Recent Import of Carcano Carbines

[DiMP]

Bumping this thread to see if anyone did anything to adjust their sights? I brought a BIG cardboard to the range the other day to see where I was hitting. Using factory ammo (PPU = undersized) so my group was fairly spread out; I hope once I shoot all that brass empty and reload with appropriate sized cast bullets the group will tighten up. As recommended above, I flipped the sight forward to the "battle sight" position, put the front post at the very bottom of the V-notch, and lined up the top of the V with the bottom of an 8" circle... and hit about 18" above the target at 100 yards.
From my understanding (and, once again stated above) the battle sight is set for 300 yards (or maybe meters?), so it makes sense why it hits way high at 100 yards. Has anyone done anything to modify the sights in anyway? Or am I just stuck aiming well below my intended target?

 

[Dyspnea]

Same experience as you, took my carcano out two days ago, with the same ammo too. Was doing an initial sight in at 25m. With an 8inch target and wasn’t even hitting the target. Adjusted my aim to bottom of target and was still missing. Then I put front sight at the bottom of the v notch and finally hit the top of the target. I called it after that.

But was pondering non permanent ways of adjusting the sights.

 

[sledge]

Adjusting Carcano elevation - the best way to do this is to find a new front sight that has not been ground by Bubba, but good luck with that! Many Carcano front sights have been filed down. I don't understand why you would do that for a rifle that fires high at the 100 with the battle sights but if you look at the photos on the EE many are ground down. My theory is dumb people buying these in the 60'/70's and not understanding you have to "add" to the front sight to bring down the zero.

The easy way is to add some epoxy to the front sight, and if you sand it down nicely and paint it then it will blend in. This will give you a better 100yd zero. But some people think adding expoxy to a milsurp is sacrilege. Since most Carcano sights have been messed with I don't see the harm.

The 6.5 carcano has quite a bit of drop from 100 yards to 300m. I have the Italian military bullet drop somewhere...will have to dig it up. But if you are hitting a foot high at 100 that's great!


I reload my Carcano with .268 lead round nose bullets from JET bullets here in Canada. Much cheaper then those expensive Hornady .267s. I get 2-3" groups all day long. If you are shooting .263 spitzer bullets don't expect good results.

I am sure there are a few hundred Carcano new old stock front sites sitting in a warehouse in Italy somewhere. Hopefully with all these Carcano's flooding the US market someone will think to buy them up and bring them here.

 

[DiMP]

Adjusting Carcano elevation - the best way to do this is to find a new front sight that has not been ground by Bubba, but good luck with that! Many Carcano front sights have been filed down. I don't understand why you would do that for a rifle that fires high at the 100 with the battle sights but if you look at the photos on the EE many are ground down. My theory is dumb people buying these in the 60'/70's and not understanding you have to "add" to the front sight to bring down the zero. The easy way is to add some epoxy to the front sight, and if you sand it down nicely and paint it then it will blend in. This will give you a better 100yd zero. But some people think adding expoxy to a milsurp is sacrilege. Since most Carcano sights have been messed with I don't see the harm.

Looking at my rifle the sight appears intact and original. I knew I would have to either deepen the rear notch, or raise the front sight. I didn't necessarily want to permanently modify the gun by filing down the notch, but maybe adding to the front post would be more "less permanent"

The 6.5 carcano has quite a bit of drop from 100 yards to 300m. I have the Italian military bullet drop somewhere...will have to dig it up. But if you are hitting a foot high at 100 that's great!

I'm glad you think that's great

I reload my Carcano with .268 lead round nose bullets from JET bullets here in Canada. Much cheaper then those expensive Hornady .267s. I get 2-3" groups all day long. If you are shooting .263 spitzer bullets don't expect good results.

I have 200 of the same projectiles ready to load up once I shoot off all my factory stuff to collect the brass
I plan to use Unique powder, so if you know a good loading that works, let me know (I planned to just use the reloading manual minimum)