Uh, no. You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. I have 10 Carcanos and would set all 10 aside to get to something, anything, that was behind them if I had need to go into a battle. I like them or I wouldn't have 10 of them but they are the hardest to operate and least accurate of all the rifles in my collection and that includes several black powder rifles.