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?.......- for example Elmer Keith, in his book 'Keith's Rifles for Large Game' says, when referring to the cocking piece aperture sights: "This sight position is too close to the eye on all rifles of fairly heavy recoil unless the stock be abnormally long."

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I do believe (having read a lot of Elmer Keith over the years) that he was “mostly” referring to the usual tang mounted peep sight on common lever actions......especially uphill shooting can get the tang mounted Lyman or Marble peep pretty close to ones eye.
There is a fair bit of distance eye relief wise comparing those tang sights and a Mauser action cocking piece sight.
I would think one would really have to be crawling the stock to get too close to a Rigby type cocking piece peep, and seems to me that on a heavy “stopper” type of rifle that the perp sight (as opposed to open V ) would be of very dubious advantage at 25-50 yards? Of course if vision limitations require a peep or optical sight, well then a cocking piece sight might be the answer.
- Mike

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