Daisy Daisy 747 Peep Sight

[Gramps]

My old eyes don't see as good as they use to even with the implants after cataract surgery. Peep sights have their advantages and disadvantages but I liked the one on my Crosman 1322 so I decided to design one for my 747. What I ended up doing was making a plate with the aperture in in it and glued it to the existing blade sight. After getting it sighted in today I was shooting nickel size groups pretty consistently. I designed it in Freecad and 3D printed it.

 

[Dcorvino]

Nice work
Thank you for posting
The peep sight must make the 747 even more enjoyable to shoot
Thank you for posting

Dave

 

[marflow 777]

a better mouse trap has been made
i have been working on a rear sight work around as the rear sights cannot be rebuilt or are there many or any to be found
and that means every 717 or 747 that has a broken rear sight, and there are many, are in trouble

 

[rcarlisle]

Nice work! I have a Gen 1 Marauder that I put a Williams on, but had to design and 3D print a front sight. Things like this keep airguns interesting.

 

[WIndOnYerGrape]

Heres mine

Care to share the STL?

 

[marflow 777]

Yes, Wind that is a mess the solution above is a good idea
it is not perfect but the pistol can be shot
what i did is take a piece of 1/2 x 5/8 aluminum cut and small notch in it and epoxy and Ruger pistol sight on it
what i found is the 1/2 is not enough it needs about .7mm more the 5/8 width is about .4mm to wide but works fine the clam shells hold it very well
the block i built will move up and down for big moves and the sight itself will make fine adjustment
it was a proof of concept, and it will work it looks fine but is it perfect no
now if someone could make the base for the sight by 3D printing that would make so anyone could put the two pieces together

 

[Gramps]

Heres mine

Care to share the STL?

Wow your site looks like it's had a hard life. My peep could easily be made into a notch site. Give me a couple of days and I'll upload the files to Printables

 

[WIndOnYerGrape]

Wow your site looks like it's had a hard life. My peep could easily be made into a notch site. Give me a couple of days and I'll upload the files to Printables

I really appreciate it thank you!

 

[Gramps]

I don't think the rear sight on the 7x7's is that complicated. I don't want to tear either of my sights apart to get all the dimensions. If someone has an extra one that I could get the dimensions from I would try and make all parts.

 

[Gramps]

I uploaded the glue on blade for the 7x7 sight to Printables

 

[jkingrph]

I don't think the rear sight on the 7x7's is that complicated. I don't want to tear either of my sights apart to get all the dimensions. If someone has an extra one that I could get the dimensions from I would try and make all parts.

Sight on the 717 and 747 is plastic. No one who sells parts has them, so they are rather hard to come by. The 777 has a more complicated sight. It has an adjustable width notch , and is all steel.

 

[WIndOnYerGrape]

I uploaded the glue on blade for the 7x7 sight to Printables

Got them, thanks!

Now keep going please

 

[DRose]

Many years ago I needed a rear sight. Made this work with an older RWS pistol rear sight and a trimmed nozzle from a silicon caulk tube.
Made the charging handle lefty friendly too. Dave

 

[Compressorguy]

Nice sight modifications!

 

[DRose]

Rechecked the width to front sight. Matches better than in the photo.

 

[WIndOnYerGrape]

Thanks for the motivation to try something.

Chopped this up in tinkercad, from a Bomar sight stl.

Epoxied it on and should hold me over for now!

 

[marflow 777]

brilliant