A bent bolt in an Infantry Rifle is not a desired trait by collectors. Many, if not most Infantry Rifle Carcanos encountered today will have these bent bolts. Unscrupulous importers and dealers in those years sold many Carcanos as "axis mausers" and bent the bolt handles to more closely resemble German rifles of the WW2 era. After the Second World War, Italy refurbished most of the rifles in store only to surplus most of them without ever being re-issued when they adopted the M1 Garand and various modifications of that rifle based on NATO calibers.
Most of the Carcano 1891/41 rifles encountered on the surplus market today were imported to North America in the 1960's. Terni (aka Terni, FAT) from 1941 to 1945 and Armaguerra Cremona from 1941 to 1944.ġ. The M1891/41 rifle was only manufactured at two arsenals, R.E. The second type is a close copy of the German K98k sling as depicted on the above rifle. The first pattern is virtually identical to a WW1 era sling with tear-dropped shaped eye holes and brass stud keepers. Two patterns of sling were commonly issued with the 1941 version of the Infantry rifle. The above rifle is one such example and the marking can be seen in the gallery on the barrel shank.
The best marksmen in Italian units were able to select from these more accurate rifles to act in the sniping role in the field. Instead, those rifles demonstrating above average accuracy were stamped with the Tiro a Segno Nazionale marking consisting of two crossed rifles superimposing a bulls-eye target stamped on barrel. Unlike in the first world war, Italy did not issue scoped sniper rifles during the Second World War for sniping. Aside from a more compact rear sight, standard non-progressive rifling, and a barrel slightly shorter than the older infantry rifle, the 1941 adaptation is little changed from the pre-WW1 era weapon - it was even issued with the same bayonet. This led to the adoption of the M1891/41 Fucile as pictured above.
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Despite the fact that the older M1891 infantry rifle was mostly being replaced by M1891/38 series carbines, performance in North African campaigns convinced fascist Italy to begin manufacturing the longer type infantry rifle once more.
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Some shorter versions of the Carcano rifle were in service and the rapid onset of the war had shelved Italy's plans to update the rifle's caliber to 7,35x51. The Carcano M1891 gave excellent service throughout the First Word War where Italy participated on the Allied side, fighting mainly against Austria.īy the time of the Second World War, not much about the Carcano had changed. It was robust and the bolt could be disassembled without any tools. It had, at the time, the smallest caliber of any military rifle and held six shots in a rapidly changeable charger clip, while most of its contemporaries used either a tubular magazine of a 5 round charger clip. Improvements in propellant design would render this feature unnecessary on future models.Īt the time of its adoption, the Carcano was a revolutionary rifle. The new Modelo 1891 Fucile incorporated a gain twist barrel to reduce throat erosion when using Cordite and the early Dynamit Nobel propellants which burned excessively hot. 1888 charger-loaded central magazine of Mannlicher origin and to pay Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher the appropriate royalties (300,000 Lire). In 1891, the commission decided to combine an Italian state factory rifle model made by the Torino factory with the German Mod. Sensibly, a replacement was sought and a commission was formed to exhaustively test proposed replacement arms.
In the late 1880's, the Italian were mostly equipping their armed forces with the venerable M1870 and M1870/87 Vetterli(-Vitali)s and they were no match for the newer high-velocity repeating rifles. Note: Pics of rifle provided courtesy of moderator Claven2.įollowing France's adoption of the Model 1886 Lebel and its accompanying revolutionary small-bore, high velocity 8mm Lebel cartridge, the whole of Europe (and indeed the world) jumped into an arms race to replace their huge inventories of older, often single-loaded, large caliber, low velocity arms. The Carcano: Italy's Military Rifle by Hobbs, Richard J. 4 groove, right hand twist.īarrel Length.
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