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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 ...
The serial-numbered C2766 rifle, sent to Oswald as a surplus advertised "Italian carbine" in 1963, was a short infantry rifle of this type (though technically not a moschetto carbine model), manufactured for the 6.5×52mm cartridge. This 6.5mm Carcano M91/38 was only manufactured for two years, 1940–1941, and discontinued in favor of a new 6 ...
Finland sold all of its approximately 74,000 remaining 7.35 mm M91/38 Carcano rifles on the surplus market. As a consequence, large quantities of surplus Carcanos were sold in the United States and Canada beginning in the 1950s. In Italy, the Polizia di Stato and the Carabinieri retained the Moschetto 38 TS, [9] retiring it from service in 1981 ...
Alteration of the original 6.5×53mmR caliber chamber by re-chambering the rifle barrel with a 6.5x57R [18] (see:6.5×57mm Mauser) chamber reamer has also been done, but the overall length of the original 6.5×53mmR Dutch or Romanian cartridge has to be maintained by seating the projectile more deeply into the cartridge case to fit the original ...
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 ...
Some military surplus dealers also sell military surplus firearms, [2] spare parts, and ammunition alongside surplus uniforms and equipment. Demand for such items comes from various collectors, outdoorsmen, adventurers, hunters, survivalists, and players of airsoft and paintball, as well as others seeking high quality, sturdy, military issue garb.
The Surplus Record has been available online since 1986, [4] when buyers would use 2400-baud modems to access it. Currently, it is the largest online directory in the world for surplus capital equipment. [5] The company started its own online auctions in 1999, [1] [6] a year before it was acquired.
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 ...