights. I was concerned that the Skinner barrel mount would put the peep sight to far from my eye, but I guess with the right aperture size I should be fine. I decided to give it a (now) educated try... Thanks! :-)
luv these videos reminds me of when I was way younger discuss things with my granddad wow the wealth of knowledge and experience there generation have
Thanks, Love the info and the the history. Young eyes see far, old eyes see ahead
The way those rifles are displayed in the background is so cool
This explanation of different sight types incredibly informative and comprehensive. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for this detailed info. You’ve obviously gleaned this extensive consideration of the peep/patridge precision iron sight
Good solid stuff.
What was the name of the two stage, looked like a peep sight patridge post setup at 33 minutes?
Thank you sir! This was very informative and I learned a great deal.
Superb! I learned so much about eyesight and aiming; it's so much all in our brains!
And kudos for respecting the looks and feel of a rifle. Concidentally, I just this week decided to pull the cheap scope off my inherited 30-06 Rem 721 and go back to iron peep sights, partly because I can get back to the stock cheek weld, so it points better, but also the simpler and more "boresighted" sight picture. The best lens is no lens.
Great video which confirms my own recent experience (although i didn't know why until this vid) while trying out some William's firesite beads and Marbles gold beads on my lever actions with poor results.
Eventually after much frustration I put the old blade front sight back on the Win94 and was shooting out the 10 ring (with a tang mounted rear peep).
Skinner make great Patridge style front sights as well as the rear peeps. I've replaced the front sight on all my un-scoped rifles with these now.
Fantastic review of all iron sight systems.
That's the way I was taught many moons ago.
Refreshing information. Thanks.
Great info, a very knowledgeable man. Thank you sir.
Wonderful, sir. I shoot an iron sight AR-15, a U-sight Iver-Johnson, and a peep sight equipped Marlin 81, and this fills in many of the blanks of understanding for me.
Thank you for another excellent video!
Great video,I changed to a peep on my muzzelloader after missing a fairly close shot with the stock sights that came on the gun and i have been successful ever since.Also i had a lyman peep installed on a Yugo Mauser that is becoming a favorite of mine to shoot. All your videos are very informative i tell everyone i know to sub. Thanks
Best presentation on iron sights I have seen! Feel this is becoming a lost art with todays shooters especially with iron sights not even being put on so many weapons. I have never used a scope to shoot or hunt an am considered very old fashioned . Did shoot a Garand in CMP service rifle for a few years but no expert marksman. Love the Savage- the ergonomics of it was designed perfectly for the iron sights !
I use to shoot on my High school rifle team single shot bolt action 22LR at 50 meters in off hand , kneeling, sitting and prone with shooting sling with peep sight and globe and the 10 ring was the same size as the 22LR bullet some of the best shooting lessons and marksmanship i have ever learned
Wonderful Video. You nailed it and it is so easy to follow along. You remind me so much of my Dad.
Wish I had received this instruction back in 1966 when going for my Boy Scout Marksmanship Merit Badge. With no idea what I was doing, the embarrassment and humiliated was hasn't been forgotten for 53 years.
Another great video. Thank you.
One very good video thank for the breakdown on all the sights
Great insight! Thanks!! I used to shoot a FN FAL 7.62 back in the early 90’s and loved the iron sights. We were trained to hit an A4 sheet at 300m. Great sights🙏🏆 true, I was 19 back then. At 52 now I doubt I could hit a barn door at 100🫣😂
Hello sir, I am new to your videos and like so many others stunned by your knowledge and really appreciate the your time spent educating us/me. I’m 61 years old and back in the day I was on the high school rifle team. I was fortunate in that a fellow team mate allowed me to practice and shoot in competition his personal rifle (a Savage Anschutz Match 64) as a-posed to the very used school rifles a available to us
Thank you again for another wonderful video.
As always, great insight and info!
Thank you for the great videos!
Great video, great narrative. I learned a lot. I too like Peep and Patridge sights for the same reasons you mentioned, scopes can be cumbersome and it seems I'm always bumping them.
Drag a strong magnet around in the sand, to find that peep sight hunting knob. Use some fine wire mesh and sift the sand. Hope you find it. Getting down on the ground is the easy part. Getting back up off the ground is a workout! Blessings GunBlue490!
