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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 6.5 mm Carcano rifle owned by Lee Harvey Oswald On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy , the 35th President of the United States , was assassinated using a 6.5×52mm Carcano Model 38 rifle . In March 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald , using the alias "A. Hidell", purchased by mail order the infantry carbine (described by the Warren Commission as a ...
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).
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 ...
It's generally assumed that Mannlicher derived his 6.5 mm cartridge from an experimental 6.5 mm rimmed Luigi Scotti design, a precursor of the 6.5×52mm Carcano, which was provided to him by the Italian government in 1890 in order to build a rifle for it. [8] [9]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...