Carcano Carabine with folding bayonet

[Aragorn243]

I've been wanting a Carcano for a while for my WWII collection, just havn't found one I was impressed with.

Just spotted one in my local gun shop that I could get for $229 which is in pretty rough condition. As far as I can tell, everything is there, everything functions, the finish has some surface rust but no pitting I can see. The stock is filthy but markings are intact. It has the older style rear sight meaning it's adjustable. If I read the date correct and not sure I did it was a 1936 production. I say that because I'm not sure it is the date stamp. Serial on receiver matches that of the stock but I could find no other numbers that looked like serial numbers or partial numbers anywhere else on the rifle and I think these should be on the bolt somewhere at least. Stock does have two small cracks, one on the upper handguard where the sight flips down into it, the other where it looked like the wood lifted when someone unscrewed and removed the butt stock sling attachment.

As I love cleaning up the beat up rifles, this would fit my "likes" but the price seems pretty high for a carcano. The bore looks great by the way, crisp rifling and clean with no pitting that I can see. Trigger is also very crisp. This is also the first carbine with the folding bayonet I've seen and am wondering if that is why the price is as high as it is. No import marks either.

Can't get pics, I did look on gun broker for some ideas of values and this seems in the ballpark with some lower, some higher.

Any opinions would be welcomed

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