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Section 6: Rifles Subject: Savage M99 Msg# 1167566
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I learned early on the value of peep sights. If not for my interest in collecting military rifles, which often came with open sights, I wouldn't own a rifle that had any sight but a peep sight. 
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I ended up selling that rifle--not liking buckhorrns, either. I could hit with them, but it took me far too long to line them up. That was good info you got from Dale about aiming with Buckhorns. The model 64 Winchester lever had terrible sights and was the most popular deer rifle in my area. We used to hunt in the Sierras along with way too many hunters. Working in the gun shop and selling a lot of Model 64 rifles with terrible sights and no good way to mount a scope. I started calling them Cowboy guns. So, if we were in camp and heard a string of shots one after another, I would tell my partner that they were probably using a cowboy gun. If we heard one shot, we knew someone probably got a deer. Two shots and it was a possible deer. Three shots or more and it was good-bye deer. When my Marine Corps Uncle came home from WW-2, He bought me a Remington tube fed bolt action 22 rifle. The gun had open sights and the first thing he did was buy me a Lyman Peep Sight. He taught me to shoot and that was the only iron sight I ever used after that. With that peep I could easily outshoot my friends hunting jack rabbits with slide action rifles. Frank |
