Pennsylvania Flintlock season rules

[Smokepole cowboy]

I am trying to get peep sights legalized for use in Pennsylvania’s flintlock season. As the
rules are right now we are limited to"Iron open V or notch sights only.  Fiber optic inserts
permitted.

As we all get older, many of us start to experience farsightedness and the rear sight
becomes fuzzy.  Fiber optic sights do not help with this problem.  Peep sights, while
offering no magnification advantage, solve this problem.  Many of the original flintlocks
from the era had peep tang sights on them.

If you hunt in the PA flintlock season, or ever plan to, please write one of the
commissioners and urge them to consider this. 

A list of the commissioners is available on the PGC website at
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=481&q=151287&pgcNav=|

Pennsylvania Game Commission
2001 Elmerton Avenue
Harrisburg, PA 17110-9797

Thank you.
(Graybeard pre-approved this posting)

[papellet]

Well a much easier fix is to get a v-peep from rmcsports.com, it is legal as it is an open sight. I have switched to this with my old eyes and my friend who is 72 switched to one and he has no problem.

[captchee]

 or move the rear sight back so you can  define it better . . the sight  can be placed anywhere . the farther apart the better

[Encore28]

Well a much easier fix is to get a v-peep from rmcsports.com, it is legal as it is an open sight. I have switched to this with my old eyes and my friend who is 72 switched to one and he has no problem.

He took the words right out of my mouth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Smokepole cowboy]

I have the V peep from RMC.  But it is not the same once you have looked through a full peep mounted on the tang.

[slayer]

I am from PA also and shoot a T/C Hawken flinter with the open sights, but love peep sights. I am too shocked that they don`t allow peeps in the late season, makes no sense. Jack.

[Smokepole cowboy]

Release #011-07

The Board also gave preliminary approval to allow the use of aperture or peep sights during the flintlock muzzleloader season;

[Will Bison]

I don't hunt and I am some distance from PA but tang mounted peep sights are quite correct on ML guns, in fact, peep sights pre-date firearms by hundreds of years.

Bill

[longcaribiner]

The Pa Game Commission recently approved peep sights for flintlocks.

I have an original Kurdish flintlock with hexagonal rifling and a miquelet style lock.  On top the barrel breech is an inverted triangle of iron with three fixed apertures or Peep sight holes.  The rifle has been evaluated by two different museum curators who believe the rifle was made in the mid 1700's.  The rifle was brought back after WW2, by my uncle, who was a Army Meteorologist in Eastern Turkey.