I've seen (and owned) several skirmish guns that have the rear notch/peep offset to adjust for windage. I might be guilty of doing it to a few myself. The worst offset correction I ever made was to my Henry repro where the rear peep is way over. (I know the rear sight is in a dovetail, but that looked worse than moving the peep.)
Anyways, I made a fixture that clamps to the barrel on a musket and allows me to set the windage on a dovetailed front sight rather than the rear. I've done it on my Mississippi, my Grandson's SN&WTC Springfield and several friend's guns. A friend of mine, a 50 year skirmisher, told me he had never seen anything like it.
If anyone is interested, I could take some pictures and post them here along with the method of operation.
(I'd do it right now, but I'm feeling lazy this morning, plus I'm interested in how many people would like to see it.)
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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