K date Front Sight

[bill m]

Hi All,

The set back front sight as shown in the picture is fairly common and is found usually in the first 3 variations. These are the original barrels. If you look at the barrels on a 1923 commercial DWM you will see that they are the exact same length as these K-date barrels -- if the barrel was cut off flush with the front sight. To make the correct military barrel length they could not cut the barrel flush with the front sight, but had to cut it a little longer. Thus the set back front sight. These had to be old stock barrels or old stock designs. The new correct length barrels had the sight block put on a little farther forward and was cut flush. Not a very good discription of what happened, but hope you get the idea.