Any one know where I can get a tang peep sight for a long rifle ?
How did you put the dovetail on it?Muzzleloader Builder Supply carries the Johnson Peep Sight, which has more "traditional" characteristics. I have mounted this on several rifles and they work great. NOT ADJUSTABLE though. They do have a standard aperture threading so I used the Williams Twilight apertures. On the one Hawken flintlock fullstock I built, I did mount a thin dovetail to it. Because it's on a Hawken with a hooked breech, I had to have it a tad forward of where I would usually put it to clear for lifting the barrel out.
If it wouldn't have been for the hooked breech I would have mounted further back...as you can see it could be moved back much more. It did work really well at the location it was though.
How did you put the dovetail on it?
You can make a dovetail out of thin steel stock you can buy at a hardware store, or you might even already have something laying around. I had to thin it down as in my area they didn't have stock thin enough. It kinda looks thicker in the picture than it was. Especially over a breech area it should be as thin as possible. Depends on how much steel in the wall thickness you have to work with and still leave enough to handle the pressures. Anyway, then you can either solder it to the sight base or you could use a couple of very small flat head screws, like 4-40 or smaller, to come up through the bottom of the dovetail (countersunk, of course) and into matching threaded holes you made in the sight base. That's what I did then, but if I were to do it again, I'd limit the footprint of the dovetail to perhaps only 3/8" to minimize the size of the metal removal in that area and solder it onto the sight base.
You can go to the below link, which is the album of pictures of that build, and look at page 6 until you see the sight installation pictures. Again, I'd do it differently today, but that's the way I did it then. It worked perfectly fine and was plenty safe, but I think soldering the dovetail on would be easier and allow for a much smaller dovetail footprint cut into the barrel.
If you double click on any picture in the album, it will show just that picture and comments I may have made on it, then you can move through the pictures one-by-one with the arrows.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/100435142@N08/albums/72157639906287386
Where did you purchase the sight pictured?
I made it. Now that hunting season has passed I'll be finishing up an improved version.Where did you purchase the sight pictured?
Excellent work!I made it. Now that hunting season has passed I'll be finishing up an improved version.
Received one of his sights today , I can see the sight and the squirrel on my 54 Woods Runner ,all I can say is WOW I can see again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Probably illegal for hunting cause it's the closest thing to Leupold on a muzzle loader, just ordered a bigger freezer and a big thank you to the guy who makes/sells them (fast shipping too ) Squirrels are migrating , saw the postal delivery truck stop /Ed
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