Barrel mounted skinner peep vs receiver mounted peep on takedown

peep sights help those with older or poorer eyes to shoot more accurately without a scope.

I am curious to hear what others will say. The issue with receiver mounted sights and optics a Takedown is that zero can be lost when the barrel nut is adjusted. The peep sight will give you a longer sight radius, but you may find it has lost zero on occasion.

Peep sights offer two advantages.

When used, properly, one advantage is reducing the the number of sights to line up from two to one. Being able to focus solely on the front sight is a huge advantage, all the more so since it's the rear sight that so many of us with old eyes find to be the fuzziest. The barrel mount peep will offer this advantage, but you have to make a conscious effort to look though the sight, same as any other peep, and avoid the temptation to line up the front sight in the center of the peep. This may take a little practice, but it's doable. Have barrel mounted peeps on a couple of rifles.

The other advantage of the peep is the sharpening effect on the front sight. However, this varies with the combination of aperture size and distance of the peep from your eye. The most effective peeps in this regard are peeps closest to your eye, because they allow the use of very small apertures. This enhances the sharpening effect. The farther away from your eye, the less effective since you must use a larger aperture to get a sufficient field of view. In this regard, the barrel mounted peep offers minimal sharpening, if any. You'll need to use a fairly large aperture, usually around .125" as a minimum to get a reasonable field of view and that's not going to do much to sharpen things up.

For me, the big advantage pf the Skinner barrel mount peep is that it allows me to outfit a peep on a rifle that is not set up to take a receiver mounted peep. As I said, I have them on some older rifles. Another plus for the barrel mount peep is that you can usually use the factory front sight. When adding receiver peeps to the 10/22, you usually have to go to a taller front sight and, frankly, getting that factory front sight out on some individual 10/22s can be a real pain.

On the 10/22 with its short barrel, there's also the issue of skimpy sight radius. That's another factor in iron sight effectiveness. A receiver mounted peep would increase sight radius on the 10/22 as well as add some sharpening and thus do a better job of squeezing out accuracy from the 10/22. Unless you plan to take down your 10/22 on a regular basis, I'd opt for the receiver peep, even if it meant some re-sighting in, now and then. Your call, though. Either will work.

I have installed barrel-mounted Skinner aperature sights on two rifles. One is a Marlin 70P Papoose .22LR, and the other is a .54 cal percussion Lyman Trade Rifle muzzleloader. On the Papoose, the rear sight dovetail is on the barrel due to the take-down configuration of the rifle. At 50 yds, (the longest distance I've shot it at) the sight works great. On the muzzleloader, I like the barrel location of the sight better than a tang or rear of the receiver placement. On both sights, I removed the aperature insert and use the sight more like a 'ghost ring'.

Here's a pic of the Marlin...

I have the barrel mounted skinner sight on my 77/44. I think its what they advertise as the barrel mount for a 10/22. It works very well and I didn't have to change out the front sight on the 44. The only thing I would order differently next time is just a completely blued sight I got stainless and with the centre aperture removed which is black/blued the stainless outer ring doesn't stand out as well as a darker colour ring when swinging up on running deer in brush and sunlight.. Just my experience with them. I think he sells a "kit" of different size apertures I would defiantly recommend buy them and work out what actually suits your shooting/ hunting style or needs. I take the supplied centre out for hunting and put it back for plinking.. The guy at skinner sights is very helpful and I do mean very I couldn't speak more highly of him even buying from the other side of the world was easy. The skinner sights on that 77/44 really have made it a pleasure to hunt with.

Wow, thanks all for the experience and excellent education.


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What North Country Gal said: A receiver mounted peep would increase sight radius ...

I put Tech-Sights, front and rear, on my 10/22TD. I measured the sight-radius at 20.275", give or take, certainly far longer than the factory sights.

Neither my daughter nor I have observed anything at all related to loss-of-zero, despite many, many sessions and well north of 10K rounds during the 2.5 years I've owned it. I also take it out and assemble it for "aiming practice", stance, relaxation, etc.

I haven't found it necessary more than a time or two to adjust the tensioner ring since we first took it to the range.

We shot at 50 and 100 several times this year and, although we can't really brag, we quickly and consistently destroyed clay pigeons (grounded) at both distances. Man, we just take it outta' the bag, load it, and call the target. As far as I'm concerned, that baby is sweet and true!

HTH,
Steve in Memphis

i did the tech sights

on my 10/22 and it made a great improvement.