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Anonymous
Peep sights 03/02/26(Mon)01:08:52 No.64918265

Peep sights Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:08:52 No.64918265 [Reply]▶

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Bros why can I not shoot worth a darn with peeps? Conventional notch and post irons I'm pretty good with, pistol and rifle, but I can't seem to get the hang of aperture sights.
Everything I read says my eye should naturally center the front sight in the rear aperture, that I should even forget the rear sight exists, which generally follows, and I feel like all of this is happening but NO.
Anyone else dealt with this and fixed it?
I'm fine with just putting the hours in with them if there not some trick I'm missing, I'm just surprised I didn't intuitively take to them like other types of irons, especially since I've been shooting for years.

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:09:55 No.64918266

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:09:55 No.64918266▶

You’re not chicken winging it

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:10:45 No.64918273

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:10:45 No.64918273▶

>>64918265
Get your eye in closer

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:12:31 No.64918277

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:12:31 No.64918277▶

>>64918265
get your vision checked, especially eye dominance.

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:17:00 No.64918285

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:17:00 No.64918285▶

>>64918265
Did you zero the sights? A lot of knotch and post sights are fixed but peep sights are sometimes adjustable.

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:21:52 No.64918298

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:21:52 No.64918298▶

>>64918265
Your cheek to stock position is changing shot to shot. Get the same point each shot then come back for the next tip.

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:25:20 No.64918307

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:25:20 No.64918307▶

Front post/bead on the target first. Trigger up to the break. Center the sight picture while exhaling and squeeze past break. Easy with paper; takes practice with moving, but basically same.

Get out there with an instructor or vidya onya.

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:30:30 No.64918321

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:30:30 No.64918321▶

>>64918265
>my eye should naturally center the front sight in the rear aperture
I know that's the common description of how to use them, but it turns out that's not actually how peep sights work. It doesn't really matter if the front sight is centered or not, because what peep sights actually do is suppress parallax, you can simply put the post where you want to perforate and you're gtg.
http://www.biathlon.net/Aperture_Sight.pdf

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:32:08 No.64918325

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:32:08 No.64918325▶

>>64918266
I know CWing isn't bad like we were taught, but I'm talking even from a rest.
>>64918273
Will try this
>>64918285
This is across years, and with many different guns.
>>64918298
I don't feel like I am but I'll be more cognizant not to.
>>64918307
This feels like what I'm doing and what I roughly do with irons in general. I think I just need to practice more and be more deliberate till it's muscle memory

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:40:08 No.64918344

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:40:08 No.64918344▶

>>64918321
not op but that's a pretty interesting read anon, had never encountered it in all these years. thanks for the paper.

Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)01:41:07 No.64918346

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:41:07 No.64918346▶

>>64918321
Amazing read, thank you. Maybe I'm just overthinking this.

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