Yep Frank, that's it exactly. You can see in your pic that the very back, bottom corner would contact the front, curved top of the barrel extension--if it were still round.
George Anderson, does this mean that these relief notches began at Erfurt after 1914? My 1917 DWM Artie has a fine tune rear sight. Wasn't 1917 the year when the fine tune front sight was phased out--some had them, some not?
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