Hi guys I recently acquired the M38 Breshia. She is really nice and fires well. But in that respect she is like the Mosin If the chamber isn't squeeky clean, you'll wind up doing a lot of bolt slapping. There was no date on her so I wound up looking up some of her parts, along with info I obtained from the man I got her from. New philly sports in Ohio. He knows a lot about Carcanos There isn't a great deal written about them. This site has some info, along with Collect and shoot 2006. Strangely you would think that since Dallas 63 folks would have tried to find out more about the rifle that killed JFK. No I don't believe that my Carcano was that particular type of Cancano Mine is the M38 carbine. That rifle as I understand it was a long rifle. I have the 8mm conversion, and as I understand there were only 16,000 of these made, and she might be something of a rare bird