Carcano cavarly captured

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Hi,

i have this rifle for few years now. When i bought it , i didnt noticed it had a very faint german depot marking on stock. Later, when reading Arundel book about carcano, i noticed i had a rifle with a similar serial number in the captured by germans section of the book. From what i read, they were captured at the FNA-B arsenal in 1943 and later used by volksturm. I like the scars on stock...











 
OP did you say scars???? That is one of the cleanest little Carcano carbines I have seen. Especially as it is capture marked. The Volksturm weren't overly enthusiastic about continuing with last ditch fighting where there was a good chance of being killed, especially with a rifle they considered to be inferior to their Mausers. I don't agree with that theory by the way. Anyway they weren't careful with their equipment and it usually was worse for wear even though it was used very little.

I have one of the little carbines that was made for the axis forces by Steyr in 8x57. It requires special chargers and is a bear to shoot. The metal is as new but the stock doesn't have a single spot on it that isn't dented or scraped.
 
Nabs said:
Very nice carbine, what is the maker and year on the barrel ?
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The maker is FNA-B (Brescia). There is no year on the receiver, but they were made in 1943 according to serial number. Only Brescia continued to make ajustable rear sight on their 91/38 cavalry carbine. i have read they were captured at the arsenal during Italian 1943 armistice
 
Santoneski said:
They have fixed sights correct? Didn't a lot of
These become eatons/cooey carcAnos
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The Cooey carcanos are sportered 1891 long rifles with new barrels screwed and secured into the remains of the old barrel stub. A cool fact with Italian carcanos is if you look at the bottom of the receiver, you can often find the month and year of make that it was made.
 
Santoneski said:
They have fixed sights correct? Didn't a lot of
These become eatons/cooey carcAnos
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Most of the 91/38 cavalry have a fixed rear sight, excepted the one made by Brescia that kept ajustable rear sight. I dont know too much about the eatons/cooey conversions, but i think they used others models of carcano to make them
 
bearhunter said:
I have one of the little carbines that was made for the axis forces by Steyr in 8x57. It requires special chargers and is a bear to shoot. The metal is as new but the stock doesn't have a single spot on it that isn't dented or scraped.
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Are you talking about the M95M? I also have one all matching. THese are fun to shoot!
 
As a side note, the COOEY/EATON'S (I miss their catalogs !!!! you could actually buy lots of rifles from them) Were 6.5x54 manlisher-schnauzer calibre...C.I.L. Produced very accurate ammo. I have a Greek converted model 91 that can shoot 6.5x54 and still shoots the 6.5x52 carcano round as well.. The Germans also converted many Carcano captured rifles and Stamped the stocks showing either round could be fired safely. most GREEK conversions have a large ''E'' with three large dots in a triangle stamped on the top of barrel/receiver.
Like the Russian SKS, the CARCANO model91 and model 41 long rifles are very well made firearms... unfortunately I fell for the nonsence about them being JUNK and for many years,missed out on buying some fine examples as dirt cheap prices......
 
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