Carcano at 200yrds

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I was screwing around with my 91/41 at the range with some .264 plinking loads & was somewhat surprised when I was hitting paper. A few weeks before I couldn't even get on paper with either .264 or .268 bullets. I tried the .264 at 50 then 100 yrds, at 50 4 of six where in the black at 100 it was a shotgun pattern. The 100yrd range got busy so we moved out to the 200yr range. I got out my last 20 .268 bullet loads & sent 6 into the gong & 12 into paper. Went to go check the targets expecting to see pristine paper & found the targets below. The fliers are a result of the trigger being too light for my hands( carpole tunnel syn) & it went off before I was ready. Go figure. In case you are wondering the load was 33grns of win 760 over 160 grn hornady carcano bullet. Now I just got to stiffen up the second stage of the trigger a bit.

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I was screwing around with my 91/41 at the range with some .264 plinking loads & was somewhat surprised when I was hitting paper. A few weeks before I couldn't even get on paper with either .264 or .268 bullets. I tried the .264 at 50 then 100 yrds, at 50 4 of six where in the black at 100 it was a shotgun pattern. The 100yrd range got busy so we moved out to the 200yr range. I got out my last 20 .268 bullet loads & sent 6 into the gong & 12 into paper. Went to go check the targets expecting to see pristine paper & found the targets below. The fliers are a result of the trigger being too light for my hands( carpole tunnel syn) & it went off before I was ready. Go figure. In case you are wondering the load was 33grns of win 760 over 160 grn hornady carcano bullet. Now I just got to stiffen up the second stage of the trigger a bit.

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You know what you have to do now.... go slap a scope on it, and try some 200 yd shots and put the 'Kennedy' conspirists to shame by making a few good shots on a pumpkin.....
 
Oswald used the 91/38 Carcano, about 10 inche shorter than the one desporterizer is using. At 100yds my 91/38 Carcano is more accurate than any of my milsurps, and the trigger is featherlight (suits me just fine). I've had no problems hitting a stationary target 3 times in 6 seconds, but this summer I plan to put three targets up, to simulate the movement of the motorcade and shoot them in 6 seconds from my treestand.

THose so-called experts who thought the carcano was too slow and stiff to operate as fast as Oswald did are full of ####.
 
FWIW that particular rifle had a cheap 3/4" diameter scope in a stamped sheet metal mount. Not only was it not zeroed, it couldn't be zeroed. When the scope was mounted, alignment was badly done. Every shot would have required significant "Kentucky windage". I can remember Klein's in Chicago selling these rifles, IIRC they were about $12.95 w/o scope, $19.95 (or $24.95?) with. The ammunition used was US made ball from a post war contract. When the FBI did its workup on the circumstances of the shooting, they used the actual rifle, and shot it repeatedly (didn't use a duplicate rifle and scope). Consequently, the rifle cannot be forensically matched to the recovered bullets.
 
I've been to Dallas and stood on the little X where JFK was shot...Literally 16 inches to the left of the line of fire is another building's window out of which a shot could have been taken...
 
Carcanos are likely the most-underrated milsurps available.

I have a Model 1941 and it likes the Remington 140 SP bulk bullet with 4198 powder...... was getting inch and a quarter, iron sights, last summer, at 100.

Many Carcanos need the larger-diameter bullet, but you can get some of them to work fine with the .264, generally when you use a quick powder to make them obturate properly. Don't bother with those .262" Norwegian RNFMJ slugs you sometimes find..... they are a skirted slug and generally go sideways from a Carcano!
 
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