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KAR88 pics
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lol, you see the box on the right with the various code options? left click on the bottom one (IMG Code) and it will change to "Copied". then just right clic and paste into the body of your post 
Also, that's a nice little collection of 99s you have there!
Also, that's a nice little collection of 99s you have there!
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Original ammo used the standard 8x57 (8mm Mauser) casing, which was invented for this rifle. Original load was with a 227-grain RN .318" bullet.
This was changed to a 154-grain flatbase pointed bullet (Spitzer) of .323" diameter in 1904.
If your receiver is marked with a letter S above the chamber, then your rifle has been adapted to handle the more modern loading.
I shot a Carcano Cavalry Carbine for some time. Finally, my ears could no longer handle the punishment and the 3-foot fireballs were making everyone else nervous, so I stopped using it. Years later I started to THINK instead of just REACT, loaded up some ammo with a very fast powder. Rsult? A nice-handling and fairly accurate LITTLE rifle. No ear-splitting crashes, no fireballs and group sizes shrank dramatically.
I note that the original First World War German ammunition was loaded with rather a quick Flake-type powder. I think that if I owned one of these little treasures, I would be shooting it with something like Reloader 7 or perhaps even experimenting with 4198. Certainly nothing slower than 3031. Fireballs and ear-splitting crashes are powder burning in the AIR; you want it to burn in the BORE.
Hope this helps.
Lovely little rifles, these are.
This was changed to a 154-grain flatbase pointed bullet (Spitzer) of .323" diameter in 1904.
If your receiver is marked with a letter S above the chamber, then your rifle has been adapted to handle the more modern loading.
I shot a Carcano Cavalry Carbine for some time. Finally, my ears could no longer handle the punishment and the 3-foot fireballs were making everyone else nervous, so I stopped using it. Years later I started to THINK instead of just REACT, loaded up some ammo with a very fast powder. Rsult? A nice-handling and fairly accurate LITTLE rifle. No ear-splitting crashes, no fireballs and group sizes shrank dramatically.
I note that the original First World War German ammunition was loaded with rather a quick Flake-type powder. I think that if I owned one of these little treasures, I would be shooting it with something like Reloader 7 or perhaps even experimenting with 4198. Certainly nothing slower than 3031. Fireballs and ear-splitting crashes are powder burning in the AIR; you want it to burn in the BORE.
Hope this helps.
Lovely little rifles, these are.
It would be a fine little deer rifle for sure, I'd love to fire it, there's a couple of shows coming to Ottawa in April, maybe I could find a clip of ammo for it. I'm a hunter first and a collector of savage 99's, not really a milsurp guy at all.
