Interesting Artillery Luger Engineering Feature

ugafx4 · Jun 4, 2020

I was looking at some artillery Lugers at a friends and he goes notice anything about the sight leaf? Blew my mind. Wanted to share in case others have not noticed this. Some serious engineering forethought..... As a thought exercise I will leave the why blank for now but feel free to chime in when you see it. Sorry if this is common knowledge but I had no idea.

Of course the unmarked photos are flipped, I am sorry I can not fix it. Stupid phone orientation.

banjomike · Jun 4, 2020

The first time I noticed the off center rear sight I couldn't believe it. I found out later that it was to compensate for the spin of the 9mm bullet.

ugafx4 · Jun 4, 2020

Bingo. Absolutely crazy.

They are very optimistic with ranges. I've heard in all reality they are able to hit stuff out to about 150.

Hambone · Jun 5, 2020

Hitting cans and such with a good 9mm pistol is not that tough at 100 yds. I’ve shot an Inglis with stock at 100 yds and hitting a man sized torso target at 200 consistently is something I can do. At 500? Uh.

CLG · Jun 5, 2020

A fascinating detail I was totally unaware of. Like Hambone, even I, not a great shot, can hit targets at 100 to 150 yards with my Inglis tangent, but what I’m curious about is at what point does spin deflection become a factor? 300 to 400 yards maybe? And why does the Inglis sight go to 500 meters with no deflection adjustment? At any rate, don’t think I really have to worry about it!

Interesting Artillery Luger Engineering Feature

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