Here she is in all her cleaned up glory... lol. it's a 1915 made Carcano M91 Fuclie made at Terni. Been through at least one rebuild.
This is how the rifle came to me (covered in rust and grime) from Schick (thanks man! Was a fun restoration!):
And here's the cleaned up rifle:
Still a little pitting visible on the receiver ring, but not much considering all the rust that was on this rifle. Schick can likely speak to that!
Cocking piece is a WW2 era replacement from some rebuild or other. Bolt is a WW1 bolt though (carcano bolts aren;t generally serialized, so no way to know if it's the original bolt or not.
The "riparazzone" (sp?) crest denoting a rebuild at one time and a force-matched stock also from rebuild. I had to reglue the heel repair - it had come loose.
The handguard was cracked and was missing a sliver of wood so it didn't fit properly. I glued the crack and spliced a piece of european walnut onto the guard to replace the missing bit.
Old arsenal repair
The original trigger guard was badly pitted, but I happened to have a spare WW1 era Terni set of bottom metal in my parts bin in great shape, so I swapped it out. Here's the Terni stamp on the new unit:
This is how the rifle came to me (covered in rust and grime) from Schick (thanks man! Was a fun restoration!):
And here's the cleaned up rifle:
Still a little pitting visible on the receiver ring, but not much considering all the rust that was on this rifle. Schick can likely speak to that!
Cocking piece is a WW2 era replacement from some rebuild or other. Bolt is a WW1 bolt though (carcano bolts aren;t generally serialized, so no way to know if it's the original bolt or not.
The "riparazzone" (sp?) crest denoting a rebuild at one time and a force-matched stock also from rebuild. I had to reglue the heel repair - it had come loose.
The handguard was cracked and was missing a sliver of wood so it didn't fit properly. I glued the crack and spliced a piece of european walnut onto the guard to replace the missing bit.
Old arsenal repair
The original trigger guard was badly pitted, but I happened to have a spare WW1 era Terni set of bottom metal in my parts bin in great shape, so I swapped it out. Here's the Terni stamp on the new unit:
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