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Carcano Rifles Serial Numbers

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  • Statement of Purpose This set of WWW pages is dedicated to the Carcano, the main Italian military longarms system from its initial design in 1891 (the ministerial adoption followed in 1892) to the end of World War II and and even longer. The project has been undertaken in order to provide a concentrated online reference to the Carcano, and to dispell a lot of erroneous and non-fact-based.
  • Sep 05, 2020.
  • Carcano is the frequently used name for a series of Italian bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating military rifles and carbines.Introduced in 1891, this rifle was chambered for the rimless 6.5×52mm Carcano cartridge (Cartuccia Modello 1895).
  • In 1933 this scheme was replaced by a system in which rifles were numbered in blocks, or series, of 99,999 each actually 100,000, according to Honeycutt, running from serial numbers 0 through 99,999. Each series was identified by a small Japanese character (kana) placed within a circle to.

A seemingly odd fact has long puzzled me and other collectors of French and Italian rifles. Both nations had armies numbering over a million men in both World Wars I and II. These armies were predominantly infantry and infantrymen are armed with rifles - thus there were certainly over a million French and Italian rifles manufactured. Why, then, are French and Italian sniper rifles apparently absent from collections in this country and even pictures of their soldiers equipped with scope mounted rifles never seen. I have seen two different pictures of French snipers with scoped Lebel 86/93 rifles in trenches but have NEVER seen even one picture of an Italian soldier with a scope mounted rifle.

My father bought me this rifle as a gift, and my first rifle. I'd really appreciate some help. I will upload more pics when I can. There are a ton of insignias on the rifle and all over it. Serial number- XN4344 Year- 1941 Maker- F.N.A. Brescia Range- (Adjustable Sights) 1,500 meters (Fixed) 300 meters Bayonet- Detachable, folding, triangular.

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Install rainbow crack for mac. Dick Hobbs, in his book on the Carcano, states flatly that no telescopically equipped rifles were issued to the Italian Army. He based this statement on his thirty years of collecting data on Carcanos and the fact that he too had never even seen a photo of one in all that time.

Four years ago I was fortunate enough to finally purchase a Lebel sniper to give my collection a representive example of a French sniper rifle (see Issue 61 of the MRJ ) but still had yet to locate or even hear of an Italian example. Then it happened!

Carcano Rifles Serial Numbers

At the last Tulsa Gun Show a man came in carrying a rifle that his next-door neighbor had brought back from his service in W.W. II. It was stated that it came from North Africa and it was accompanied with an Italian pith helmet and a. Fascist Youth Honor Dagger. It was a Model 38 Cavalry carbine in 7.35mm caliber - quite a scarce rifle in itself and one I did not have in my collection. It was in excellent condition, matching, had beautiful bore, an original sling, and the two cleaning rods in the butt trap. Best of all, it had an optically perfect, Beretta made telescopic sniper scope in two left side rail mounted clamp type bases. The scope still had the original rubber eyecup. Could one ask for more? I was not at the show but a friend of mine was and he immediately bought the piece. Happily, he later sold it to me.

Carcano identification

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Terni Rifle Serial Numbers

Install rainbow crack for mac. Dick Hobbs, in his book on the Carcano, states flatly that no telescopically equipped rifles were issued to the Italian Army. He based this statement on his thirty years of collecting data on Carcanos and the fact that he too had never even seen a photo of one in all that time.

Four years ago I was fortunate enough to finally purchase a Lebel sniper to give my collection a representive example of a French sniper rifle (see Issue 61 of the MRJ ) but still had yet to locate or even hear of an Italian example. Then it happened!

Carcano Rifles Serial Numbers

At the last Tulsa Gun Show a man came in carrying a rifle that his next-door neighbor had brought back from his service in W.W. II. It was stated that it came from North Africa and it was accompanied with an Italian pith helmet and a. Fascist Youth Honor Dagger. It was a Model 38 Cavalry carbine in 7.35mm caliber - quite a scarce rifle in itself and one I did not have in my collection. It was in excellent condition, matching, had beautiful bore, an original sling, and the two cleaning rods in the butt trap. Best of all, it had an optically perfect, Beretta made telescopic sniper scope in two left side rail mounted clamp type bases. The scope still had the original rubber eyecup. Could one ask for more? I was not at the show but a friend of mine was and he immediately bought the piece. Happily, he later sold it to me.

Carcano identification

Having been in production for so long and serving both World Wars, the Carcano has gone through a great many changes. Clear identification can be time consuming but there are clear indicators to guide you. This page is not meant to be an exhaustive reference. To analyze your Carcano in depth, please reference the following pages:

Terni Carcano Rifle Serial Numbers

ModelLengthBarrel LengthWeightSights
1891 Fucile Modello 9150.56'30.69'8.44 lbs300m
1891 Cavalry Moschetto Modello 91 da Cavalleria36.25'17.63'6.88 lbs300m
1891 T.S. Moschetto Modello 91 per Truppe Speciali36.31'17.69'6.53 lbs300m
91/24 Moschetto Modello 91/2436.25'17.81'6.53 lbs300m
91/28 Moschetto Modello 91/2836.06'17.94'6.81 lbs300m
38 Fucile Modello 91/3840.12'21.06'7.44 lbs200m
38 Cavalry Moschetto Modello 91/38 Cavalleria36.06'17.63'6.62 lbs200m
38 T.S. Moschetto Modello 91/38 Truppe Speciali36.50'17.75'6.37 lbs200m
1941 Fucile Modello 4146.00'27.19'8.50 lbs300m
Japanese Type I Tipo I50.75'30.75'8.75 lbs400m




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