RE: Shooting open sights???
 

this is what the V peep sight looks like.

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

When you use a sight such as this, do you put the bullseye on top of the front fiberoptic bead, or do you cover the bull with the bead?

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

up to 50 yards , i use dead aim,i cover the target.out to 100yards, i BURY the front fiber sight in bottom of the V-PEEP.this way i can see the target at 100. for deer, i use dead aim.

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

i wish i could learn how to put pictures on here. that was great. i wish that fiber optic front sight would LIGHT UP.they could do this with a watch battery.boy, would they sell those in a heartbeat.

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

txhunter58

There are a couple of schools of thought on that question...
1) 6 o'clock hold where the target sits on top of the front siight
2) modified where the bead cuts part (1/2) of the target
3) cover the target

Target shooting paper is, in my mind, one thing shooting animals is another. If you know the size of your bead you will know the moa at 100 yards - how many inches does the bead cover at a 100. Good shooters - target shooters know this. If you are shooting an official target at a given range with a given weapon the 10 ring will be a given size.

To be honest with you I am working hard to master the 6:00 when shooting at paper but in real life I can not help but fall back to a modified - I want the bullet to hit where I am looking. I am not good at judging sizes of the target at ranges so I hold on the bead on the animal where I want the bullet to hit. If he/she were wearing a bright target for me I might be able to master the 6:00. 80% of my shots are with scopes and my mind functions on the thought where the cross-hairs or bead is that's where the bullet should go. I adjust for range, if needed,by the depth the of the front sight into/or out of the V or U in my case of the rear site - but the bead stays on the POI.

I actually do not knowif this is correct but it has worked for me for seems like a 1000 years.

Hope I have not lead you down the wrong path..

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

With a peep, it is natural for me to cover the target with the front fiberoptic. This seems to work well for me out to about 80-100 yards, but beyond that it just seems to cover too much of the target. Therefore, I have been trying to set the target on top of the bead. Sort of seems like you could be more accurate as the yardage increases beyond about 80 yards, but don't know if I can get used to it.

I think I need to draw some circles of known width and put them at 50, 75, 100, and 125 and see how much my front sight really covers.

Thanks for the info

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

txhunter58

This really might be a good idea if you are going to cover.

Another thing that helps me at longer ranges is knowing what the bullet is going to do. I'm a visual learner, so I try to shoot the ranges and actually see where the bullet strikes. Anything of any range out there beyond 125, whetherit is flat, uphill, ordownhill, I know that I need to do some compensating and then knowing the average size of the body of the animal I am shooting at, whether it be a whitetail or an elk, my mind somehow tells me what to do. It was a lot less confusing when I was hunting with the 270 or the 300 win mag - with those two flat shooters all I had to do is drop the scope on the animal and pull the trigger. Now that I hunt totally with ML's I am getting better at making those calculations.

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

Through the peep, my .038" green fiber optic front sight covers about 5" at 100 yards. Even at 200 yards, it's not too big for an elk. Amazing how well your eye knows where the middle of the "dot" is.

RE: Shooting open sights???
 

with the V-PEEP you can do 2 things, you can use the opening in peep at top and sight over the front fiber which will let you see target at 100 yds.this will center the sight in the peep as normal is done, you could do that. i am trying to place the front sightdown in bottom of the v-peep or as i said,BURY in bottom ,then i use the opening in v-peep to see target, so far so good. look at picture of the v-peep that cayagug put on. see top is cut out.you could sight right over it but i like BURY in bottom ,so far. still testing sight but will be able to give more as winter has set in and i am done until april. but so far, this sight is better than anything i have used so far. and its LEGAL in pa. as it is not a FULL PEEP,its a v-peep, ha. good day.