Out Of Sights

Sergio Natali · 09-01-2013, 08:30 AM

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.

09-01-2013, 08:30 AM	#12
Sergio Natali User Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Somewhere in Northern Italy Posts: 2,646 Thanks: 1,087 Thanked 1,783 Times in 1,007 Posts	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.