The height of the front sight was originally set for a 'zero' of fifty meters but tests showed that the range actually varied between 80 and 120 meters. The front sight was then set for a height of 15.8 +/- 0.3mm to optomise the range. On the 12th of June 1913 the War Ministry ordered that the sights would be changed/corrected concurrent with the addition of the hold open device. For the pistols that already had the hold open, the sight modification was corrected by unit armorers. I would imagine this modification added another stamp to the Luger somewhere.
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Utah, where gun control means a steady trigger pull
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