Interesting thread.

I bought my first Carcano the year before from Ed Page's Hardware in Hargrave, Manitoba (population today circa 50), got white-box ammo from Albion in Peterborough ($6 for 5 boxes; it also fit my VV 70/87/915), but there were no CLIPS in Canadaicon. After the JFK thing, LIFE magazine published photos of LHO's sales slip, so I wrote to Klein's, sent along a dollar and asked for a clip.

Klein's sent me half a dozen UNMARKED blued clips. It was only some time later that I got actual Italianicon clips and made the discovery that they had manufacturers' markings on them!

I still have a couple of those "CIA clips" around somewhere. They worked very well.

What my Father said when he discovered a CARCANO in my closet may not be quoted here. He was okay with Lee-Enfields and Rosses and Winchesters and even Mannlichers, but a CARCANO was the LIMIT.

BTW, everyone wants to know if the 3 rounds could be fired in 6-1/2 seconds. I did it the following Spring with a Model 38 Carbine, offhand, at a cigarette pack at 75 yards, standing. Two hits and a miss, group size about as big as a Cantaloupe. It's not hard; you only have to reload twice. You start with a loaded chamber and leave the last round in the rifle, which is what Oswald did; according to the police report, his rifle had a fired round in the chamber ....IIRC.