Artillery Rear Sights
 

Greetings!
I have been lurking here for awhile and have come up with a question or two... I have examined a couple 1917 DWM Artilleries, and noticed as the rear sights are raised to their high limit, they shift to the left because the pivot pin is lower on the left side. Is this to compensate for the right-hand twist in the rifling? Does the rifling direction make the bullets crawl in that direction? I've definitely gotten an education reading posts on this site.
Thanks in advance!

Hi Powdercrank, I don't own an Artillery yet, but I have heard about the sight going to the left as you discribe--and that it is by design. I'm sure some of our more knowledgable members will come forward with an explanation.
DougT

No explanation is necessary... Powdercrank has it all figured out... the rear sight moves in the direction noted to compensate for bullet impact movement at the long ranges...

It is a little disconcerting at first... that is, until you use the rear sight with a shoulder stock. It will quickly become apparent that this design feature is not a mistake by observing how close the impact is to the point of aim with this unusual sight picture... This is an incredible design that is 90 years old!

Hello Powdercrank,
Let me say that the Artillery rear sight is a beautiful item. You mention about rear sights of 1917 Artillery so maybe you do not see the screw used to increase the accuracy when used for long-range shooting.
According to the LP08 manual, this beautiful pistol was effective against â??head-sizeâ?� target at a distance of 600 meters.
Starting from the 1917 the rear screw is no longer implemented.
If you want to have further information about the LP08 history you can have a look at my web site where an article is available that quickly describes the history of this beautiful pistol.
Ciao
Mauro
http://lugerlp08.free.fr/

...and let me further recommend that you buy Mauro's excellent book on the Artillery Luger... Even though the book was authored in his native language (Italian), all of the photographs are captioned in English.

John,
Thank you for your kindness and for your comment on my book.
Ciao
mauro

Hello Mauro,

I have your book and am ENJOYING it VERY much.
I have bought a Italian /english dictionary so I can better use the book.

Thank you for signing it for me.
I meant to send you a note and every time I started to write it, something or sombody(wife) had some rush thing for me to do.

Thanks again for your help,
broomhandle /Frank