There's a letter from Teddy Roosevelt that says he likes peep sights, but I cannot find a single example of a rifle he owned and used that has peep sights. I've seen an 1894 Winchester that the NRA has or had that has factory sights and a can he used for shooting varmints in his yard on long island so the neighbors couldn't hear (even more based because it was an 1894 and not an 1892 like a normal person, I guess Teddy wanted to feed those gophers .30-30). Cody in Wyoming has or had his 1895 winchester from Africa and that has factory open sights. Pic related is his bubba'd up 1903 with what looks like Winchester sights.There's an 1895 Winchester with a peep that was in a rock island and NRA article, but when you look into it it was a gift he gave to some other officer from the rough riders and not a gun he shot himself. there's an 1886 that was presented to him from winchester for the Africa trip but he never brought it with him so idk if he used it. There's a hawkens rifle that belonged to Kit Carson so I'd assume Kit Carson put on the sights and Teddy didn't add sights to some other famous guy's gun (though that would be based) Teddy is based, he broke up the trusts and made the (((bankers))) hold the bag. if it happened today the (((bankers))) would be (((fairly compensated)))
This is a .405 WCF he took to Africa
the bottom is the woodchuck eliminator 9,000.>“Basically it tells you about the life of Theodore Roosevelt,” explains Senior Curator Phil Schreier (in photo above in coat). “Hunter, Statesman, Soldier. In the first case we had two firearms from his hunting career. First an 1886 Winchester rifle known as the tennis match gun because he used winnings from a tennis match to purchase the gun.”lmao
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I’m not that well versed in civilian arms but possibly a wide variety of site styles were called peep-sights during his time? Like anything with en enclosed rear sight?
>>18289272peep specifically means the rear sight has a top and forms a circle. the rifles shown itt have open sights with no top on the rear sight.This rifle has a rear peep sight and was associated with Teddy, but it was like a dealer made gun made by winchester for his africa trip that he received unsolicited and decided not to bring with him and as far as we know he never bought or used it himself
>>18289306Could he have possibly shot his friends guns or had a traveling companion who carried one? When I’m hunting with my buddies we like to try each others rifles out every once in a while.
>>18289382As far as I know the>teddy likes peepsthing comes from a single letter for one gun https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o293878/
>>18288120>>>/k/
>>18289731/k/ is just yuro no gunz nafo shit now
>>18289733true
>>18289387interesting. no liking mentioned. maybe the giftee expressed a liking of peep sights. also did winchester make a .22 automatic repeating rifle then?
>>18290203to answer myself, apparently the "Winchester Model 1903" was in existence
>>18290203>>18290209yeah they had semi autos around then. I remember reading articles and seeing some video where they had some quote where he said something about peep sights being good for old eyesbut googling that brings up the article with no source and someone on a forum claiming that in his book teddy advocated for open sights with a bead for his shit eyes. Kind of funny. I had sights similar to that but hated them. they were easy to line up but the ones I had weren't a v like he said, they were semi buckhorns and blocked too much of the target
>>18290225the wiki article mentions receiver mounted aperture sights but no picture of the implementation. depending on that could be handy for the bristisher backyard vole control. could sight it in at distances and easily return
>>18290225apparently the implementation. doesn't look particularly handy.
>>18290246>>18290253that's a normal pattern mount. it's unironically better than the other implementations for the time period and is still one of the common mounts for winchester lever guns today. the only one that was arguably better would be a tang mounted peep but that's only better for offhanded target shooting with a light recoiling rifle it's way better than the skinner sights most people buy today which lack a quick elevation adjustment and return to zero
