I used to collect artilleries back in the 70's-80's and shot them quite a bit, sometimes at pretty extreme ranges. Living in New Mexico where the wide open lives our shooting range was on the edge of a river valley and we had our targets set up at 400 and 900 yds. The 400yd target was hard to see so we normally shot at the 900yd target. Shooting an artillery at 900yds is an eye opening experience. You wouldn't believe how long it takes for that pokey 9mm bullet to get out there or how accurately you can shoot at that range. I will testify to the accuracy of the sights and while a man sized target is an iffy hit at 900yds it is possible to get them pretty close. At 400yds it was actually possible to nail the steel gong with about 50% of the mag consistantly. All this of course was done using the stock. In my opinion the guns are pretty useable without the stock at closer ranges. They may seem ungainly compared to the 4" barreled lugers but compared to other pistols they are actually not too bad. For long range shooting though the stock is pretty much a must.....
Just my opinions of course based on actual shooting. I never noticed the sights offsetting but if they did than obviously it works.
Frank
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