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Is a longer LOP considered appropriate for heavy recoiling rifles?

Geo,

There are all kinds of ways to mount peep sights. I have mounted Redfield 75s, Marble Goss, and Lymans to the top of m/l barrels using a sight bar that screwed to the top of the barrel flat and extended back to the proper distance from the eye over the wrist. But, I don't know if you are looking for a period sight or just something useful that may not necessarily look "right". A good gunsmith can help you with this. Y'all may have to use your imagination in mounting it, but it CAN be done.

NECG (New England Custom Gunsmiths) makes some of the nicest and best made hunting peep sights I have seen. Also have the big moon bead for the front to go with it. Brownell's carries them. They are adjustable, too.

www.newenglandcustomgun.com

SRH

Ryan,

Again, I'm more concerned with plenty of eye relief than long LOP. If the eye relief is enough on the scope, or peeps are used, long LOP isn't necessary.

What do you call heavy? .375 H & H - .416 Rigby class, or .500 NE and up? I don't really have any first hand experience with rifle recoil over that generated by something like a 300 grain bullet at around 2600 fps in a Ruger No. 1, and that is tame by some standards.

Kickingest thing I ever shot was Mossberg synthetic 3 1/2" pump gun with a max turkey load. Once.

SRH

Stan,

Maybe heavy isn�t the right terminology. The rifle in question is a .338 Remington ultra mag. I guess I�m a wimp for complaining but, I think it kicks too damn hard. Possibly better ergonomics would help tame it.

Stan, I appreciate your insight on what my gunsight problem is. A ghost-ring type peep sight may be just what I'm looking for. I checked out the peeps at NECG but can't quite see how any of them would fit on a sxs rib. I have a pretty inventive local gunsmith who might be able to figure something out. His suggestion last I spoke to him about it was a pickitinney (sp?) rail and a hologragh sight. Somehow I just can't see that on an old Sauer capegun. As Muderlak used to say: investigation continues...Geo

RyanF, While some of the heavy calibers have more recoil they are usually built into a heavier rifle to slow it down. However I hated shooting some of the .300mag and .338 stuff because the guns weren't weighted to tame them and they delivered the blow with higher velocity. I agree with you they do hurt. But nobody seems to want to carry a 12 to 14lb gun to soften the blow.

George,
Check this out http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=27447/Product/IMPROVED-PEEP-TANG-SIGHT there are many other options, simply google peep sight.
Steve

Thanks Steve, never thought of a tang mounted arrangement. I'll look into it...Geo

Tang's too skinny for any of the Marble's tang mounted peeps, but the folding leaf sights on my Sauer are 3/8th" tap-in dovetailed mounted in the rib and Brownell's had the Marble's tap-in adj. peep on a 3/8th" dovetail, so I've ordered it. We'll see...Geo

That's Pitcatinny, as in the US arsenal there, in NW New Jersey.

Though it seems you've passed on the tang sight, the advantage it has (besides working) is that it has a classic look. A heck of a lot more consonant with a cape gun than a rail and holo sight.