anyone tried peep sights on an AK?

I have Tech Sights on my WASR 10/63. It is the best money I have spent on that thing. It basically doubles the sight radius and gives you a type of sight that is much quicker and natural to get sight alignment and sight picture with than the factory tangent sight. I have not hunted with it... mostly just punched paper and banged steel. But I will say that with those sights I can pretty easily put all of my rounds in a man-sized target out to 400 yards from prone unsupported. It also gives you nice easy 1 MOA clicks for windage and elevation right at the rear sight, which makes it much easier to get a good zero on the rifle as compared to the factory sight setup. The only disadvantages is that it is slower to adjust for different distances, since you have to adjust elevation with a bullet tip or other tool. Also, it makes taking off the rear cover harder, since you have to depress the pins on either side of the tech sight base to take it off.

henschman: I might one day buy a Tech Sight for my SKS.

Despite the Norinco SKS having a somewhat stiff trigger, maybe the Tech would help overcompensate to a large degree?

I have the TechSight on my SKS as well and it is a vast improvement. I sold the WASR before TS introduced their version for the AK patterned rifles. TechSights are a low cost high return upgrade.

BTW... If your SKS trigger is lacking, for about $80, the Kivaari trigger job is well worth the investment.

Thanks Omaney. Read a few years ago about Timny Triggers.

I have a Mojo peep rear sight on my Arsenal SLR-101SG.



It definitely helps in shooting tighter groups, despite the distance from my eye.

I tried one on my Arsenal SA-M5 in 5.56mm but zeroing it on that rifle was a problem, so I put the original open sight back on.

I have the Krebs peep sight, and I like it. You don't get the longer sight radius of the Tech Sights, but it is drop in. What I'm interested in checking out are the Meprolight tritium sights.