Why is does my French Berthier 8mm carbine have flyers always to the right

[jmoore]

Thanks for the follow up and confirmation. Do you you suppose the French had some degree of consternation over the front sight offset requirement?

[rayg]

The flex and harmonics of the barrel when it's fired with a regular power round appears to have been engineered and calculated to shoot center based on the barrels thickness and length dispite the direction of the bore vs sight prior to firing.
I'm no expert but I'm assuming that is based on an expected physics formula. Ray