Christ Bless!
Hawk.
Ha ha! Too true. My back and joints are over due. For a shot of liquid wrench.
I dropped a screw and lost it. The other screw I had was the same but they were a unique pair. I dropped the 2nd screw and watched where it went. It landed about a foot away from the other screw.
Thank you for the edification, good sir.
That was a great video! Well done.
That's what we had on our FNC1A1 rifles in 1968. I like peep sights. Some called the front sight a Patridge and some called it a blade.
Very good information. I learn alot from this man. I sure appreciate you sir!!
Very informative for those unfamiliar with all of types of iron sights. Actually, I think full buckhorns are better than semi-buckhorns since they can be used like a modified ghost ring and don't obscure as much of the target as the Mickey mouse ears of most semi-bucks.
One last note about the Sgt York movie with Cooper, which is one of my favorite war movies. In the movie they have York and his companions all using the US Springfield Modle 1903 which is incorrect. The Springfield arsenal simply didn't have the capacity to produce the 2 million rifles needed when America suddenly entered the war. However, Winchester, Remington, and Eddystone had been producing the P1914 Enfield for the UK for several years by then. It was an easy matter to change out the chambering from the British .303 to the US 30-06 and the new rifle became the US model 1917.
This was the rifle carried by the vast majority of the American expeditionary forces until the end of the war and it's what York would have used. He also did not use a confiscated German Luger, but instead a standard Colt US mode 1911. Hollywood will always climb a tree to tell a lie when they could have easily stood on the ground and told the truth.
Excellent info, as usual. Thanks.
Just watch this again, very educational!
Incredible, very useful and helpful. Thank you.
Very informative and helpful for me. Thank you for sharing.
Great Video as usual. As a youngster, the open sight was the only alternative I knew....a scope was out of the question more for financial reasons than anything. I was very accurate with my 511 Remington bolt action .22 in the teenage days with the young eyes and could shoot the bottle cap area rather than just hit the bottle. I remember the original instructions for how to sight in as you explain....to put the front sight at the bottom of the circle. For some reason that just did not set right with me as I reckoned the sight should be placed on the center of what I was aiming at and I adjusted the elevation of my gun to do that. Any gun I shot after that I did the same. This applied to a revolver or pistol also. When in the Navy and we had to qualify, I did the same thing, and I never had accuracy issues....I guess it is like you say, you hit what you point at.
Love the precision crisp action on a firearm. I mounted a scope on my 10/22 for target shooting but had more fun plinking with open sights
Yet another great tutorial thank you sir for all the valuable info you don't have to share
I had a Lyman peep sight installed on my 16 in. Model 94 Win Trapper. I took several deer in the Kentucky woods with this Trapper in .45 Colt. My longest shot was probably 70 yards or so in the heavily wooded property I owned. I never took a shot that didn't result in an immediate, clean kill. My peep sight shot placement was identical to the scoped rifle shots I made with other rifles from 6.5x55 to .300 Win Mag.
Recently, when I bought my latest rifle, a pretty CZ527 Lux in .22 Hornet, I decided to go with an NECG aperture sight rather than a typical scope. I'm having the time of my life shooting it, even though I now peer through the aperture using my no-line bifocal glasses!
Thank you! Excellent presentation.
Great videos.
Thank you for your great presentation!
Thanks for another great video!!
A scope also gathers light. It gives you about 20 minutes extra hunting time at the beginning and end of the day. Good Video. I like Iron sights. I'm having a Skinner sight put on my winchester 1895
Great video. I concur on your findings. Peep aperture and Patridge front is the most practical sighting system for almost any rifle.
Personally, I would've kept the Tech Sight on the 10-22. Just more practical is all.
Thank you. Excellent and valuable presentation. You are a master.
Great video. One front sight that you didn't cover was my favorite the old Redfield Sourdough with the beveled brass insert. I've managed to get two of them. One on a 98 Mauser with a Lyman rear and one on a sporterized 1903 with a Redfield rear. With all the gun gaak we can get these days you would think someone would make these again.
Craig Benz I stumbled across this because I have never used a peep sight before. I have a sporterized 1903 with a Redfield rear.
