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The biggest challenges facing the stocked pistol are close eye relief and short sight radius.

Both the Artillery Luger and the 96 with long barrel have the best options going for sight radius, with eye relief best probably with the Artillery Luger with forward mounted tangent sight as far as factory guns are concerned. Maybe the Borchardt was OK, too, but I'll never know!

Those are the best guns going I suppose. The stocked Mauser really handles well indeed, and I can see why Bell liked his in 9mm Export Mauser caliber.

One other great thing the 96 has going for it is its .30 Mauser caliber. That and the very similar 7.62x25 are IMO possibly the two most useful field cartridges made. I'd love to have a stocked 96 for my uses here.

Comparatively short barrelled pistols like the High Power don't benefit much by the stock, though I improved the performance of mine dramatically by reworking the sights. I've wondered if a peep rear would be best.

If I was designing a gun for practical use with a stock I'd want a 7 inch, trim barrel, stock of at least 15 inches and peep rear OR sight mounted at the breech end of the barrel as the Artillery Luger to push it away from the eye a wee bit. With my shoulder support, my 6 inch MK2 Ruger does quite well.

Allowed to dream a bit, I'd love to have a modern, stocked pistol with the stock set up like the old Heckler & Koch VP70 or the Armalite survival .22, ie a modern holster-stock configuration in plastic. With a synthetic frame, the gun would be very light. Sighted right, such a setup would be one of the most useful woods tools ever devised.

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Edited by 9.3x57 (11/06/09 12:10 AM)

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