I have been using 4198 in my Shorties, with good results, also 4895 in my Model 1941, which is shooting exactly 1 inch at 100 with Remington bulk-pack 264-140 flatbase slugs.

I am interested in what you are saying about your "clunker". This could be a Cooey Carcano, also called an "Eaton's Carcano": built in Toronto, Ontario, Canadaicon by the H.W. Cooey company on contract for the T. Eaton mail-order company. This is quite an (in)famous rifle in Canada and is responsible for giving the entire 6.5mm bore size a black eye for many, many years. There are all sorts of awful tales of mayhem, mangling and murder with these rifles, but I have been able to run down only ONE actual case of injury. Special ammunition was made for these for a short time (pink box of 20, headstamp just "R" at noon and "6.5mm" at 6 'clock). These were built in the 1920s from surplus WW1 rifles and the extended-barrel-stub construction is actually stronger than it looks. I picked up a wreck about 20 years ago, just to have an example of this famous firearms failure, picked up a really nice one at an auction just a couple of weeks ago: 50 bucks! Part of the problem with these seems to have been that 6.5MS ammo was available and people were cramming it into the Carcano chambers and getting really high pressures. I have 2 rounds of the 'special' ammunition for these and cannot tell it from Carcano. The rifles were called back on a moneyback basis any years ago. There never were a lot, very few survive and even fewer are in shooting condition. Both of mine have double set-triggers.

Good to see more than just my old relics still out on the range.
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