If you are thinking about "flogging off this old POS" I would not.
I can remember when Walter Craig was selling them for $27.50 a CRATE in the States and the absolute top price in Canada (which I paid) was $12 for ANY Carcano.
In the last 2 years, I have seen the values of many Carcanos double or triple. They are on the way up, mostly because they are the LAST World War One rifle which sells for anything reasonable. An original Carcano Fucile 91 can still be bought for a third the price of an SMLE in comparable condition, a quarter the price of a Gew. 98, a sixth the price of a Springfield.
Your rifle is an original WW1 rifle and it is in nice condition. If I owned it, I would be shooting it and having a lot of fun. JP (on this forum) has CLIPS at a reasonable price and Anthony at Trade-Ex (sponsor: see their button Row 2, second in, at top of this page) has all the brass in the world as well as slugs and dies.
Only PROBLEM with this one is that it still has the original 1917 Barrel....... and those barrels were rifled GAIN-TWIST. Twist at the Muzzle was DOUBLE the rate of twist at the Leade. This could be a problem.
However, with the lessened rate of twist, the little rifle will be well-suited to lighter-weight bullets..... and you can really make a Carcano scream with a 100 or a 120. I would experiment with it, using a fast powder (4198, RL-7) and a 120 FLATbase bullet. Kick anything on its arse hard enough and it will expand right where it is kicked, in this case at the base: bullets actually are PLASTIC at higher pressures....... and any Carcano will handle 40,000 or so easily. It also could be good fun (and accurate shooting) with CAST bullets, which are shorter than jacketed slugs of equal weight.
Don't let the current (still too low) price tempt you. This one could be a BALL of fun.
