"Everybody knows" that Carcanos are junk. Well, everyone except me, it seems.
I have one here, a very nice, completely original Fucile 91, built at Terni in 1918, excellent bore, great shooter..... and it has the Marksman's marking on the barrel, meaning that it PROVED itself even before it left the Factory. It was on a farm near here and the owner was afraid to keep it during the Registry.... and dropping it at my place was 5 miles less driving than taking it to the Dump.
I also have enough of an 1896 Sparkbrook NAVY LLE (with chopped Barrel) to start building a Converted SMLE from, also with an excellent barrel. This one came from basement junk which someone was helping to remove.... to the Dump just South of here. THIS one, and a few of its friends, are why I am still scrounging the junk tables at gun shows.
There is also a beat-half-to-death Lee-Metford Mark II here which I picked up at a gun show for $40. It has been Bubba'd, but Bubba in this case was named Alfred George Parker, who installed his own 23-inch heavy barrel onto it, added a gold front sight and punched his own serial number onto it: 0019. Yes, the 19th sporter built by their shop, about 1920! Forty bucks.
Sometimes you REALLY have to keep your eyes open.
And Rosses are like that: finest rifles ever built.... but so few people really KNOW them..... and so very many THINK they do.
I have one here, a very nice, completely original Fucile 91, built at Terni in 1918, excellent bore, great shooter..... and it has the Marksman's marking on the barrel, meaning that it PROVED itself even before it left the Factory. It was on a farm near here and the owner was afraid to keep it during the Registry.... and dropping it at my place was 5 miles less driving than taking it to the Dump.
I also have enough of an 1896 Sparkbrook NAVY LLE (with chopped Barrel) to start building a Converted SMLE from, also with an excellent barrel. This one came from basement junk which someone was helping to remove.... to the Dump just South of here. THIS one, and a few of its friends, are why I am still scrounging the junk tables at gun shows.
There is also a beat-half-to-death Lee-Metford Mark II here which I picked up at a gun show for $40. It has been Bubba'd, but Bubba in this case was named Alfred George Parker, who installed his own 23-inch heavy barrel onto it, added a gold front sight and punched his own serial number onto it: 0019. Yes, the 19th sporter built by their shop, about 1920! Forty bucks.
Sometimes you REALLY have to keep your eyes open.
And Rosses are like that: finest rifles ever built.... but so few people really KNOW them..... and so very many THINK they do.