I love my redfield on my sporterized FN Mauser in 7x57. Really looking forward to taking a whitetail this fall.
Thanks for the heads up on the Gil Hebard guns book. Great reading.
Best FREE education anywhere. LOL Thank You!
Very informative. Thanks
Well said sir. I hope the younger viewers pay attention to so much wisdom gained through experience.
I love watching your videos I learn so much thank you
Very good explanation on how to use the peep. I never understood how anyone could use one, until I stopped using as an open notch site, and started looking through it. Nose to T handle. Like its nickname ghost ring, it ghosted away.
It's like your eye becomes the rear site.
A very informative video as always
Thanks for sharing the knowledge
Excellent info; just what I needed. I can no longer see my bead front behind the blade rear on my REM 550-1 and do not want to put a scope on such a beautiful specimen.
Outstanding video. Learned a lot. I prefer the patridge post also. As a matter of fact, I have filed my bead down to make it a patridge and I shoot much better with it like that.
your knowledge is invaluable!!!
Thank you so much l will be watching this again you are a wealth of information
You’re a great teacher.
Excellent video as per usual. I started my love for shooting / hunting with an old German made spring air rifle, then progressed onto a Savage .22 semi that was an old gun even when my father was young. I took an awful lot of rabbits with its open sights.
Later I got the opportunity to shoot 303 Enfields as part of my initial introduction into military service and when I enlisted full time moved onto the 7.62 FN SLR. Nowadays I notice that the modern technology of optical sights as seen on the Steyer AUG 5.56 hasn't done anything to improve the standard of shooting. I think basic foundation skills and marksmanship starting with iron sights should be the core of firearms training.
I'm not a purist and use scopes on my hunting rifles but if gun ownership and ammo prices where different here I would love to maintain some 'scopeless' rifles.
I have a lovely old pre '60's BSA .270 (bought thanks to your videos) equipped with Williams sights and tapped for Parker Hale receiver peep sights. I'm very strongly tempted to source the PH sights and give them ago.
Thanks for your very interesting and informative videos.
Be safe in what you do.
Fergus
Ireland
Very good video on an important but often not discussed topic. For myself with my old eyes I have found my preferred hunting sight is a ghost ring rear combined with a fiber optic (Williams, Hi Viz, etc.) front sight in orange or green. In the thick brush I hunt in t is very fast. I adjusted so at 100 yds. the bullet hits at the top of the front sight. The precision is high enough so that at 100 yds. I can put 5 of 5 shots into a playing card with my Trapper Carbine 94ae. A lot of deer can attest the combination works very well.
Recommend a ghost ring for a Ruger 10/22?
I love iron sights, but do admit they are becoming more of a struggle to use in my mid fifties. I try to sight a rifle in using the 6 o'clock hold on where I want to hit on the target. That way what or where I want to hit is not obscured by any part of the sight. Love your videos here in rural Indiana!! I own the same model 99 you have and what a great instrument it is!!
Interesting video, I love the simplicity of iron sights not to mention the speed and weight difference of not using a scope.
Thanks so much for this excellent video! You've just answered a ton of questions I've always had about iron sights. I have a nice scope for my .308 Savage (with a heavy varmint barrel), but I don't find scopes to be as fun to shoot with as iron sights. I've been wondering what kind of irons to put on my Savage. Now I think I'd like to install something like what you've got on your Ruger Mini-14. Seems incredibly efficient!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
As usual, learned a ton.
Once again proof that Knowledge is useless unless it is shared... Well Done Sir!
I tried aperture sights for the first time last year. It was a carry handle sight on a cheap AR-15. I took it to a long range shooting range and was pinging 18"x18" steel plates at 400 yards with ease. Aperture sights are surprisingly effective.
Yes, they are exceptionally accurate, as they have proven to be for many decades of National Match competitions.
Imagine if this guy was your Grandpa ! You’d be be a great shooter. One of the most interesting and genuinely helpful guys out there. ☝️
Thanks for all you do
After seeing that Savage model 99 up close, all I can say is WOW! Very fine rifle with a really nice stick of walnut that shows some figure in the grain. I am seriously considering getting one of those.....if I can find one!