I am really interested in these sights. I just need to know the concept behind these.

T,

Believe I've noted some confusion on the board between ghost rings and peep sights, especially for double rifles.

Subject to correction, my understanding is that a ghost ring is a relatively large round aperture on the rifle as far back as the geometry of the firearm permits. The only other part of the sight is the front bead. When you look through the aperture, your eye automatically centers the front bead and you place it where you want to hit on the quarry.

The peep sight is also placed as close to the eye as possible. On a double, JJ Perodeau at Champlins replaces the screw that holds the top lever that breaks the barrels with one that has a folding peep mounted on it. By contrast, Bailey Bradshaw in his new doubles, builds a flip-up peep into the rib just at the standing breech. You look through that peep and line up the normal backsight with the front bead down in the vee. The optical effect of the peep is to permit entry of only rays of light that strike the center of your pupil and those, even with our aging eyes, focus better so you get a much clearer sight picture.

Either works, but strikes me that the ghost ring is a little simpler although maybe not as good for shooting over 100 yards.

Regards,
Tim

I think that explains it. Thank You very Much.
George

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although maybe not as good for shooting over 100 yards.

Regards,
Tim

The ghost ring on my service issue M16 worked just fine out to 460m just fine for many, many years.

the M-16 rear sights are "peep sights" not a ghost ring.

an say bwana is you got some great eyes!

That's friggin all, lol.

a ghost ring usually has a slightly larger aperature, and doesn't have a large ring to shield light. The ring on mine are about 1/16" at the most with a 3/32 aperature. When you look through it, since it is out of focus and fairly small, it creates a fuzzy ring. The key is it also creates a dot in the optical center of the ring that is discernable, but only if you are looking for it. Your eye will pick it up and easily center the front sight with the "optical dot".

It's a fast sight that is suprisingly accurate and provides an open sight picture. It's my choice of sights on my own rifles.

Yes , fast and accurate ,100 yds is no problem at all.
My favorite is a 1/8" square front and a 3/16" to 1/4" rear opening with a thin [ghost] ring.Normally you hardly are aware of the ring.