Help with Erfurt pistol

ithacaartist · 05-12-2013, 10:17 PM

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?

George Anderson · 05-13-2013, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ithacaartist

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?

No the notch began with the first artilleries in 1914. I merely speculated that the pistol could have been a P08 prior to seeing the notch. That speculation was based on the fact that the rear sight is from either a 1917 or 1918 DWM LP08.

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