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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.
In March 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald purchased a "6.5 [mm] Italian carbine", later improperly called a Mannlicher–Carcano (although it uses a Mannlicher-style en bloc clip system), through mail order, for $19.95 (equivalent to $183.90 in 2022.) [37] The advertisement only specified a "6.5 Italian Carbine" and actually shows a Carcano model M91 TS ...
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 6.5×54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer cartridge was adopted by the Greek Army, along with the Mannlicher–Schönauer rifle in 1903. From 1906 until the German invasion and capitulation of Greece in April 1941, it was the standard military cartridge of the Greek Army.
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 ...
Mannlicher M1888: Steyr Mannlicher Fegyver- és Gépgyár: 7.92×57mm Mauser 8×50mmR Mannlicher 8×52mmR Mannlicher Austrian Empire Kingdom of Hungary: 1887 Mannlicher M1890 carbine: Steyr Mannlicher: 8×50mmR Mannlicher 7.92×57mm Mauser 8×56mmR Austrian Empire Kingdom of Hungary: 1890 Mannlicher M1893: Steyr Mannlicher: 6.5×53mmR 8×50mmR ...
The Mannlicher M1893 (or M93) is a bolt-action rifle that was the standard service rifle of the Kingdom of Romania from 1893 to 1938. [1] The rifle and its 1892 predecessor were the first repeating rifles to be widely issued in the Romanian military. [ 2 ]
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 ] Approximately 120,000 Type I rifles were produced in 1938 and 1939, with 30,000 each manufactured by Beretta and Fabbrica Nazionale d'Armi, and 60,000 manufactured ...