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The 6.5×52mm Carcano, also known as the 6.5×52mm Parravicini–Carcano or 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano, is an Italian military 6.5 mm (.268 cal, actually 0.2675 inches) rimless bottle-necked rifle cartridge, developed from 1889 to 1891 and used in the Carcano 1891 rifle and many of its successors. A common synonym in American gun literature ...
6,5 × 52 mm Mannlicher-Carcano; Fucile dell'assassinio di John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Usage on no.wikipedia.org 6,5 × 52 mm Carcano; Usage on ru.wikipedia.org 6,5 × 52 мм Манлихер-Каркано; Орудие убийства Джона Кеннеди
Carcano is the frequently used name for a series of Italian bolt-action, internal box magazine fed, repeating military rifles and carbines. Introduced in 1891, the rifle was chambered for the rimless 6.5×52mm Carcano round ( Cartuccia Modello 1895 ).
The MBT 1925 is fed from Carcano M91 clips that fall out of the bottom when the magazine is empty. The magazine follower closely resembles that of the M91. Despite appearing to be semiautomatic, it actually functions as a straight-pull manually-operated bolt action.
6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: 1892–1950 M1 Garand: Semi-automatic.30-06 Springfield: 1945–1959 Beretta BM-59: Selective fire: 7.62×51mm NATO: 1959–1990 Beretta AR70/90: Selective fire: 5.56×45mm NATO: 1972–present Beretta ARX160: Selective fire: 5.56×45mm NATO: 2008–present (used in compresence with the Beretta AR70/90 Rifle)
The Vetterli rifle used the 10.4mm Vetterli centrefire cartridge, at first loaded with black powder and later with smokeless powder. Some Vetterli rifles would later be converted into 6.5×52mm Carcano during World War I. Despite being supplanted by the Carcano rifle, it continued to see use in Italian service and abroad.
This necessitated the purchase of foreign rifles such as the Karabiner 98k and Vz. 24. [5] Unlike those, the Type I was designed from the ground up for Japanese forces. It was based on the Type 38 rifle and utilized a Carcano action, but retained the Arisaka/Mauser type 5-round box magazine. [6] It was chambered for the 6.5 x 50 mm cartridge. [1]
The PG was a gas-operated rifle fed from a 20-round magazine. It was trialled by the Italian government and sold to the Costa Rican government. The Italian models were semi-automatic only and chambered in 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano, while the Costa Rican models were chambered in 7x57mm Mauser and had an automatic fire mode with a four-round ...