I was at Roscoe Village which is located in Coshocton. Coshocton is an English equivelant to the Shawnee name of the large village located there. Kind of the way the Spanish word vaquero morphed into "buckaro". Anyway the Johnson Humrickson Museum is located there and is a nice stop if you like local pioneer and native history. It is not very big, but has several examples of blackpowder rifles and the like.
Most of the guns were converted from flint lock and seemed to have been left "in the white". They were not brown but had a nice blue-grey patina. Two of them had peep sights. One consisted on a 6 inch long, thin blade with peep on the end, that attached to the barrel up near the hammer. I have see a simialar example on the Log Cabin web site. this sight would not work well on a hooked breach gun and seemed fragile.
The second peep was very interesting and simple. It was a simple round threaded base attached to the tang. The sight itself was simply a large headed screw with a hole drilled threw it. Elevation was adjusted but screwing it in and out, windage must be adjusted via drifting the front site. This was a very small and unabtrusive sight, and something I may make to put on my newly completed Lyman GPR. The big Lyman Peep is nice on my Deerstalker but wouldn't look right on the GPR.
I figured some of you may also be interested in a fairly pc peep site option. I apologize if this is old info...I am fairly new to this site. I'm kicking myself for not taking my camera to snap a few pictures. There was some nice rifles and a sweet set of flint dueling pistols. Two final observations: 1) the calibers were most often around .35 even though the outside of the barrel appeared to be close to 1 inch across the flats and 2) the front sights were very small. They did not appear to stick up more than 1/4 inch.
Most of the guns were converted from flint lock and seemed to have been left "in the white". They were not brown but had a nice blue-grey patina. Two of them had peep sights. One consisted on a 6 inch long, thin blade with peep on the end, that attached to the barrel up near the hammer. I have see a simialar example on the Log Cabin web site. this sight would not work well on a hooked breach gun and seemed fragile.
The second peep was very interesting and simple. It was a simple round threaded base attached to the tang. The sight itself was simply a large headed screw with a hole drilled threw it. Elevation was adjusted but screwing it in and out, windage must be adjusted via drifting the front site. This was a very small and unabtrusive sight, and something I may make to put on my newly completed Lyman GPR. The big Lyman Peep is nice on my Deerstalker but wouldn't look right on the GPR.
I figured some of you may also be interested in a fairly pc peep site option. I apologize if this is old info...I am fairly new to this site. I'm kicking myself for not taking my camera to snap a few pictures. There was some nice rifles and a sweet set of flint dueling pistols. Two final observations: 1) the calibers were most often around .35 even though the outside of the barrel appeared to be close to 1 inch across the flats and 2) the front sights were very small. They did not appear to stick up more than 1/4 inch.
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