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After World War II, Italy replaced its Carcano rifles first with British Lee–Enfields and then with the U.S. .30 caliber (7.62 mm) M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, [9] which the Italians labeled the 'Model 1952 (M52). Finland sold all of its approximately 74,000 remaining 7.35 mm M91/38 Carcano rifles on the surplus market.
This 6.5mm Carcano M91/38 was only manufactured for two years, 1940–1941, and discontinued in favor of a new 6.5mm long rifle, the M91/41, which was made until the end of the war. [ 5 ] The C2766 rifle was a part of surplus rifles sold by the Italian Army, through a tender, to the New York company Adam Consolidated Industries.
Carcano M1891: Carcano M1891: Carcano: 6: 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: 1891: 2,063,750: 3.4 kg: standard service rifle: Carcano M1891 Moschetto da Cavalleria (Cavalry Carbine) Carcano M1891: Carcano: 6: 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: 1893? 3.4 kg: integral, folding bayonet Carcano M1891TS Moschetto per Truppe Speciali (Special Troop Carbine ...
Estimates by Oxfam in 2012 put the production of firearm cartridges at 12 billion per year, [4] ... 704,000 Model 1910, [102] 486,000 ... 333,454 S-prefix serial ...
Carcano: Salvatore Carcano: 6.5×52mm Carcano 7.35×51mm Carcano 6.5×54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka Kingdom of Italy: 1890 Cei-Rigotti: Amerigo Cei-Rigotti 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano 7.65×53mm Mauser Kingdom of Italy: 1900 Chiang Kai-shek rifle: Kung Hsien Hanyang Arsenal Jinling Canton Arsenals 7.92×57mm Mauser China ...
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 ...
Mauser Model 1889; GRC Gewehr 88 Obsolete, used by Volkssturm; Mauser Gewehr 98 Obsolete, used by Volkssturm; Winchester M1895 Obsolete, used by Volkssturm; Mosin–Nagant M1891/30 (Captured from Soviets and designated as "Gewehr 254(r)". Issued due to shortage of rifles in 1944) [248] Carcano M91/41 (Designated as "Gewehr 210(i)".
During World War I, many M1870/87 rifles were converted to share the same 6.5mm round as the primary service rifle, the M1891 Carcano, by adding a 6.5mm barrel lining and a modified M91 Carcano magazine. This barrel sleeving was called the "Salerno method"; The bolt face was also machined to accept the smaller diameter 6.5 mm cartridge head ...