I'm looking for some recommendations for a peep (rear apperature) sight for my T/C Firestorm flintlock.Pennsylvania changed the rule this year so we can use them along with regularV-notch sights. I'veheard they can be much more accurate than V-notch, but you need one with a decent sized hole to gather light.

Anysuggestionsfor a model or just advice in general onthem?

Thanks,
Steven

T/C used to have a nice one that fit right on the tang of a hawkins. you can screw the apture out and use the ghost ring in low light conditions.



Al

That is true and large ones work quite well especally for hunting, check out the ghost peep.
Also becareful where you mount it on a Flinter so the flash wont crud it up to fast. Lee

I use these from this place in Pa with a FL:

http://rmcsports.com/rmcsports_cfmfiles/product.cfm?section=716

Chap Gleason

I like the T/C tang sight. It is close to your eye and pretty well out of the way and protected by the hammer being close to it. For hunting I just use it as a "ghost ring" with the apeture removed.
The hardest part of using a "peep" is learning to forget about the "peep" and just look at the front sight. If you try to center the front sight in the hole you will have accuracy problems. If you look at the front sight and the target things go much better.

The simplist conversion I've seen yet was by a friend whose old eyes weren't doing the trick anymore. He crazy glued a small washer to the rear sight and surprisingly it works very well. It's about a 6 cent fix. You pick up the front sight and it pretty well causes the eye to focus through the hole.
Rock Lock

Thanks for the ideas guys. Alleyyooper, the peep site you have pictured in the one I was interested in. I've email T/C Customer Service to make sure it will fit on my Firestorm before I go an buy it. I got a reply back saying she thought it would, but she is going to check with one of their gunsmiths to make sure.

I believe the firestorm uses the same stock as the NewEnglander. My older NewEnglander was not drilled & tapped for the sight, but newer tangs may be?It uses the rear tang screw, but takes another screw in the center of the tang. I just drilled & tapped a hole for it and it worked out fine. The only fault/complaint I have with the sight is the small hex set screw that locks the elevation adjustment is easily stripped by the hex wrench. T/C sent me a replacement screw, and after I stripped it (not the screw threads - the hex cavity for the wrench) Ithrew it awawand used a cap screw for the lock. (same size screw as T/C uses for the windage adjustment on the sight fits it if I remember right)

I second chapman's suggestion of the V-Peeps. I put them on my Lyman GPR and prefer them to the 57 GPR peep sight or the original semi-buckhorns on the GPR

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/lonewolf5347/P1010007.jpg
I favor the t/c hunter peep on my flinter : I also use a front fiber optic red dot and re-open the rear peep to .090
I also drill and tap 2 holes starting about 1/2 back from the first tang bolt.