I know a few years ago. might have been a year ago I cannot remember. I put peep sights on my marlin trapper project and said that was good enough. Well last weekend a good friend had came into ownership of a 2-7 burris "mini" scope. he knew I like older gloss scopes and offered it to me. I said sure why not i can find a home for it. This year i did some work to a couple guns. one was a sporterized mauser that i nicknamed helga because she was kind of a beotch to shoot in and work up loads for. that's a story for another time however. I had thought about putting it on that gun.
I then remembered the pricy talley quick release rings I bought for another lever project that had a peep integrated into the scope rail. I purchased the wrong rings and they kinda set in a box. Knowing that I had a set of rings and a nice compact scope to stick on a lever i got to thinking how nice it would be to have a similar setup my 45/70 has but with my trapper.
So i ordered another sight rail with peep intergrated. I was worried that the peep height would be a problem since the scope tube mounts over the peep. The front sight was pretty tall anyhow and i could most likely file it down to fit the height of the peep.
The rail with peep showed up almost a week early. USPS sucks with updating their status let alone knowing when something is going to show up. Taking the new rail out of the package and then measuring from the top of the peep and comparing it to the peep i took off I was about .08 off. but I could take that off the front sight. The plan was to mount scope get the peep as high as it could go remeasure and then trim that off the top of the blade sight.
After a few installs and reinstalls i ended up having to take about .055 off the top of the blade sight.
Yesterday morn i went to the range and got it rough sighted in. I was a little upset the groups were not better but honestly how much should i ask of a lever gun. I took the scope off and shot the peep only as well and was greeted with a nice little group similar to what the scope provided. I still need to "cold bore" sight the gun in but its close. I will probably do that this weekend. Rifle isnt too far away and this gun is still pretty nice to carry.