Need some help on ammo.

[mmppres]

My Dad got this ammo I can not ID.
BULLET--.299 dia--128gr FMJ --Nickel--case length .220---base
.448--neck OD.328-----Base to Sholder 1.671------stamped on base
sm1--636 Possible 7.35 Carcano




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[Aragorn243]

Carcano ammo does look like that on the bottom.

I guess it didn't come on clips which would be a dead give away.

Looks pretty rough, how many rounds did he get?

[RCS]

SMI is Torino Italy Govt Arsenal

[CINDERS]

SMI = Società Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, Italy. (source International Ammunition Association)

[jonnyc]

You got some Italian 7.35 Terni ammo. Some appears to have been reloaded. Not very shootable, in my humble opinion.

[mmppres]

Thanks Guys
the ammo is in rough shape. Think dad is pulling apart for components.

[CINDERS]

I was sitting here pondering this thread and the ammo in question so I looked up the conversion for the .299 and it came back with 7.59mm so I dug out 14th Ed COTW and sure enough its the Carcano then I thought I would look up the cartridge on the net to see a head stamp at this point the light bulb went on as I have a Carcano full 6 round en-bloc clip sitting on my shelf in the room has the cartridges are all SMI the 932 is that month & year the brass en-bloc's apparently are getting rare now days.

En - Bloc ~ BPD = Bombrini Parodi Delfino, Rome, Italy - 34 ? year of manufacture perhaps!
Cartridge ~ SMI = Società Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, Italy Sept 1932 manufacture ?

Tellya sometimes I am so far behind the band I cannot hear the music.......

[browningautorifle]

sometimes I am so far behind the band I cannot hear the music

But you have a whole clip so...nice.