Rear Sight Variations???
 

I've been here five years and have followed artillery rear sight postings closely, but have not seen this before...

A member posted pics of an artillery rear sight in another thread [first pic below] which I identified as being mis-assembled/modified. I posted pics of two rear sights I had lying in front of me [second pic below] in support of this claim. Am I wrong??? (Hey, it happens!) :D

Now I see a Luger artillery rear sight on GB that is different from all of these [third pic below]...

Besides being fine tune, are there other variations of artillery rear sights???

Can any of these be from something else???

Some have the elevator button on the rear side, and no 'clamps' on the elevator...And the third one has 'scallops' on the sides of the leaf that the non-fine tune does not have...

Did the different manufacturers [2?] have different shape/style rear sights besides fine tune??? Did different years change the shapes/styles of the sights??? :confused:

No responses??? :confused:

Well, I guess nobody knows...Or...

Everybody knows and they think I'm a dummy for asking such a foolish question... :rolleyes:

In any event, I already own the two in the middle (one is on my Nambu and the other is on a Luger) and I won the auction on the third one [green background] so whatever it is it'll go on the Lahti in the other thread... :thumbup:

Still, it would be nice to know why they're all different... :(

Excellant presentation!! ~I'm posting 2 rear attillery sights from an Erfurt and D.W.M. for compairison~They are basically the same~ Eric

Yes...But what are the sights with the elevator button on the right side from??? :confused:

Its mearly the other side of the elevation adjustment pin~ Eric

Not your sights...The ones in my pictures... :rolleyes:

You can see on your last pic , the millings are on both side and the original cursor is reassembled in reverse
It's very common that the teeth break : so the miling on other side is the soluce

I can't see both sides but the premise is quite good...I'll know in a week or so... :thumbup:

Here's the other two pics from the auction...I posted the question on Still's board; maybe this is a common 'fix' for stripped elevator indices...

Might some be reversed for left-handed shooter? ...or was German military so stringent the soldaten were all forced to shoot right-handed?

SH, The "reversed push button" tangent rear sights are original for some long barrelled 1920s rebarrelled lugers from Stoeger &/or Pacific Arms Corp. TH