Look for a Model 41. Very few built, but a lot of them seem to have turned up in Canada.
I have one that regularly gives me 1 MOA, and that's with 4198 powder and a Remington bulk-pack 140 flatbase: wrong powder and wrong diameter bulet, but the rifle likes it. Paid $56 for the rifle, several years ago, in super condition. Any time I can get a genuine 1-MOA rifle for $56, I'll take it. Price on this model today seems to be about $250 - $325.... and no higher. Thing has a 27-inch barrel, is rather on the lightweight side, loads fast, good trigger. Apart from sheer horsepower, I would not feel underequipped with a Model 41: cartridge develops about the power of a .30-30 but is far more accurate, a MUCH better performer in bush. The Italians kept some Carcanos up until the 1960s because they would outshoot their Garands any time at all.
Action is a modified Mauser type with a Mannlicher magazine. Action itself is VERY stiff; I have no idea why they aren't being used for match rifles. Finish often is not up to German or American standards, but that is judging a book by the cover. The money went into quality of steel and manufacture. BTW, Model 41 is the only Carcano which was designed with constant-twist rifling; all the others used gain-twist for most of their manufacture. Barrels have wide lands and grooves, 4 each, and last a long time.
Carbines and Truppi Speziali rifles were LOUD but the longr versions were very docile. Funny, but that's about the ONLY thing I can find to criticise about the Carcano. They are dandy rifles.
Get one. Get two. Get a dozen. Get some brass and slugs (Trade-Ex) and some clips (JP has some), a set of dies and you're ready to go. Original Italian powder was a type of Ballistite: we can't get it. I would go to 3031 or 4895 for the long rifles but have used 4198 with success in the Carbines and TS models.
Have fun! That's what it's all about.
Hope this helps.
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