I did find a solution of sorts for the Peep sight.. I mounted a Bushnell Trophy Red Dot on the rifle. It was easy to sight in. And I left the front sight in place. I found that if I put the red dot on top of the front sight and that under what I want to shoot.. it is deadly accurate.



I am not a big fan of red dots. But since I do not intend to hunt with this rifle, it works good on the range in nice lighted conditions. I was doing some run and gun shooting and it was really easy to ring steel plates.



The bottom group was the first group I shot. Then I made an adjustment and you can see about 18 rounds at the center group. That top spray was a combat shooting ... where you pull up, center the red dot and just start shooting. Granted the group is not that good, but most of those shoots are at a man sized silhouette. If that paper was a chest cavity, there would be a world of hurt there.

I did shoot at some barn red spinner targets. Because of the light gathering ability of that red dot.. they blended into the woods on me. I painted them white.. and all was forgiven.. from a rest position at 25 yards they were easy. Even at 50 yards I was shooting a 4x4 steel plate. Aim 3/4 up on the plate and tap the trigger twice. Nothing to it.

I finally was shooting a 1 gallon paint can that was swinging free at 100 yards. and could hit that most of the time.

I shot off 555 rounds of the Winchester ammo. One cartridge failed to feed. It did this three times. So I suspected the cartridge. I did manually put it in the action and it fired. So would I blame the rifle of the cartridge? IN this case I am almost sure it was the cartridge.

I never had any jams on the rifle in 555 rounds. That box of ammo went in two days. But it sure was fun to shoot this rifle. I have a 1x20mm Nikon scope I might mount on it, just to see how accurate the rifle really can get. I purchased a tactical 4x32 scope but was thinking of throwing that on my SKS.