Need some advice for peep/aperture/ghost-ring sights for my 1895 Marlin. Who makes them and where can I get them? Too much military rifle shooting has spoiled me to peep sights. Thanks for any information you can give me.

Howdy Ray
My family hails from La Junta and have relatives in in Colorado Springs.
OK, I don't have a Marlin, but I do have a handful of Winchesters. I use Lyman, Redfield recieve sights on my lever guns. I've no experience with the newer aperture sights, and tang sights hurt my hand.
I found the Redfields on Ebay.
Jim

I have tried a lot of sight combos but the ones I am using today is the Williams Fire Sight set, you can get them with a very bright front optic sight and then either a rear peep sight or a replacement for the rear sight that drifts into the dovetail and has 2 fiber optic dots for fast pickup. I have them on both my 30-30 & 45-70

My Guide Gun "Mjolnir" wears a Lyman receiver sight and the shortest available Marbles fiber optic bead up front. I opened a skylight in the front sight hood to let in more light while protecting the only plastic on the otherwise blue steel and walnut beauty.

Is there a good internet site where I can find any of these sights? Other than e-bay? Thanks.

XS Sight Systems makes a ghost ring receiver sight and appropriate front sight for the Marlin 95. The rear sight screws into the rear scope mount holes - no gunsmithing needed. You can buy them for $90 at Cabelas.com

My Marlin wears a William's WGRS Firesight. Although I have not had the chance to hunt with it, I like its compactness and looks. Lou

I just ordered and recieved ghost ring sights from Wildwestguns.com. Very impressed. They do lots of work on Marlin 45-70 in Alaska.

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Originally posted by Ray1970:
Is there a good internet site where I can find any of these sights?

I bought mine at www.midwayusa.com

Both My son & I have Marlins in 450 Mar.
We use Brockman Generation III sights.

Here is their web site "http://www.brockmansrifles.com/sight_options.asp". They are great... I have the Tritium Insert.

1895 GG in .450 with XS Ghost Ring sights... They're very sturdy and excellent sights.

I have also spent alot of time shooting military style sights, so I know what you mean. I put a set of the XS ghost ring sights on my guide gun and am using the larger apeture. This setup works great,is very quick to aquire target and quite acurate. XS makes a front sight/ramp with oversize mounting holes to compensate for any windage limits that the rear sight may incounter.

Good luck.

RDH

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and opinions- you guys probably saved me hours of itnernet research! Thanks again.

Ray,

peep sights work very well on levers. As others have mentioned Lyman, Redfield, Williams and Ashley/XS sights are good choices. The Ashley /XS will sit higher though and may need a higher front sight.

The main thing to consider is whether you will be experimenting with loads much or expect to use more than one load. Some are not as easy as others to adjust.

I have an old Lyman on mine (forget the model number) and it was when they were made out of steel - nowadays they make them of aluminium. Its easily adjustable and has markings to help find sight settings. The original front sight works OK too. The Redfield & Williams should be similar.

Joe

So what your saying is even if you have a scope. you can still go with ghost rings.
I'm getting a 1895G; I'm monting a scope on the reciever. low power , would i need ghost rings or a peep.

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So what your saying is even if you have a scope. you can still go with ghost rings.

With a forwarded mounted scout scope you can have iron sights as a backup or as a foul weather alternative (*). One of the reasons I went back to irons only is that the line of sight for irons is too high for my taste when using the XS scout mount. For that matter the scout scope and conventional scopes made me lift my cheek from the stock to find the field of view. The Brockman set up seems needlessly tall as well. Maybe other folks don't have any problem getting a good cheekweld with tall scopes and elevated irons, though I notice Brockman sells a replacement stock with a higher comb...

*It seems to me a fella might mount one of the better red dot sights on the receiver using a single ring and the front half of a two piece set of bases, but I haven't seen it done. It would still make the sight line higher that it can be with just irons...

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Originally posted by spqr:
So what your saying is even if you have a scope. you can still go with ghost rings.
I'm getting a 1895G; I'm monting a scope on the reciever. low power , would i need ghost rings or a peep.

Most commonly this would be done with a forward mounted scope mount. XS has a new longer rail that includes ghost rings as well.

Another way of doing it is to use the peep sight that only uses the rear most hole on the top of the receiver, and shortening the weaver rail to fit just in front of it.

There are two screw holes at the front of the receiver and two at the rear, as well as two on the side. The rail would be mounted using both front and one of the rear holes on the top of the receiver. The peep sight mounts with two screw holes on the side of the receiver, and the rear most hole on the top of the receiver.

I can't remember offhand if it's the william's or lyman sight that uses that configuration.

Ray go to midway usa and under product discription put in marlin 1895. you can see all accesseries for the marlin and if you scroll down near the bottom you can see the two types of williams peep sights they have they sell new for around $35.00 I have used williams on alot of rifles including the 1895 and just love them .