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Unread 03-14-2014, 09:37 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by John Sabato View Post
...so if you make it flat...
Hmmmm...I wasn't actually going to make a new artillery sight base (like I do for the C96 Mauser sight), I just wanted to know for when I cut the dovetail in the barrel...But a solid base for the Luger leaf (rather than the hollow base) is doable...A 'coffin' sight base, with a floor, that would be dovetailed externally...So the flat spring for the leaf would be contained inside the 'coffin'...

That is exactly how my C96 rear sight (on my Luger barrel) is made...

I'll have to think on that...
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