What Constitutes a Peep Sight and a Tang Sight?

[FishDFly]

What Constitutes/Differentiates a Peep Sight and a Tang Sight? Is it that a tang sights folds and a peep sight does not?

Was wondering.

 

[Old Hawkeye]

They are all actually "Aperture" sights, but generally speaking one mounted on the tang is called a Tang sight, which can be folding or non-folding, & one mounted on the receiver or barrel is called a Peep sight. Or, I guess you could also say a tang mounted peep sight if different from a receiver/barrel mounted peep sight based on it's location & whether it folds or not, and so on, and so on, and so on.........

 

[FishDFly]

Okay.

So I guess a Lyman mounted on the tang becomes a tang sight, not a peep sight.

 

[Nameless Hunter]

I would hazard that a peep sight is a sight with a peep hole, regardless of where it is mounted.
If a sight is designed to be mounted on the tang, then it's a tang sight, regardless of the shape.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

 

[andy52]

Sorted of one and the same just depends where mounted.
With an aperture sight the closer to your eye the better.