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  • The original ghost ring was a thin aperature that screwed into a Williams or Marbles peep sight.

    Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

  • What he did was simple. take out the aperature and take a welders chaulk and rub it on the back side of the sight.

    Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

  • Seizing the edge of the opening in her strong white hands, she deftly furled her wings while Hicks stared, open-mouthed, and raising herself through the aperature, spread them quickly again and soared up, up against the blue sky, until he could see her no longer.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Seizing the sides of the aperature, she fearlessly lowered herself though it until she hung by her hands, then let herself drop.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Seizing the edge of the opening in her strong white hands, she deftly furled her wings while Hicks stared, open-mouthed, and raising herself through the aperature, spread them quickly again and soared up, up against the blue sky, until he could see her no longer.

    "The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

  • It had kind of a big hole (aperature - see a camera guy) and a thin white (kind of eggshell color) ring on the eyeball side.

    Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

  • BubbaAlso try to find a ghost ring for the rear aperature.

    Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

  • I missed out on a really nice (not really great!) buck last year because he came out so late, I couldn't find him in the small aperature of the rear sight.

    Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

  • Jim in MoPeep sights that I have, have a replaceable aperature (the little thing with a hole in it that you screw into the threaded part on the top). well thats availble with some white stuff on it that kind of glows in the dark.

    Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

  • Seizing the sides of the aperature, she fearlessly lowered herself though it until she hung by her hands, then let herself drop.

    "The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

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