Long Bar Peep Sight

I have in my collection a half stock New England Rifle. The main reason I purchased it was to copy the sight. I just loved it. Well my copy is offered here. One picture shows it on an under hammer rifle I am working on, it's an old Numrich Arms action. Heavily modified, stocked in curly maple. Is there any other wood?
The original rifle has an open sight and a flip up peep all in one. This sight is available in kit form only. The reason being is that it can be used on different styles of rifles.
Note: The peep is fitted and pinned to the long bar, this is done for you.
 

Numrich Underhammer with peep sight
 

The Sight


The Sight bent to fit a T.C. rifle. Bending and fitting of spring and are done by installer.


Open Sight Parts and Soft Spring

First is the T.C. line of side lock rifles. This company uses a two screw mounting for their open sight, no dovetail. So you attach the long bar with screws. Three screws are supplied, two to mount the sight and one to locate and spot one of the two screws.  This is diagramed in the instructions.

The next installation is on any octagon barrel, also Lyman rifles, in this type of mounting you need to put in a dovetail, standard 3/8" and a tapped hole on the top flat. The original rifle pictured has this type of installation (Lyman has a dovetail), it works like this, a pivot hole in the about 1/3 back from the front is drilled in the sight, you drill it, hole is spotted.  I supply the screw.  Next, drill and tap your barrel to accept this screw. At this point you can put the sight focal point where you want it.
Note: The Lyman installation will put the peep farther from your eye, so the peep hole must be enlarged to accommodate.

Try different distances from your eye, the further from your eye the bigger the peep hole. Another scenario for this peep sight is as follows: If your rifle has an open sight that's dovetailed in, what you can do is leave it alone and add another dovetail behind it and use only the the base piece of the the two piece open sight. This is exactly how the sight is used on the the original rifle. Moving side to side gives you your windage adjustment. The top part of this two piece open sight can be used as an open sight on it's own, just cut off the two pins and cut a dovetail on any pistol or rifle.

Note: Have a competent gunsmith drill and tap the pivot hole on top of your barrel.

The kit includes:

• Long bar 14" long wax cast in 8620

• Oval eye piece with a .030 hole in it, this is in 8620 and it's fitted to the long bar  with a 1/16" dowel pin

• A two part open sight (no notch) cast in 8620

• A cast flat spring (6150) this is left soft so you can bend it to fit your long bar. With hardening instructions.

• Sight elevator in 8-32 thread

• 5 screws, one of them is used to locate on T.C. rifles then discarded.