Bubba Peep Sight for SKS

i find your lack of pictures disturbing...

If you really like the results I'm sure you could order a replacement stock rear sight and have your local TIG welder hook you up with a permanent/more rugger model. Use the JB Weld to try out different aperture sizes, and height placements and when you find what works best have it reproduced as a welded product.

I have done the same thing on my Saiga and a Mosin/Nagant. I just picked up spare rear sights for both rifles at gun shows for less than $10/sight. I had 5mm washers, JB weld and flat black paint already. The peep sights work great for $10

Well, there are peep sights to replace the whole rear sight available through Midway, Brownells, and others, for probably less than the local welding shop wants for flipping the machine on.

On the other hand, I've been considering grabbing a surplus sight and firing up the mill to make a pretty, adjustable one. I figure an aperture rear sight with my duplex crosshair front would make a heck of a nice sight picture.

My understanding of how a peep sight works is that it needs to be close to the shooter's eye to achieve the quick target acquisition that makes them preferable to notch sights. The idea is that you don't have to even think about the rear sight, or try to line it up with anything... your eye automatically centers the front sight in the greatest point of light, which is the center of the aperture.

If I understood you correctly, you just put an aperture on the factory tangent sight located halfway down the rifle. How does this give you any benefit over the notch? It doesn't give you any more sight radius, and it seems like if anything it would obscure your field of vision more. The only difference is that instead of trying to center the front sight in a little square notch, you're trying to center it in a little circle.

I'm not trying to poo-poo your project, but I just don't understand how such a thing would help any.

If I understood you correctly, you just put an aperture on the factory tangent sight located halfway down the rifle. How does this give you any benefit over the notch? It doesn't give you any more sight radius, and it seems like if anything it would obscure your field of vision more. The only difference is that instead of trying to center the front sight in a little square notch, you're trying to center it in a little circle.

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In my--albeit limited and hardly universal--experience, it's still quicker even halfway down the rifle.

You're correct in that it's much preferred close to your eye and you instinctively line it up, but even halfway down, it seems to me to be more akin to 'center it up' instead of 'center it, then align it'. Basically, it kind of tricks your brain into aligning the front sight with one shape (a circle) instead of two (the sides of the notch, then the top).

A company called "mojo sights" makes a rear sight replacement for the SKS:
http://www.mojosights.com/ak47_sks.html

But I really like my Tech-Sight that moves the aperture back to where it belongs, near my eye for maximum benefit. It was worth it for me, but you'll still get an improvement with the aperture located forward, just not as much benefit.

bigfatdave said:

A company called "mojo sights" makes a rear sight replacement for the SKS:
http://www.mojosights.com/ak47_sks.html

But I really like my Tech-Sight that moves the aperture back to where it belongs, near my eye for maximum benefit. It was worth it for me, but you'll still get an improvement with the aperture located forward, just not as much benefit.

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+1 on Tech Sights, I have a set on my 10-22 and they're excellent sights. Installing a "peep" in the SKS's original rear sight location puts it way to far from your eye to get any aperature effect.

I like it Woody. We (particularly me) are so wasteful with $10 here and $20 there... I love the idea of getting what you want for a dime and some time.

... still awaiting pics of this creation.