Circano rifle Oswalds weapon of choice...

[uncle Alan]

Picked up a serviceable Circano at a flea market today. I have no idea of the caliber but it looks like a .30 caliber more or less. I didn't get a magazine or clip & imagine one would be almost impossible to find.

Any suggestions ?


Uncle Alan needs to know. Thank you .

 

[dalee100]

Hi,

They are an interesting rifle, and often get a bad rap for being inaccurate and with more than it's share of recoil.

Carcano's come in 2 calibers. Either 6.5 or 7.35 and at near .30 cal it sounds like you have the 7.35mm, (.289"). It's loaded via a Mannlicher style enbloc clip that drops out the bottom when spent. I think Privi-Partisan offers brass and loaded ammo. The chargers seem to be going for $15 to $25 for a single charger loaded with 5 rounds of surplus ammo.

dalee

 

[Alvaro Candanedo]

The Manlicher-Carcano rifle (or Modello 91) is supposedly a 6.5x52 caliber (.266/67) rifle. If you can't get a ¿magazine? (do you mean loading clips?) then it's basically a single shot rifle. Don't know anything about performance, terminal ballistics, etc. I'd like to suggest that you check Wikipedia, as a starting point. Good luck.

 

[plumberroy]

Hi,

They are an interesting rifle, and often get a bad rap for being inaccurate and with more than it's share of recoil.

Carcano's come in 2 calibers. Either 6.5 or 7.35 and at near .30 cal it sounds like you have the 7.35mm, (.289"). It's loaded via a Mannlicher style enbloc clip that drops out the bottom when spent. I think Privi-Partisan offers brass and loaded ammo. The chargers seem to be going for $15 to $25 for a single charger loaded with 5 rounds of surplus ammo.

dalee

Between the world wars Italy cut down a bunch of longer WW1 rifles to carbine length thes early rifles were gain twist rifling the twist rate started at the chamber end with a slow 1 turn in 19 and progressed to 1 turn in 8 at the muzzle they cut off the faster twist end of the barrel . 6.5 carcano bullet are long for caliber and need a fast twist to stabilize the bullet Later guns built as carbines with conventional rifling are plenty accurate. with issued sights it will shoot a foot high at 100 yards . Italian soldiers were trained to aim at the belt buckle and it would hit them some where out to 300 meters. buffalo arms make jacketed bullets for the 7.35 (they are actually .298) lee makes dies and it isn't hard to fire form and trim 6.5 carcano brass to make 7.35 brass a couple of clips and you are good to go.
I had a commercially sporterized 7.35 that was given to me because It was "useless" even got 2 clips with it I made brass and ordered dies and bullets and had it shooting in 2 weeks.If I lived where you could hunt deer with a rifle I would have kept it . It was light short and accurate enough for a hundred yard gun
Roy

 

[uncle Alan]

Was at fleamarket &klearned of local shop that can identify caliber,furnish magazine & maybe furnish ammo.

Uncle Alan

 

[CWL]

Go to Numrich Gun Parts for all your gun parts maintenance/replacement needs. They also provide exploded diagrams of all parts.

They sell Carcano ammo clips for $8.95.