As usual Ron gave a very good explanation. I'm not an expert at all about this sort of Lugers, but as I read they were created to protect machine guns and artillery unit crews, since the German Army was looking for a shorter weapon than the K98.
It's interesting to know that when you raise the leaf-site to the 800 m position it shows a 7° movement to the left. Apparently this was made on purpose to compensate the rifling on the 200 mm barrel that gives a twist in flight to the bullet, so somehow allows to get a correct point of impact. I' m not so sure that a 9mm fired to 800 meters could penetrate a horses skull or a steel helmet., in fact 800 metres it's a very long distance, I just think at the few times I 've been long range shooting with my Remington rifle and scope, believe me that a 300 meter shot it's already a long distance and it's not that easy at all to get a small target with a 308 Winch. never mind a 9mm.
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