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However, effective April 13, 1962, Crescent Firearms, the wholesale supplier of Italian rifles to Klein's, had been unable to supply Carcano TS carbines, and had switched to surplus Carcano M91/38's, [11] which fired the same 6.5 x 52mm ammunition. The M91/38 rifles were a slightly longer 40.1-inch (102 cm) version of the short infantry Carcano ...
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 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 ...
Mannlicher's Model 1891 rifle was adopted by Romania in 1892 as the Mannlicher M1893 and the Netherlands in 1895. They used the first of a series of 6.5-millimetre (0.26 in) Mannlicher cartridges [1] which became the standard service rifle cartridge for the Romanian Mannlicher M1893 from 1893 to 1938, [2] and the Dutch Geweer M. 95 from 1895 to ...
It is the direct descendant of the 6.5×53mmR rimmed cartridge from the 1891 Mannlicher rifle, designed to function smoothly through the Schönauer's rotary magazine. 6.5 mm bullets are typically known for their high ballistic coefficients and sectional density, which gives them great stability in flight, resistance to wind deflection, and high ...
The 6.5 mm (.264 caliber) has been extremely popular in Europe and especially in the Scandinavian countries and this trend continues today. [5] The 6.5×52mm Carcano, 6.5×53mmR (.256 Mannlicher), 6.5×54mm Mannlicher-Schönauer, 6.5×55mm Swedish Mauser, 6.5×58mmR Krag–Jørgensen and the 6.5×58mm Portuguese are among these cartridges of originally military European origin.
6.5x52mm Carcano: 1887 Kingdom of Italy: M1903 Springfield rifle.30-03.30-06 Springfield. 1903 United States: M1917 Enfield rifle.30-06 Springfield: 1917 United States: M200 Intervention.408 CheyTac: 2001 United States: Mannlicher M1886: 11x58mmR 8x52mmR Mannlicher: 1886 Austrian Empire Kingdom of Hungary: Mannlicher M1888: 8x52mmR Mannlicher ...
In 1938 the Italian army had established the transition from 6.5 mm × 52 mm to the more lethal 7.35 x 51 mm Carcano. In this caliber were constructed the Carcano Mod. 38 and the Armaguerra Mod.39. With the entry of Italy into World War II , being far from complete the conversion to the new caliber, the production probably interrupted to 2,000 ...